Senior Backend Engineer, Core
Top Benefits
About the role
About Tilt 🛸 We’re building the next century of shopping—making it feel human, communal, and alive again. E-commerce has spent decades optimizing for clicks, stripping away the trust, joy, and connection that once made shopping meaningful.
We’ve recently raised an $18M Series A from the world’s best investors to build the next era of commerce. Now, we’re hiring elite builders to make it happen.
About The Role We're looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to help architect and scale the systems that power Tilt—from livestreams and checkout to auctions, personalization, and payments. You'll join our Core team: a small, high-leverage group responsible for foundational infrastructure, performance, and reliability.
This role is for builders who thrive in fast-moving environments, think like owners, and aren’t afraid to dive deep into gnarly systems problems. You’ll collaborate closely with product engineers, infra specialists, data scientists, and leadership.
In this role, you will:
- Design and build scalable APIs and backend services that support millions of real-time user interactions
- Own core infrastructure across streaming, payments, auctions, and real-time bidding
- Improve performance, reliability, and observability across the stack
- Collaborate across teams to ship systems that are fast, resilient, and developer-friendly
- Help define and evolve backend best practices as we scale the team
Location: This is a remote role, but you may be occasionally asked to work from co-working spaces in Toronto .
Who You Are You’re an ambitious and entrepreneurial engineer who wants to help build something iconic. You’re motivated by impact, not ego. You move quickly, sweat the details, and love working with others who do the same.
We’re looking for:
- 5+ years of experience building production-grade systems
- Experience working in early-stage startups or high-growth environments
- Expertise in the Node.js ecosystem
- Strong understanding of backend architecture and scalable system design
- Deep experience with AWS and infrastructure-as-code (ideally with TypeScript CDK)
- Fluency with relational databases and data modeling
- A clear communicator—written, visual, and verbal
- Self-directed and comfortable in a high-autonomy, low-ego culture
Bonus points for:
- Experience with NestJS or similar backend frameworks
- Familiarity with GraphQL APIs
- Knowledge of document databases like MongoDB or DynamoDB
- Exposure to frontend frameworks (Vue or React)
Our Stack
- Frontend: Vue, TypeScript
- Backend: Node.js, NestJS, GraphQL
- Infra: AWS, TypeScript CDK, Docker
- Mobile: Native iOS (Swift), Native Android (Kotlin) with shared KMP layer
Why Tilt
- You’ll be joining a mission-driven team backed by world-class investors (TechCrunch)
- You’ll own meaningful systems from day one, with real scope and autonomy
- You’ll work alongside curious, kind, and wickedly smart teammates
- You’ll help redefine how millions of people shop online
Curious what it’s like to work at Tilt? Start here.
Or just download the app on the UK App Store and see for yourself.
Compensation Range: CA$150K - CA$200K
About Tilt
Save time, stay compliant and save money while creating the best leave experience for your employees. Tilt is a third-party leave administration software built with our own proprietary technology and automation, backed by leave law experts, software engineers, and Leave Success Managers that blend software and the human touch.
The problem is that you’re overworked, unsure, and unsupported. The average leave takes 25 hours to manually manage, and getting it wrong can mean lawsuits which can end up costing nearly $78,000. You want a smoother process and assurance that you’re legally compliant, but: you don’t have the bandwidth, time, budget, or expertise, and great dedicated leave management that works is hard to find.
Confusing spreadsheets, random email chains or not offering anything are just temporary fixes that end up costing your company thousands of dollars each year while you and your employees are left feeling lost. You need a solution that will scale for you and with you.
That’s why Tilt was created. To make leave NOT suck.
Sparked by one too many unjust leave experiences, our Founder and CEO Jen Henderson has been leading this charge since 2017 because she knew there had to be a better way. And it’s here. With streamlined processes, an HR dashboard, employee views, compliance and management for all leave types, HRIS integration, payroll calculations, and a dedicated Tilter for you and your employee to offer support through the entire journey. Tilt will save you time, money, and undue stress.
When an employee requests a leave, we’ll automatically determine eligibility, create custom step-by-step instructions, track FMLA usage along with any other time they quality for, calculate their payroll, and put in all in one place for you and them to see.
Finally, have time to be there for your people and help your company thrive, but for a price you can invest in.
