About Feathery
Feathery is the AI Operating & Decisioning system for financial services. Our customers — including Fortune 500s like Allstate — use Feathery to power mission-critical workflows such as customer onboarding, insurance underwriting and quoting, account openings, and advisor transitions.

Why We’re Hiring
As Feathery grows, so does the complexity and scale of the systems that power our product — from document processing pipelines to real-time workflow execution.

We’re hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to help build and scale the core infrastructure behind our document intelligence and workflow platform. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys designing reliable, high-performance systems and taking ownership of backend architecture in a high-growth B2B SaaS environment.

You’ll work closely with product, engineering, and customer-facing teams to deliver systems that are fast, resilient, and deeply aligned with customer needs.

About The Role
This is a high-ownership role that blends:

Backend system design and distributed architecture

Infrastructure, scalability, and performance optimization

Product-focused engineering and problem solving

Cross-functional collaboration across product and customer teams

You’ll play a key role in shaping the systems that power Feathery’s platform — ensuring they are reliable, scalable, and built to handle complex, real-world use cases.

What You’ll Do
Backend Systems & Infrastructure

Design, build, and scale backend services that power document processing and workflow automation

Develop asynchronous pipelines and distributed systems for handling large volumes of data





Build and maintain infrastructure using AWS services and queueing systems (e.g., SQS)

Ensure high availability, fault tolerance, and observability across systems

Optimize systems for performance, scalability, and cost-efficiency

Data Processing & Platform Capabilities

Build systems for processing and transforming structured and unstructured data

Integrate external services such as OCR and AI models where appropriate

Improve reliability and throughput of document and data processing pipelines

Contribute to APIs and internal services that power the product

Product & Cross-Functional Collaboration

Work closely with product to define requirements and ship impactful features

Collaborate with frontend and customer-facing teams to support new use cases

Help translate complex customer needs into scalable backend solutions

Contribute to product planning and technical scoping

Technical Leadership

Take ownership of key backend systems and architecture decisions

Mentor other engineers and contribute to engineering best practices

Help improve code quality, testing, and deployment processes

Stay up to date with modern backend and infrastructure technologies

About You





4–7+ years of experience building and scaling backend systems

Strong proficiency in backend frameworks such as Node.js, Django, or similar

Experience designing distributed systems and asynchronous processing pipelines

Solid experience with AWS and cloud infrastructure

Strong understanding of system performance, reliability, and observability

Experience building production-grade APIs and services

Comfortable working in a fast-paced, high-growth startup environment

Solid communication skills and ability to collaborate across teams

Bonus

Experience building data processing or ETL pipelines

Familiarity with document processing, OCR, or AI/ML integrations

Experience with queueing systems (e.g., SQS) and event-driven architectures

Experience optimizing systems for high throughput and low latency

Background in financial services, insurance, or other data-intensive industries

Experience at a high-growth B2B SaaS company

What We Offer

Competitive compensation and equity

Health, dental, and vision coverage

Unlimited PTO

Downtown Toronto office location

Office snacks and lunches

A supportive, low-ego team that values ownership and growth

Company offsite to connect and recharge

Feathery is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or any other legally protected characteristic. We’re committed to building an inclusive team and provide reasonable accommodations upon request.

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📌 Senior Backend Engineer (Ontario)
🏢 Feathery
📍 Ontario