Lead Backend Developer

Movable Ink

📍 toronto, on, Canada

Full-time Other-General Posted May 29, 2026

Job Description

Requirements

  • 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a strong track record of building and operating backend or platform systems in production
  • Significant experience designing and operating distributed, event-driven, or high-scale backend systems
  • Strong architectural judgment around stateful services, real-time or near-real-time decisioning, asynchronous processing, system reliability, and production operations
  • Hands‑on technical leadership experience: you are comfortable being the go‑to person for unblocking, reviewing, mentoring, and leading complex technical initiatives end‑to‑end
  • Experience translating ambiguous product goals into pragmatic technical designs and incremental execution plans
  • Familiarity with systems that process high‑volume event data, such as event stream processing, behavioral analytics, pub/sub systems, workflow systems, rule engines, or decisioning engines
  • Str...