Book some time to chat with us.
https://hellotilt.com/
Senior Backend Engineer, Core
Top Benefits
About the role
About Tilt 🛸 We’re building the next century of shopping—making it feel human, communal, and alive again. E-commerce has spent decades optimizing for clicks, stripping away the trust, joy, and connection that once made shopping meaningful.
We’ve recently raised an $18M Series A from the world’s best investors to build the next era of commerce. Now, we’re hiring elite builders to make it happen.
About The Role We're looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to help architect and scale the systems that power Tilt—from livestreams and checkout to auctions, personalization, and payments. You'll join our Core team: a small, high-leverage group responsible for foundational infrastructure, performance, and reliability.
This role is for builders who thrive in fast-moving environments, think like owners, and aren’t afraid to dive deep into gnarly systems problems. You’ll collaborate closely with product engineers, infra specialists, data scientists, and leadership.
In this role, you will:
- Design and build scalable APIs and backend services that support millions of real-time user interactions
- Own core infrastructure across streaming, payments, auctions, and real-time bidding
- Improve performance, reliability, and observability across the stack
- Collaborate across teams to ship systems that are fast, resilient, and developer-friendly
- Help define and evolve backend best practices as we scale the team
Location: This is a remote role, but you may be occasionally asked to work from co-working spaces in Toronto .
Who You Are You’re an ambitious and entrepreneurial engineer who wants to help build something iconic. You’re motivated by impact, not ego. You move quickly, sweat the details, and love working with others who do the same.
We’re looking for:
- 5+ years of experience building production-grade systems
- Experience working in early-stage startups or high-growth environments
- Expertise in the Node.js ecosystem
- Strong understanding of backend architecture and scalable system design
- Deep experience with AWS and infrastructure-as-code (ideally with TypeScript CDK)
- Fluency with relational databases and data modeling
- A clear communicator—written, visual, and verbal
- Self-directed and comfortable in a high-autonomy, low-ego culture
Bonus points for:
- Experience with NestJS or similar backend frameworks
- Familiarity with GraphQL APIs
- Knowledge of document databases like MongoDB or DynamoDB
- Exposure to frontend frameworks (Vue or React)
Our Stack
- Frontend: Vue, TypeScript
- Backend: Node.js, NestJS, GraphQL
- Infra: AWS, TypeScript CDK, Docker
- Mobile: Native iOS (Swift), Native Android (Kotlin) with shared KMP layer
Why Tilt
- You’ll be joining a mission-driven team backed by world-class investors (TechCrunch)
- You’ll own meaningful systems from day one, with real scope and autonomy
- You’ll work alongside curious, kind, and wickedly smart teammates
- You’ll help redefine how millions of people shop online
Curious what it’s like to work at Tilt? Start here.
Or just download the app on the UK App Store and see for yourself.
Compensation Range: CA$150K - CA$200K
About Tilt
Save time, stay compliant and save money while creating the best leave experience for your employees. Tilt is a third-party leave administration software built with our own proprietary technology and automation, backed by leave law experts, software engineers, and Leave Success Managers that blend software and the human touch.
The problem is that you’re overworked, unsure, and unsupported. The average leave takes 25 hours to manually manage, and getting it wrong can mean lawsuits which can end up costing nearly $78,000. You want a smoother process and assurance that you’re legally compliant, but: you don’t have the bandwidth, time, budget, or expertise, and great dedicated leave management that works is hard to find.
Confusing spreadsheets, random email chains or not offering anything are just temporary fixes that end up costing your company thousands of dollars each year while you and your employees are left feeling lost. You need a solution that will scale for you and with you.
That’s why Tilt was created. To make leave NOT suck.
Sparked by one too many unjust leave experiences, our Founder and CEO Jen Henderson has been leading this charge since 2017 because she knew there had to be a better way. And it’s here. With streamlined processes, an HR dashboard, employee views, compliance and management for all leave types, HRIS integration, payroll calculations, and a dedicated Tilter for you and your employee to offer support through the entire journey. Tilt will save you time, money, and undue stress.
When an employee requests a leave, we’ll automatically determine eligibility, create custom step-by-step instructions, track FMLA usage along with any other time they quality for, calculate their payroll, and put in all in one place for you and them to see.
Finally, have time to be there for your people and help your company thrive, but for a price you can invest in.
Book some time to chat with us.
https://hellotilt.com/