BUMP provides secure charitable lottery and fundraising platform solutions to most recognizable professional sports foundations and well-known and distinguished not-for-profits across North America. Our Mission is to be the most valued partner to charities and not-for-profits, providing fundraising products, services, and creativity, with the goal to maximize charitable revenue. Our Vision is to be the world's leader in fundraising solutions helping our partners significantly change people's lives and communities for the better.
At BUMP we seek long-term relationships with our employees and recognize and reward them with a competitive total compensation package that includes:
An industry-leading defined contribution pension plan with company matching contributions (up to 5%) and payment of service fees;
Best-in-class health, medical, and life insurance benefits;
Access to virtual and telehealth services and apps; Job Title : Backend Developer
Job Type : Permanent, Full time
As a Backend Developer on our Prediction Markets team, you will help build and maintain a secure, multi-tenant prediction-market platform designed for Latin American markets. You will contribute to APIs, databases, integrations, background processing, real-time services, financial workflows, and production support.

Design, implement, test, and maintain backend services using PHP and Laravel.
Support real-time updates using Redis, Laravel Reverb, and WebSockets.
Contribute to market-data imports, price feeds, resolution monitoring, and market localization.
Contribute to ledger, fee, reconciliation, and reporting workflows.
Develop REST and GraphQL APIs for public, administrative, and integration use cases.
Integrate with external transactional, sportsbook, wallet, market-data, and trading APIs.
Maintain backward compatibility when changing APIs, database structures, GraphQL schemas, or event contracts.
Implement explicit handling for timeouts, retries, duplicate messages, rate limits, stale data, and partial failures.
Database & Data Management
Create and maintain PostgreSQL database schemas, migrations, relationships, indexes, and queries.
Build and maintain deterministic financial reports, audit trails, and data exports.




Implement request validation, authentication, authorization, role-based access control, and audit logging.
Ensure tenant data isolation and secure access controls within multi-tenant environments.
Contribute to multi-tenant application development, domain-based tenant resolution, and tenant data isolation.
Maintain compatibility across evolving application, data, and integration architectures.
Quality Assurance, Testing & Reliability
Write and maintain unit, integration, API, queue-processing, security, and multi-tenant tests.
Diagnose application, database, queue, cache, real-time, and external-integration failures.
Contribute to deployment readiness, operational documentation, observability, and incident follow-up.
Participate in the weekly Tier 3 on-call rotation, investigating escalated production issues and working with Service Desk, Technical Support, infrastructure teams, external partners, and engineering team members to restore service.
Support production monitoring, troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and service restoration activities.
Agile Development & Engineering Practices
Participate in estimation, technical design, code reviews, and continuous improvement.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality software solutions and operational enhancements.
Fluent in English (speak, read, write)
Able to work an on-call rotation of 1 week on/7 weeks off
Experience developing and supporting backend applications using PHP and Laravel.

- Experience working with relational databases, SQL, and database design concepts.
- Experience developing background jobs, queue-based processing, and automated tests.
- Experience with Git, Docker, and modern software development practices, including CI/CD.
- Degree or diploma in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related field
- Experience with PostgreSQL, Redis, GraphQL,



WebSockets, or event-driven architectures.
- Experience with AWS services and containerized infrastructure.
- Experience with Laravel ecosystem technologies, such as Horizon, Nova, Sanctum, Octane, or tenancy frameworks.
- Experience with application monitoring, observability, performance tuning, and operational support.
- Knowledge of secure software development practices, including OWASP principles, role-based access control, and audit logging.
- Experience in financial services, payment processing, fintech, gaming, lottery, or other regulated industries.
- Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools and experience with financial reporting, reconciliation, or transaction-processing systems.

Our organization is committed to employment equity and diversity in the workplace. We actively encourage applications from women, Indigenous Peoples, persons with disabilities, members of visible minorities, and LGBTQ2+ individuals.
We are dedicated to removing barriers and fostering an inclusive workplace that reflects society and we are committed to providing an accessible and inclusive recruitment process in accordance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA).
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As part of our commitment to transparency and fairness in hiring, we disclose that artificial intelligence (AI) tools may be used at certain stages of our recruitment process. All AI-assisted decisions are subject to human oversight to ensure fairness, accuracy, and compliance with applicable laws.
We are committed to the responsible, transparent, and accountable use of AI, in alignment with Ontario’s Responsible Use of Artificial Intelligence Directive and the requirements under the Working for Workers Four Act. This includes taking steps to mitigate bias, protect candidate privacy, and ensure that AI does not unfairly influence hiring outcomes.
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📌 Back-End Developer - Full-Time H/F (Ottawa)
🏢 BUMP
📍 Ottawa