The companyis hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to join its Customer Focus Group (CFG) — a technical team that connects engineering with the commercial side of the product. CFG team members work across development, architecture, product, and customer-facing activities. The role involves understanding customer needs, translating them into product improvements, building new features, and solving urgent technical challenges.

We’re looking for a robust backend engineer who can combine deep technical expertise with a broader product and customer perspective. The role has a strong focus on infrastructure, performance, scalability, and customer satisfaction.

Responsibilities - Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs - Develop new features based on customer and product requirements - Work closely with customers to understand their needs and translate them into technical solutions - Investigate and resolve complex technical and production issues - Improve system performance, reliability, and scalability - Contribute to backend architecture and technical decision-making - Work with SQL and NoSQL databases and support high-volume data processing - Build and maintain cloud-based solutions using AWS, Azure,



or GCP - Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Sales, and Customer Success teams - Participate in code reviews, testing, CI/CD, and Agile development processes - Take ownership of features from design and development through deployment and support - Help improve the overall customer experience and product quality Requirements - Strong understanding of backend architecture, including microservices, API design, and design patterns - Proficiency in Node.js / TypeScript or another relevant backend language - Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases - Experience building and scaling systems for high-volume data processing - Hands-on experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP - Familiarity with cloud services such as serverless computing and managed databases - 5+ years of backend development experience, preferably with customer-focused products - Strong problem-solving skills and experience building performant, scalable solutions - Experience with Agile development and CI/CD pipelines - Excellent communication and collaboration skills, including working with globally distributed teams

📌 Senior Backend Engineer (Toronto)
🏢 Socket.dev
📍 Toronto