Senior Backend Software Engineer (Full-Time, Remote) — Canada

autoscale ventures • Canada

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AI Summary

Lead the design, development, and maintenance of scalable backend systems for data-heavy products like APIs, crawlers, and market feeds at AutoScale Ventures. Own system architecture, mentorship, and long-term reliability while collaborating with cross-functional teams. Requires 5+ years of backend engineering experience with a focus on performance, scalability, and system ownership.

Key Highlights

Own end-to-end backend systems from design to production and long-term maintenance

Lead architectural improvements and mentorship for mid/senior engineers

Work in a fully remote, globally distributed team with startup-like autonomy

Key Responsibilities

Design, build, and evolve scalable backend systems for data-heavy production products (e.g., market feeds, crawlers, APIs, and data pipelines)

Take full ownership of major backend initiatives across their lifecycle, including design, development, rollout, and long-term maintenance

Write and maintain scalable APIs and backend services used at meaningful production scale

Lead architectural improvements and redesigns to enhance reliability, performance, and maintainability

Break down complex designs into executable components and delegate effectively to other engineers

Collaborate with leadership and senior engineers on technical direction and system strategy

Mentor developers through code reviews, design discussions, and best practices

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Technical Skills Required

Backend Systems Design API Development Scalable Infrastructure

Benefits & Perks

Fully remote work with flexibility to work from anywhere in Canada

Healthcare coverage for you and your family

Performance-based profit-sharing tied to company financials

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Nice to Have

Python experience

Experience redesigning or evolving legacy systems

Background in data-heavy systems (crawlers, feeds, ingestion pipelines, analytics backends)

Infrastructure or scaling experience (high-throughput systems, reliability, performance tuning)

Experience mentoring mid-level and senior developers

Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Copilot, ChatGPT)

Job Description

Work Schedule: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM PSTAt AutoScale Ventures, we build large-scale systems behind products like VinAudit.ca (vehicle history and data) and SquidProxies.com (proxy infrastructure). We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to design, build, and evolve the backend systems that power these data-heavy products in production.You'll be designing and developing critical backend components and guiding other engineers through execution. If you enjoy owning systems end to end, from design through long-term support, this role is for you.

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