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Technical Lead
Shyftlabs
Toronto, CAN
Full-time
Senior · 8+ years experience
Hybrid
CAD 130000-170000 yearly / year
Discovered 3 weeks ago
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- Architect & Deliver: Design and implement distributed backend systems capable of handling billions of monthly events (e.g., AdTech pipelines, CAMS microservices).
- Build Scalable Data Pipelines: Develop robust ingestion and processing frameworks using Kafka , ClickHouse , and Snowflake , ensuring data quality and schema governance.
- Optimize Performance: Lead database optimization efforts across Aurora , Cloud SQL , and PostgreSQL to deliver low-latency, high-availability systems.
- Set the Bar for Engineering: Define and enforce best practices around code quality, CI/CD automation, monitoring, and release management.
- Lead & Mentor: Guide engineers through architectural decisions, conduct design reviews, and balance workload distribution in an Agile setup.
- Drive Cloud Architecture: Design cloud infrastructure on AWS and GCP , with a focus on scalability, cost efficiency, and security compliance.
- Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Partner closely with Product Managers and Data teams to evaluate technical feasibility, define milestones, and deliver on roadmap goals.
- Champion Reliability: Promote observability and reliability engineering practices, building alerting, tracing, and SLO/SLA dashboards for high system visibility.
- 8+ years of backend development experience, including 3+ years in a technical leadership or architecture role.
- Deep expertise in distributed systems , event-driven architecture , and data-intensive applications .
- Strong proficiency in at least one backend language ( Node.js , Python , Go , or Java ).
- Hands-on experience with Kafka , ClickHouse , Snowflake , and relational databases.
- Proven experience scaling systems on AWS or GCP .
- Exceptional communication, mentorship, and problem-solving skills.
- A startup mindset - someone who is adaptable, execution-focused, and unafraid to get hands-on when needed.
- $130,000 - $170,000
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