Staff Software Developer, Backend Streams

Location: Canada - Remote

Department: Engineering

Location Type: REMOTE

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

• Python, Django, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, AWS

• Drive the architecture and evolution of the ETL and data processing systems that ingest customer product catalogs into Leap Tools' internal product catalog platform.
• Design systems capable of reliably processing large and highly variable datasets from thousands of customers, dealing with complex schemas, transformations, validation rules, dependencies, and imperfect source data.
• Identify and eliminate performance bottlenecks across data ingestion, transformation, persistence, indexing, and retrieval, continually improving throughput and end-to-end processing latency.
• Design distributed processing systems that scale horizontally while maintaining strong guarantees around correctness, idempotency, fault tolerance, retries, and recovery.
• Help evolve the architecture of one of the most complex and foundational areas of the Leap Tools platform as our product catalog continues to grow in size and complexity.
• Partner with product and engineering leadership to define technical direction, identify foundational investments, and plan for scale and performance.
• Serve as a force multiplier by mentoring senior engineers, conducting architecture reviews, and enabling high-quality, high-velocity development across teams.
• Champion engineering excellence and set the technical bar for backend systems in terms of scalability, resiliency, observability, and maintainability.
• Lead cross-functional initiatives that span multiple teams and stakeholders across the business.
• Help shape the long-term technical vision and culture of the engineering organization.
• Influence hiring, onboarding, and growth strategies to ensure a strong and healthy team over time.

• 8+ years of software development experience building and operating scalable, reliable systems in production environments.
• Strong experience designing and operating complex ETL pipelines, data processing platforms, or other high-throughput data-intensive systems.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems concepts, including concurrency, partitioning, consistency, idempotency, retries, failure recovery, and horizontal scaling.
• Experience with performance engineering: profiling complex systems, identifying bottlenecks, understanding resource utilization, and materially improving throughput and latency.
• Experience working with large datasets and designing efficient approaches to transformation, persistence, indexing, and retrieval.
• Deep understanding of computer science fundamentals, including algorithms, data structures, networking, and databases.
• Proven experience designing and scaling distributed systems with a focus on performance, observability, reliability, and fault tolerance.
• Strong architectural instincts and the ability to make high-leverage technical decisions that impact multiple teams and systems.
• Demonstrated ability to influence and mentor senior engineers, guide teams through ambiguity, and elevate engineering practices across the board.
• Exceptional ownership mindset — you drive initiatives forward, raise the bar, and deliver lasting impact.
• Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, high-autonomy, product-driven environment.
• Experience with data engineering, data ingestion platforms, product catalogues, e-commerce data, search systems, or similar domains is strongly preferred.
• Familiarity with our stack (Python, Django, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, OpenSearch, AWS) is strongly preferred, but deep expertise in analogous systems and a willingness to learn are welcome.

• We're a remote-first company that encourages our employees to work from where they're most productive.
• We work in tight-knit teams to cultivate an ownership mentality.
• We cherish curiosity and an obsession for details because we know these details are invaluable over the long run.
• We're hyper-focused on our achievements and our ability to execute our promises. We act with urgency.
• Work anywhere in the world for up to 3 months!
• We value families, by offering a parental leave program
• We offer a work-from-home stipend
• Your birthday (and our company's birthday) is a day off!

• You upload your resume and complete a brief questionnaire.
• Three rounds of technical assessment.
• Culture fit assessment.
• Final interview with leadership.
• Offer