Senior Back-End Developer, Innovation Development

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Description

Inspirational, innovative and entrepreneurial - this is how we describe our empowered teams. Combine your passion with purpose and join a culture that is thriving in the face of change.

Make an impact with our Technology - Development team as a Senior Back-End Developer, Innovation Development. This diverse team of tech-savvy builders and problem solvers embraces digital transformation, and the possibilities technology brings to the future of our industry. We’re looking for team members who have a strong sense of ownership and drive, and who thrive on delivering high-quality solutions that are redefining the way MNP does business.

MNP is proudly Canadian. Providing business strategies and solutions, we are a leading national accounting, tax and business advisory firm in Canada. Entrepreneurial to our core, our talented team members transcend obstacles into opportunities and are successfully transforming mid-market business practices.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop scalable, cloud-native back-end services using modern .NET, API-first patterns, and secure integration approaches
• Own the back-end architecture and implementation for new innovation initiatives, ensuring services are reliable, modular, and built for long-term sustainability
• Work closely with the Innovation Development Manager, Architecture, Solution Delivery, and Data/ML teams to refine requirements, shape solution designs, and align with enterprise standards
• Design and build APIs and microservices that support both internal systems and modern front-end applications, ensuring clarity in domain boundaries and reusability across innovation solutions
• Integrate AI/ML capabilities into back-end services, collaborating with ML engineers to orchestrate inference endpoints, data flows, and responsible AI considerations
• Participate fully in Agile ceremonies, contributing to estimation, sprint planning, standups, demos, and retrospectives
• Write clean, well-structured, testable code, including comprehensive unit, integration, and API-level tests to achieve high quality and coverage
• Build reliability and observability into services, including logging, tracing, metrics, dashboards, and automated alerts
• Conduct technical investigations and PoCs, evaluating feasibility of new technologies, patterns, or integration approaches and communicating findings clearly
• Perform peer code reviews, ensuring adherence to architecture patterns, security practices, cloud standards, performance expectations, and maintainability
• Prevent technical debt from day one, applying sound engineering discipline, contributing to architectural guardrails, and ensuring decisions support long-term velocity
• Identify opportunities to automate processes, streamline deployments, improve developer workflows, and introduce modern tooling
• Mentor developers through pair programming, design reviews, knowledge sharing, and demonstrations of best practices
• Contribute ideas and perspectives on improving engineering patterns, architectural approaches, and the overall innovation delivery model

Skills and Experience

• At least 5 years of professional experience as a back-end developer with a strong emphasis on .NET back-end systems
• Deep expertise with C# and .NET/ASP.NET Core (preferably .NET 8+), API development (REST), and service-oriented architectures
• Demonstrated experience designing and building microservices and distributed systems, including those interacting with NoSQL and relational data stores
• Strong experience with Azure services, such as Azure Functions, API Management, Service Bus/Event Grid, Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, or similar cloud-native components
• Hands-on experience implementing event-driven systems, stream processing, or messaging patterns (e.g., Service Bus, Kafka, Event Grid)
• Strong understanding of Domain-Driven Design (DDD) or similar architectural approaches; experience applying DDD in real-world systems is an asset
• Solid understanding of API-first development, service contracts, versioning strategies, and secure integration patterns (OAuth2, JWT, managed identities)
• Experience integrating AI/ML workloads (model endpoints, data flows, orchestration)
• Strong experience building automated tests (unit, integration, contract tests) and working with CI/CD pipelines for automated build, test, and deploy
• Solid understanding of Agile/Scrum delivery practices and the ability to iterate quickly in an innovation environment
• Experience preparing technical diagrams, documentation, or presentations to explain architecture, decisions, and service behavior
• Exposure to front-end technologies (Angular, Blazor, or similar) is an asset but not required
• Strong problem-solving, analytical thinking, and the ability to work autonomously in a fast-paced innovation environment
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, including the ability to explain complex backend concepts to various audiences
• Experience working with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform preferred) or similar technologies for provisioning cloud resources is considered an asset