Requirements7+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a robust track record of building and operating backend or platform systems in productionSignificant experience designing and operating distributed, event-driven, or high-scale backend systemsStrong architectural judgment around stateful services, real-time or near-real-time decisioning, asynchronous processing, system reliability, and production operationsHands‑on technical leadership

experience:
you are comfortable being the go‑to person for unblocking, reviewing, mentoring, and leading complex technical initiatives end‑to‑endExperience translating ambiguous product goals into pragmatic technical designs and incremental execution plansFamiliarity with systems that process high‑volume event data, such as event stream processing, behavioral analytics, pub/sub systems, workflow systems, rule engines, or decisioning enginesStrong understanding of distributed systems concerns such as retries, duplicate events, ordering, late‑arriving data, idempotency, backfills, partial failures, tenancy, and data consistency tradeoffsExperience building scalable backend services in cloud environments, preferably Google Cloud PlatformA strong focus on operational excellence — building reliable systems with monitoring, alerting, logging, tracing, incident response,



and shared ownership of on‑call responsibilities for business‑critical servicesClear communication skills and the ability to translate technical tradeoffs into practical decisions with Product, Design, engineering partners, and business stakeholdersA collaborative, product‑minded approach to platform engineering — balancing technical quality with customer value and delivery momentumIf you’re excited

about the role
but don’t meet all of the abovementioned qualifications, we encourage you to applyWhat the job involvesWe’re looking for a Lead Software Engineer to join the Behavioral team, responsible for turning raw customer signals into meaningful marketing triggersThis team builds the behavioral intelligence layer of our platform — systems that detect patterns in customer activity and inactivity (such as cart abandonment, price drops, or loyalty milestones) and translate them into automated messaging opportunitiesThis is a hands‑on technical leadership role for someone who thrives at the intersection of big‑picture architecture and heads‑down implementationYou’ll help shape the technical direction for a critical platform capability while also staying close to the details: designing systems, writing code, reviewing implementation, mentoring engineers, and unblocking the team on complex technical problemsYou’ll work on challenging distributed systems problems involving high‑volume event data, event correlation, temporal windows, stateful evaluation, trigger eligibility,

📌 Lead backend developer (Toronto)
🏢 Movable Ink
📍 Toronto