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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 quick - 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.* Clear 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 sca

📌 Backend Engineer (Winnipeg)
🏢 Modaxo
📍 Winnipeg