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Vantage · 1 week ago

Senior Backend Engineer

Canada

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level

6+ years exp

Vantage is a unified platform for retail media orchestration, empowering enterprise retailers to enhance their advertising capabilities. They are seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to focus on building features and integrations with partner systems, ensuring reliable and scalable backend services while mentoring the engineering team.

AnalyticsArtificial Intelligence (AI)Digital MarketingMachine LearningMarketingMarketing AutomationPredictive AnalyticsRetailRetail TechnologySoftware

Responsibilities

Serve as one of the owners for application and database performance. Review pull requests with an eye for query cost, indexing, and data access patterns, and drive improvements across the codebase

Own external API integrations and data exchange. Build and maintain reliable partner connectors, including authentication, rate limiting, and retries. Design and evolve internal and partner-facing APIs

Design and ship backend features and services in Python and Django with predictable latency and high reliability

Diagnose production issues, lead debugging sessions, and improve observability using logs, metrics, and traces

Proactively identify performance risks, create plans to eliminate them, and coach the team on best practices to prevent regressions

Maintain strong automated test coverage and clear documentation that support safe changes and fast delivery

Mentor engineers through pairing, design reviews, and actionable feedback that raises the standard of the team

Contribute to architectural discussions and solutioning to ensure scalable and effective product decisions

Qualification

Advanced SQLPythonDjangoDatabase performanceCloud platformsB2B API integrationsTroubleshootingPerformance optimizationCeleryRabbitMQOTELMentoring

Required

6+ years of professional experience with a strong record in software development, testing, software design, and architecture

Advanced SQL expertise beyond an ORM user. Comfortable reading DB queries, designing indexes, tuning complex joins, and refactoring queries for reliability and speed

Strong Python and Django experience building production services and APIs

Experience as a gatekeeper for database performance in code reviews and in debugging sessions

Experience with MySQL and/or Postgres

Proven ability to troubleshoot and debug production code using logs, metrics, and traces

Experience addressing performance and optimization problems with a demonstrated ability to both diagnose and prevent issues

Experience with cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or GCP

Track record of effective mentoring and knowledge sharing

Experience with B2B API integrations