Intermediate Software Engineer (Backend)
Achievers
Date: 3 weeks ago
City: Toronto, ON
Contract type: Full time
About Achievers
The Achievers Employee Experience Platform is more than a thank you program. Our recognition platform inspires employees to recognize everyone, everyday, and everywhere – driving results that matter. With almost 4 million global users, the Employee Experience Platform empowers employees in over 170 countries. Visit us at www.achievers.com to learn more and check out our platform in action here . Join our team of A-players who bring passion to our purpose and believe that meaningful change can create extraordinary outcomes.
Our commitment to you:
At Achievers, we hire you for you because we value the unique perspective and individuality that each person brings to our team. We are committed to creating an inclusive, diverse, and equitable workplace where you belong, and your contributions are celebrated. Together, we achieve more by combining our unique strengths, fostering collaboration, and inspiring each other to reach new heights.
At Achievers, our software delivers a powerful new way for companies to engage, align, and recognize employees, enabling remarkable business success. Every day.
We’re looking for a skilled and motivated Intermediate Backend Engineer to join our platform engineering team. In this role, you’ll contribute to the design, development, and maintenance of scalable backend systems that power our applications and services. You'll work closely with cross-functional teams to build robust microservices, optimize performance, and ensure high reliability. This is a great opportunity for an engineer with solid experience in backend development who is eager to take ownership of features and grow technically within a collaborative and fast-paced environment.
Why we’d want to work with you:
You have a passion for building world-class software
You’re positive thinking and find opportunities instead of problems
You have superb technical abilities. You’re always striving to improve
You believe software should be just as beautiful on the inside as it is on the outside
You have strong opinions on software best practices
What you'll do:
We are passionate about disruptive technology that’s rooted in science, research and data.
We understand the value of employee success in the workplace and have been recognized in numerous publications for our contributions to HR, for technical excellence, and for our outstanding workplace culture!
We foster an environment of connection, security, and community. You’ll feel at home, without reservation.
We believe in moving quickly, failing fast, and adapting to change.
We enjoy coming to work every day because we believe in our product and love our culture.
We’re committed to achieving excellence in everything we do.
Benefits & Perks for permanent full time employees:
Competitive Pay
Parental Leave Top-up
Health Benefits and Life Insurance Coverage Upon Your First Day
RRSP Matching
Flexible Vacation
Employee and Family Assistance Program
Full access to the LinkedIn Learning Library
Internal Mentorship Program
Employee-Led Employee Resource Groups
A beautiful office space located in Liberty Village, Toronto
Participation in our Points-based Employee Recognition Program
Opportunities for professional development and career growth
Our work environment:
Achievers is a hybrid-first company located at 99 Atlantic Ave in Liberty Village, Toronto. Our hybrid work experience is designed to cultivate an engaging employee experience, where pioneering research intersects with cutting-edge technology. We strongly believe that collocating teams increases the chance to innovate together, foster passive learning, create spontaneous connections, and promote better communication.
Achievers does not offer employment to prospects without first ensuring that qualified candidates speak directly with the hiring manager and a member of our HR team. All qualification will be done face-to-face, whether that is in person or over Zoom. Achievers does not send out offers of employment without meeting candidates and does not offer employment via text. If you are requested for any personal information via text and/or without having met a member of our hiring team in person, please disregard.
Our employees are a diverse and inclusive team of passionate, hardworking individuals. Achievers is an equal opportunity employer, committed to creating an environment where our employees can do the best work of their lives. We encourage all qualified candidates from all backgrounds and experiences to apply to join our A-Player family.
Achievers is committed to ensuring an inclusive and accessible recruitment process for all candidates. If you require any accommodations for your interview, such as assistive technology, wheelchair accessibility, or alternative formats of materials, please let us know. We are happy to make necessary arrangements to support your needs.
Achievers does not use AI to make hiring decisions. When you apply to work with us, a real person reads your application—every time. We believe in thoughtful, human-centred hiring, and we think your experience, personality, and potential can’t be judged by an algorithm. That’s why we keep it personal and take the time to get to know each qualified candidate.
The Achievers Employee Experience Platform is more than a thank you program. Our recognition platform inspires employees to recognize everyone, everyday, and everywhere – driving results that matter. With almost 4 million global users, the Employee Experience Platform empowers employees in over 170 countries. Visit us at www.achievers.com to learn more and check out our platform in action here . Join our team of A-players who bring passion to our purpose and believe that meaningful change can create extraordinary outcomes.
