Backend Engineer### Backend EngineerApply: Remote, Canada: Poland, Virtual: Remote, Germany: Full time: Posted Today: R60190Job Summary:At Modaxo, we're passionate about changing the face of people transportation. We believe that all transportation services should be safe, efficient, convenient, and equitable. Our products power mission-critical operations across a variety of industry sectors. We're making a strategic investment in AI to transform our solutions. You will build the core services of a new enterprise AI platform
- the APIs, orchestration, and data and integration on-ramps that our products build on. We ship working software on aggressive timelines; perfect is the enemy of shipped. You'll report to the Head of AI Platform Engineering and join a small, senior founding team building the platform from the ground up. The opportunity: build the services an entire product portfolio depends on, with a clean slate and real ownership.

Job Description
# Why this role is different* It's platform AND product. You build reusable platform capability while enabling product teams to ship features fast
- balancing leverage with velocity.
* It's domain-first, not tech-first. You'll learn our customers' operational domain; the best platform choices come from understanding how the work actually runs.
* It's pragmatic build/buy. We win on integration and reliability using proven components
- pragmatic decisions, not gold-plating.
* It's a founding role
- you help build the team. As an early hire you'll set the patterns, tests, and guardrails others build on, and help raise the bar as we hire.
* It's production-first, not research-first. We ship on aggressive timelines and own what we ship.
* It's value-based. You'll validate with product teams and customers and prioritize by value
- building what moves outcomes,



not what's novel.#

What You'll Do
## Core Platform Services* Design and build core backend services
- APIs, orchestration, and access control
- as reliable, well-tested production systems.
* Shape API design and developer experience for internal and external consumers of the platform.
* Contribute to the reference architecture and design records; keep boundaries clean so components stay swappable.## Multi-Tenant SaaS & Integration* Build for multiple customers on shared infrastructure: isolation, quotas, and usage metering done properly.
* Build data and integration on-ramps
- connector frameworks and governed data access that are idempotent and reliable at scale.## Ownership & Reliability* Own services end to end: design, implementation, tests, deployment, and on-call for what you ship.
* Model failure modes explicitly
- partial failure, retries, consistency, back-pressure
- and design for them.## Delivering Value with Product & Customers* Work with product teams and customers to validate results and outcomes, prioritizing by value.
* Take a value-based development approach: prove value with the smallest useful slice, then scale what works.
* Instrument and measure impact; let evidence
- not opinion
- drive what ships.
* Build automated QA
- tests, quality gates, and regression checks
- into the delivery pipeline.## Building the Team & Ways of Working* Help build the team: contribute to hiring,



raise the bar in interviews, and mentor as we grow.
* Foster a culture of technical excellence, customer obsession, and pragmatic shipping.
* Partner with product teams across the portfolio who own their own roadmaps.# What You'll BringWe look at demonstrated experience and scope, not years served
- and we don't expect every candidate to tick every box.
* Production distributed systems: You've built and operated production backend or distributed services that other teams depend on.
* End-to-end ownership: You own correctness, tests, and operations for what you build.
* Trade-off reasoning: You describe systems by the trade-offs you made, not just the technologies you used.
* Explicit communication: You explain your thinking clearly to engineers, product partners, and customers, and bring people along.
* Value and pragmatism: You focus on outcomes and value and make pragmatic calls to ship. # Bonus PointsAny of these strengthen an application
- none are required:
* Multi-tenant SaaS: Backend services serving many customers with enforced isolation and metering.
* Gateways & orchestration: API gateways or workflow orchestration at scale.
* Integration frameworks: Connector or integration frameworks (API/EDI/CDC), not one-off scripts.
* LLM-backed services: Backend work behind AI or LLM features in production.
* Languages: Strength in C#/.
NET or Python; Go a bonus.
* Architecture

experience:
System/platform design and trade-off judgement
- one-way vs two-way doors.
* Enterprise scale: Experience building or operating enterprise-scale software and its reliability, security, and integration demands.
* AI-assisted engineering: You use AI coding assistants productively and supervise their out

📌 Backend Engineer (Canada)
🏢 Modaxo
📍 Canada