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Senior Back-End Developer, Innovation Development Job Category

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Information Technology

Requisition Number

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SENIO016315

Posted : February 12, 2026

Full-Time

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Description Inspirational, cutting-edge and entrepreneurial - this is how we describe our empowered teams. Combine your passion with purpose and join a culture that is thriving in the face of change.

Make an impact with our Technology - Development team as a Senior Back-End Developer, Innovation Development. This diverse team of tech-savvy builders and problem solvers embraces digital transformation, and the possibilities technology brings to the future of our industry. We’re looking for team members who have a strong sense of ownership and drive, and who thrive on delivering high-quality solutions that are redefining the way MNP does business.

MNP is proudly Canadian. Providing business strategies and solutions, we are a leading national accounting, tax and business advisory firm in Canada. Entrepreneurial to our core, our talented team members transcend obstacles into opportunities and are successfully transforming mid‑market business practices.

Responsibilities

Design and develop scalable, cloud‑native back‑end services using modern .NET, API‑first patterns, and secure integration approaches

Own the back‑end architecture and implementation for new innovation initiatives, ensuring services are reliable, modular, and built for long‑term sustainability

Work closely with the Innovation Development Manager, Architecture, Solution Delivery, and Data/ML teams to refine requirements, shape solution designs, and align with enterprise standards

Design and build APIs and microservices that support both internal systems and modern front‑end applications, ensuring clarity in domain boundaries and reusability across innovation solutions

Integrate AI/ML capabilities into back‑end services, collaborating with ML engineers to orchestrate inference endpoints, data flows, and responsible AI considerations

Participate fully in Agile ceremonies, contributing to estimation, sprint planning, standups, demos, and retrospectives

Write clean, well‑structured, testable code,



including comprehensive unit, integration, and API‑level tests to achieve high quality and coverage

Build reliability and observability into services, including logging, tracing, metrics, dashboards, and automated alerts

Conduct technical investigations and PoCs, evaluating feasibility of new technologies, patterns, or integration approaches and communicating findings clearly

Perform peer code reviews, ensuring adherence to architecture patterns, security practices, cloud standards, performance expectations, and maintainability

Prevent technical debt from day one, applying sound engineering discipline, contributing to architectural guardrails, and ensuring decisions support long‑term velocity

Identify opportunities to automate processes, streamline deployments, improve developer workflows, and introduce modern tooling

Mentor developers through pair programming, design reviews, knowledge sharing, and demonstrations of best practices

Contribute ideas and perspectives on improving engineering patterns, architectural approaches, and the overall innovation delivery model

Skills and Experience

At least 5 years of professional experience as a back‑end developer with a strong emphasis on .NET back‑end systems

Deep expertise with C# and .NET/ASP.NET Core (preferably .NET 8+), API development (REST), and service‑oriented architectures

Demonstrated experience designing and building microservicesand distributed systems, including those interacting with NoSQL and relational data stores

Strong experience with Azure services, such as Azure Functions, API Management, Service Bus/Event Grid, Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, or similar cloud‑native components

Hands‑on experience implementing event‑driven systems, stream processing, or messaging patterns (e.g., Service Bus, Kafka, Event Grid)





Robust understanding of Domain‑Driven Design (DDD) or similar architectural approaches; experience applying DDD in real‑world systems is an asset

Solid understanding of API‑first development, service contracts, versioning strategies, and secure integration patterns (OAuth2, JWT, managed identities)

Experience integrating AI/ML workloads (model endpoints, data flows, orchestration)

Robust experience building automated tests (unit, integration, contract tests) and working with CI/CD pipelines for automated build, test, and deploy

Solid understanding of Agile/Scrum delivery practices and the ability to iterate quickly in an innovation environment

Experience preparing technical diagrams, documentation, or presentations to explain architecture, decisions, and service behavior

Exposure to front‑end technologies (Angular, Blazor, or similar) is an asset but not required

Strong problem‑solving, analytical thinking, and the ability to work autonomously in a fast‑paced innovation environment

Strong communication and collaboration skills, including the ability to explain complex backend concepts to various audiences

Experience working with Infrastructure‑as‑Code (Terraform preferred) or similar technologies for provisioning cloud resources is considered an asset

MyRewards@MNP

With a focus on high‑potential earnings, MNP is proud to offer customized rewards that support our unique culture and a balanced lifestyle to thrive at work and outside of the office. You will be rewarded with generous base pay, vacation time, 4 paid personal days, a group pension plan with 4% matching, voluntary savings products, bonus programs, flexible benefits, mental health resources, exclusive access to perks and discounts, career development assistance, MNP University, a flexible ‘Dress For Your Day’ environment, firm sponsored social events and more!

Diversity@MNP

We embrace diversity as a core value and celebrate our differences. We believe each team member contributes unique gifts and amplifying their potential makes our business stronger. We encourage people with disabilities to apply!

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📌 Senior Back-End Developer, Innovation Development (Calgary)
🏢 MNP
📍 Calgary