Senior Software Engineer I
SurveyMonkey•Ottawa, ON
•CA$103,200 - CA$129,000•Hybrid
About The Position
SurveyMonkey is seeking a motivated Senior Software Engineer I (Backend) to join the User team in Canada. This team is responsible for Authentication & Authorization within the SurveyMonkey product, as well as providing backend services for managing user accounts and teams. The ideal candidate will have a passion for service ownership, AuthN + AuthZ, and ensuring user account state is maintained, while collaborating with other teams to deliver customer value across SurveyMonkey's product portfolio.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in backend application development
- Experience with Python and web frameworks like Fast API, Flask, Pyramid
- Understanding of Restful APIs
- Familiarity with version control systems (Git preferred)
- Basic understanding of software design patterns
- Expertise in designing and building world-class services and APIs
- Experience with developing and maintaining SSO integrations (SAML, OIDC)
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to work with both co-located and remote engineers and cross-functional partners
- A growth/data mindset in approaching challenges
Nice To Haves
- Strong interest in AI and experience with AI coding tools such as Cursor or Claude Code to accelerate your work
- Basic knowledge of SQL databases, experience with ElasticSearch/OpenSearch
- Experience with Kubernetes, Helm Charts, and Terraform
- Experience with messaging and streaming frameworks like Kafka, Apache Spark, etc.
Responsibilities
- Building and maintaining user and team management services across multiple data-regions
- Contributing to the core authorization platform, which contains centralized business logic around permission management
- Supporting and improving authentication workflows
- Cross-collaboration with frontend and backend teams needing features in the user/team space
- Writing clean, maintainable, and efficient code
- Identifying and fixing bugs, and optimizing performance issues
- Participating in code reviews and implementing feedback
- Fostering a culture of collaboration, testing, code reviews, and mentorship
Benefits
- medical
- dental
- vision
- life
- disability insurance
- RRSP matching
- flexible spending & health savings account
- paid holidays
- paid time off
- employee assistance program
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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