Remote Senior Software Engineer, Backend - Cars/Agency

Description:

• The Senior Software Engineer, Backend position is with the Cars Agency team in British Columbia, focusing on designing, implementing, deploying, and operating complex backend systems for car rentals.
• Responsibilities include building and maintaining a robust infrastructure supporting millions of bookings annually, solving technical and software architecture challenges, contributing to a microservices architecture system, collaborating with diverse teams, and automating operational processes.
• The ideal candidate should have experience with microservices architecture, API integrations, API design, data-heavy platforms, gRPC/Protobuf, functional programming, cloud platforms (preferably GCP), Kubernetes, distributed systems, and backend engineering at scale.
• Other requirements include a focus on quality, cross-functional teamwork, and potentially experience in the travel industry.

Requirements:

• Solid understanding of microservices architecture and ability to develop Scala microservices, experience with JVM preferred
• Experience in building and managing external API integrations
• Strong ability to design APIs
• Professional experience in developing data-heavy platforms or APIs
• Familiarity with gRPC/Protobuf
• Preferably experienced in functional programming (Java, Scala, Haskell, F#, etc.)
• Understanding of Cloud Platforms, GCP knowledge is a plus
• Knowledge and experience with Kubernetes
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and architectural decisions affecting performance and maintainability
• Previous success in backend engineering roles delivering user experience at scale
• Focus on quality, writing testable code, and scalability
• Ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams
• Potential experience in the travel industry

Benefits:

• Competitive salary and pre-IPO equity packages in a well-funded startup
• 100% coverage of group insurance premiums by Hopper
• Life, short term, and long term disability coverage
• Health Savings Account (HSA) for medical and dental expenses
• Access to telemedicine services through Dialogue
• RRSP plan with automatic pre-tax withdrawals
• Generous parental leave policy
• Unlimited paid time off
• Travel stipend and work-from-home stipend
• Access to co-working space and entrepreneurial culture
• Open communication with management and leadership
• Opportunity to work in small, dynamic teams with significant impact