Backend Engineer

Salary: $65,000 - 98,000 per year

Requirements:

• Experience shipping meaningful software projects
• Ability to own backend systems end to end, including application code, cloud infrastructure, and production debugging
• Familiarity with Google Cloud Platform, PostgreSQL, TypeScript, Node.js, Terraform, and LLM APIs such as OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, and Google Gemini
• Ability to work across API design, databases, infrastructure, and AI integrations
• Product-minded approach, clear communication, initiative, and collaborative working style
• A GitHub profile, if available; a website or portfolio showcasing projects is also welcome
• Degrees, certifications, and other formal credentials are not required

Responsibilities:

• Own backend delivery for AI features, from design and implementation through deployment, monitoring, and iteration
• Build and deploy production-grade backend services using TypeScript, Node.js, and Google Cloud Platform, with attention to performance, scalability, latency, retries, idempotency, and error handling
• Design, manage, and evolve cloud infrastructure using Terraform, making decisions that support reliability, security, observability, and cost efficiency
• Integrate with OpenAI, Claude, and Gemini using provider routing and fallbacks, structured outputs, tool calling, streaming, and cost and latency controls
• Design and evolve PostgreSQL schemas, queries, indexes, and migrations
• Implement secure authentication and data access, enforce permissions, and protect sensitive data and service credentials
• Deliver stable, well-documented APIs for iOS, clear payload contracts, and practical testing workflows with tools such as Postman or curl, alongside automated tests
• Collaborate with iOS and product teammates to resolve blockers, and communicate decisions and tradeoffs clearly

Technologies:

• AI
• API
• Backend
• Cloud
• GitHub
• Support
• LLM
• PostgreSQL
• Postman
• Security
• Terraform
• TypeScript
• iOS
• NodeJS
• DevOps
• GCP
• UX UI Design

More:

Were building AI-powered features for a consumer iOS application, and our senior backend engineer will join us in a product-minded role focused on turning early ideas into reliable systems and iterating with user feedback. TransCrypts is building digital trust for the AI era; we recently raised a $20 million seed round and are expanding across product categories. Our company has been featured in Forbes, The Globe and Mail, and Bloomberg. We value initiative, thoughtful shipping, and a collaborative, fast-moving culture. This is a full-time position, 40 hours per week, based in our downtown Toronto office, with in-person work five days each week. Annual pay is $65,000–$98,000.

last updated 45 week of 2026