Our commitment to you:
At Achievers, we hire you for you because we value the unique perspective and individuality that each person brings to our team. We are committed to creating an inclusive, diverse, and equitable workplace where you belong, and your contributions are celebrated. Together, we achieve more by combining our unique strengths, fostering collaboration, and inspiring each other to reach new heights.
At Achievers, our software delivers a powerful new way for companies to engage, align, and recognize employees, enabling remarkable business success. Every day.
We’re looking for a skilled and motivated Intermediate Backend Engineer to join our platform engineering team. In this role, you’ll contribute to the design, development, and maintenance of scalable backend systems that power our applications and services. You'll work closely with cross-functional teams to build robust microservices, optimize performance, and ensure high reliability. This is a great opportunity for an engineer with solid experience in backend development who is eager to take ownership of features and grow technically within a collaborative and fast-paced environment.
Why we’d want to work with you:
You have a passion for building world-class software
You’re positive thinking and find opportunities instead of problems
You have superb technical abilities. You’re always striving to improve
You believe software should be just as beautiful on the inside as it is on the outside
You have strong opinions on software best practices
What you'll do:
- Build, Own and Maintain new innovative product features
- Engage in design/architecture discussions, and share your ideas while building the next generation of features for the Achievers platform
- Active contributor to code reviews
- Use the right tool for the job; we love modern technology and use things like Python, Go, Kubernetes, Docker, Drone, Google PubSub, React/Redux, GraphQL, Microservices and MicroFrontend Architecture with GCP
- Continuously integrate clean, scalable, robust, testable code
- Integrate with various third-party software where data integrity is paramount.
- Work with many different teams and departments in our organization solving complex problems.
- Help us transform our monolith internal systems into up-to-date robust microservices.
- Bachelor's in computer science or master's in computer science (preferred) or related field
- 3+ years of relevant software engineering experience
- Experience working in Agile teams
- Top notch programming skills in any language. Bonus for knowledge of Python, Go, and/or PHP
- Expert with technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, Cloud (GCP, AWS)
- Strong understanding of Microservice Architecture
- Comfortable in a UNIX / Linux environment
- Analyze business requirements and create technical design documents that are in accordance with the company's architecture standards
- Being able to handle and understand multiple domains; many cross-team projects.
- Eager to learn and try new things.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
We are passionate about disruptive technology that’s rooted in science, research and data.
We understand the value of employee success in the workplace and have been recognized in numerous publications for our contributions to HR, for technical excellence, and for our outstanding workplace culture!
We foster an environment of connection, security, and community. You’ll feel at home, without reservation.
We believe in moving quickly, failing fast, and adapting to change.
We enjoy coming to work every day because we believe in our product and love our culture.
We’re committed to achieving excellence in everything we do.
Benefits & Perks for permanent full time employees:
Competitive Pay
Parental Leave Top-up
Health Benefits and Life Insurance Coverage Upon Your First Day
RRSP Matching
Flexible Vacation
Employee and Family Assistance Program
Full access to the LinkedIn Learning Library
Internal Mentorship Program
Employee-Led Employee Resource Groups
A beautiful office space located in Liberty Village, Toronto
Participation in our Points-based Employee Recognition Program
Opportunities for professional development and career growth
Our work environment:
Achievers is a hybrid-first company located at 99 Atlantic Ave in Liberty Village, Toronto. Our hybrid work experience is designed to cultivate an engaging employee experience, where pioneering research intersects with cutting-edge technology. We strongly believe that collocating teams increases the chance to innovate together, foster passive learning, create spontaneous connections, and promote better communication.
Achievers does not offer employment to prospects without first ensuring that qualified candidates speak directly with the hiring manager and a member of our HR team. All qualification will be done face-to-face, whether that is in person or over Zoom. Achievers does not send out offers of employment without meeting candidates and does not offer employment via text. If you are requested for any personal information via text and/or without having met a member of our hiring team in person, please disregard.
Our employees are a diverse and inclusive team of passionate, hardworking individuals. Achievers is an equal opportunity employer, committed to creating an environment where our employees can do the best work of their lives. We encourage all qualified candidates from all backgrounds and experiences to apply to join our A-Player family.
Achievers is committed to ensuring an inclusive and accessible recruitment process for all candidates. If you require any accommodations for your interview, such as assistive technology, wheelchair accessibility, or alternative formats of materials, please let us know. We are happy to make necessary arrangements to support your needs.
Achievers does not use AI to make hiring decisions. When you apply to work with us, a real person reads your application—every time. We believe in thoughtful, human-centred hiring, and we think your experience, personality, and potential can’t be judged by an algorithm. That’s why we keep it personal and take the time to get to know each qualified candidate.
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