Backend Engineer

The salary range for this role is $99,000 (CAD) - $130,000 (CAD) / year + bonus

Numerator is looking for a passionate Backend Engineer to join our growing Research and Development team. This is a unique opportunity where you will get a chance to work with an established and rapidly evolving platform that handles millions of requests and massive amounts of events, and other data.

In this position, you will be responsible for taking on new initiatives to design, build, deploy, and support high performance deep learning systems in a rapidly-scaling environment.

As a member of our team, you will make an immediate impact as you help build out and expand our technology platforms across several software products.

This is a high growth and impact role that will give you tons of opportunity to drive decisions for projects from inception through production.

What you will get to do

• Help to create and build out our API framework that enables our machine learning team to expose their models to engineering teams across the organization.
• Orchestrate systems using Kubernetes.
• Set up CI / CD pipelines of multiple applications.
• Scale multiple APIs to handle millions of requests per day using both synchronous and asynchronous webhook callback approaches.
• Work with deep learning engineers and DevOps teams to troubleshoot server / infrastructure / systems-level issues.
• Assist in data gathering and enhancing and building out visualizations to help QC model output.
• Maintaining the system in general, on-call bug-fixing for mission critical issues.
• Work on and build out tools that simplify package upgrades across many microserves

What you bring

• 2+ years experience deploying robust APIs in production environments (ideally cloud-based environments such as AWS or GCP).
• Knowledge of deploying and troubleshooting containers (Docker) and container orchestration systems (Kubernetes).
• 2+ years Experience with python and web frameworks like django, flask or FastAPI.
• An understanding of the importance of CI / CD pipelines.
• You look ahead to identify opportunities and foster a culture of innovation.
• BS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent work experience.

Nice to haves

• Knowledge of Terraform or other infrastructure as code solutions.
• Experience working with Amazon web services or another cloud provider.
• Experience deploying and working on Kubernetes clusters on EKS.
• Knowledge of monitoring, tracing, and metrics visualization (e.g. Prometheus, Sentry, Fluentd, Grafana, OpenTracing, / Jaeger, etc)

What We Offer

• An inclusive and collaborative company culture - we work in an open environment while working together to get things done, and adapt to the changing needs as they come.
• An opportunity to have an impact in a technologically data driven company.
• Ownership over data and environments in an industry leading product.
• Market competitive total compensation package.
• Volunteer time off and charitable donation matching.
• Strong support for career growth, including mentorship programs, leadership training, access to conferences and employee resources groups.
• Regular hackathons to build your own projects and Engineering Lunch and Learns.
• Great benefits package including health / vision / dental, unlimited PTO, flexible schedule, RRSPs matching, travel reimbursement, and more.

If this sounds like something you would like to be part of, we'd love for you to apply! Don't worry if you think that you don't meet all the qualifications here.

The tools, technology, and methodologies we use are constantly changing and we value talent and interest over specific experience.

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.