N2P Systems is seeking an experienced Backend Developer to join our enterprise technology delivery team in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. At N2P Systems, you will put 3-5 years of hands-on experience with Ruby, Golang and RESTful APIs to work on mission-critical enterprise systems. This is an existing contract, hybrid vacancy with N2P Systems.
N2P Systems is seeking an experienced Backend Developer to build and maintain the backend infrastructure powering high-traffic digital products and streaming experiences. This role focuses on developing reliable, scalable backend services and APIs using Ruby and Golang.
You will contribute to consumer-facing applications where performance, availability and system reliability are particularly important during high-demand live sporting events. Working alongside engineering, product, quality assurance, architecture and infrastructure teams, you will help deliver new capabilities and continuously improve existing backend systems.
N2P Systems uses AI to help screen and assess applications for this role. N2P Systems is an enterprise technology consulting and digital solutions firm operating across Canada, the United States and India.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop and maintain backend services, microservices and APIs using Ruby and Golang.
- Build scalable and dependable services for high-traffic digital applications and streaming products.
- Develop RESTful APIs and integrations with internal and external systems.
- Work with relational and distributed databases, including MySQL and Cassandra, alongside Redis caching solutions.
- Improve application performance, scalability, availability and overall service reliability.
- Investigate, troubleshoot and resolve production issues affecting backend applications and services.
- Collaborate with infrastructure and DevOps teams on cloud environments, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring and production operations.
- Integrate backend services with authentication, subscription, payment, analytics, advertising and content delivery platforms.
- Maintain clean, testable and maintainable code through automated testing, source control and code reviews.
- Participate in technical design and architecture discussions and identify opportunities to improve existing systems.
- Contribute to Agile engineering activities, including sprint planning, estimation, daily stand-ups and retrospectives.
- Provide production support during major live sporting events and participate in designated event monitoring activities.
Required Skills & Qualifications
- 3–5+ years of professional software development experience, primarily focused on backend engineering.
- Strong hands-on development experience with Ruby and Golang.
- Practical experience designing, developing and maintaining RESTful APIs and microservices.
- Experience working with relational databases such as MySQL and distributed or NoSQL databases such as Cassandra.
- Hands-on familiarity with caching technologies such as Redis.
- Good understanding of application architecture, database design, performance optimization and scalability.
- Experience with automated testing, source control systems and modern CI/CD development practices.
- Ability to troubleshoot and resolve technical issues in production environments.
- Demonstrated ability to develop clean, maintainable and well-tested backend code.
- Experience working collaboratively with cross-functional engineering teams in Agile development environments.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working with AWS or other major cloud platforms.
- Familiarity with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
- Exposure to monitoring and observability solutions such as Datadog, New Relic or Dynatrace.
- Experience with content delivery networks, including Akamai or Amazon CloudFront.
- Background developing high-traffic consumer applications, streaming platforms or digital media products.
- Familiarity with authentication, identity management, entitlement and subscription services.
- Experience integrating payment processing, analytics, advertising or other media technology platforms.
Apply directly at: https://www.n2psystems.com/jobs/REQ-43730
