Senior Backend Engineer (Reliability & Performance)

Senior Backend Engineer (Reliability & Performance)

Location : Vancouver, BC

Full-Time

In Office Role

About VoPay International Inc.

VoPay’s Fintech-as-a-Service platform allows any business to embed financial services and payment capabilities into their existing applications, products or services through a single and scalable API. Our Integrated technology enables product managers and developers the flexibility and speed to build cutting-edge financial products.

Role Overview

The Senior Backend Engineer (Reliability & Performance) plays a pivotal role in ensuring the availability, scalability, and security of our production environment. This is a hands‑on engineering role that combines software development with operational responsibilities. You will spend a significant portion of your time writing code and implementing architectural improvements that directly enhance performance, reliability, and security. In addition, you will assist with managing and improving our monitoring and alerting systems, contribute to AWS infrastructure management, and implement other changes that strengthen platform security and scalability. You will also collaborate with our support team to assist in investigating and resolving complex issues in high‑demand environments.

The role requires a balance of proactive development and operational problem‑solving, making it ideal for a senior‑level software engineer who is passionate about building scalable systems, applying strong architectural judgment, and driving measurable improvements in platform reliability.

Critical qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field or equivalent work experience.
• 4+ years of experience in a SRE, Software Engineering, or Platform Engineering role.
• Strong programming skills in at least one server‑side language (Python, Java, Go, PHP, etc.), with the ability to write production‑ready code.
• Demonstrated experience with scalability, performance tuning, and architectural design.
• Strong knowledge of cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred).
• Experience with Datadog or similar monitoring and observability tools.
• Excellent analytical and problem‑solving skills, with the ability to diagnose and resolve issues.
• Awareness of and commitment to adhering to security best practices.
• Additional desirable qualifications :
• Experience working with performance tuning strategies in high‑volume transactional systems.
• Familiarity with Infrastructure‑as‑Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or CDK) and managing cloud resources in AWS.
• Knowledge of serverless environments (Lambda, API Gateway, etc.) and related monitoring / debugging practices.
• Experience configuring CI / CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, Bitbucket Pipelines, or similar) and deployment automation.
• Familiarity with security operations tasks, such as IAM permissions reviews, least privilege enforcement, and security group audits.
• Familiarity with compliance frameworks such as SOC 2 or PCI DSS.
• Absolute minimum years of relevant experience required : 4 years

Duties and responsibilities of the role

Monitoring & Observability

Incident Responses & L3 Support

Infrastructure Management

Security

Vopay International Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

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