Who you are

• Experience: 8+ years of professional background in backend engineering with a focus on platform, infrastructure, or shared services at scale
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent professional experience
• Advanced Backend Mastery: Experience in building and maintaining reusable software libraries and frameworks, with deep expertise in Python(Django) and containerization tools
• Expert Technical Knowledge: Extensive proficiency in designing and scaling various inter-service communication methods and patterns, including synchronous and asynchronous systems such as Kafka(Avro), SQS, and gRPC(Protobuf)
• Infrastructure Systems Experience: Expertise in how backend code interacts with Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS-native services at high scale
• Architectural Design Skills: Proven ability to create developer-first tools and a thorough competency in GraphQL gateway that simplifies complex integrations while maintaining technical capability
• Strategic Problem Solving: Experience identifying and phasing out redundant technical patterns across an organization to drive toward a unified, efficient stack
• Communication: Exceptional written and oral communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical trade-offs

What the job involves

• As Senior Software Engineer on our Platform team, you will design, build, and maintain the evolution of Wave’s backend ecosystem, owning the reusable software stack that powers every service
• This role focuses on defining the Golden Path for frameworks and communication, ensuring our stack is standardized, secure, and provides a best-in-class developer experience for the entire engineering org
• Standardize Shared Components: Maintain a single, recommended pattern for web frameworks, container images, and libraries to ensure consistency across the organization
• Streamline System Communication: Architect the frameworks used for both real-time and background messaging between services to ensure data flows efficiently and reliably
• Build Developer Centric Wrappers: Create and maintain sophisticated libraries that wrap shared components, making them easy to integrate while preserving the configurability and debug-ability developers need
• Drive Software Lifecycle: Oversee regular updates for all shared backend components to protect the platform and ensure compatibility with the latest standards
• Technical Leadership: Lead complex cross-team migrations and architectural reviews, ensuring that platform-level changes are implemented smoothly across the broader engineering organization

Benefits

• Work From Where You Work Best: We will always have a welcoming, energizing, and world-class office (in Toronto) with a space for you. Or, if you’re more comfortable working from home, the choice is yours
• We Care About Future You: You will stretch yourself and you will grow at Wave. You will also be supported on this journey with diverse learning experiences, educational allowances, mentorship, and so much more
• We Support the Full You: We make a serious investment in your health & wellness. When we think about benefits we think about body, mind, & soul and we take this stuff very seriously
• We Take Care of the Fundamentals: Fair compensation, all the office perks you’d want, and the various goodies you’d expect from a growing tech company. This is the obvious stuff, but we don’t want you to think we forgot!