Senior/Staff Backend Engineer, Payments Reliability

Canopy•South Jordan, UT

4d•Remote

About The Position

We are hiring a Senior/Staff Backend Engineer to help evolve and strengthen Canopy’s payments and billing infrastructure. As our platform grows, we are investing in building a robust, scalable payments foundation with strong engineering standards, operational controls, and reliability best practices. This role will be a key technical leader in shaping how payments workflows are designed, implemented, and maintained across the organization. You’ll work cross-functionally with product, engineering, QA, and operations to ensure payments systems remain resilient, observable, and easy to safely extend as new capabilities are introduced.

Requirements

At least 5 years of web development experience (Python required, Java/Kotlin preferred)
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent work experience
Strong experience working with payment processors as well as building and operating distributed systems in production
Deep understanding of backend reliability principles, including safe retries, consistency, and fault tolerance
Knowledge of RESTful API principles and conventions
Passion for building innovative, scalable solutions that have real customer impact
Ability to work well on a highly collaborative team and with other cross functional stakeholders
Able to coordinate and lead out on large initiatives that can span several teams
Ability to communicate well across teams and departments to promote ideas while showing mutual respect for others’ opinions

Nice To Haves

An interest for AI development and following the latest updates in the space
Experience working with microservices
Experience with leveraging 3rd party APIs and integrations

Responsibilities

Lead the design and development of core backend services supporting payments and billing workflows
Implement microservice endpoints using Python, PostgreSQL, Redis, RabbitMQ, and anything else you need to get the job done
Establish and enforce engineering patterns for safe payment execution, including idempotency, auditability, and fault tolerance
Build shared infrastructure and APIs that enable teams to integrate with payments in a consistent, reliable way
Improve observability through logging, monitoring, tracing, and operational alerting
Develop testing strategies and harnesses that validate real-world failure scenarios and edge cases
Partner with product and engineering leaders to define a long-term roadmap for payments platform improvements
Mentor engineers and raise the bar on backend quality, resilience, and technical decision-making
Participate in architectural reviews and guide best practices across teams
Participate in interviews of candidates to help us continue to hire the best

Benefits

Flexible Paid Time Off - you’re actually encouraged to use, plus 10 company holidays!
Health Benefits - including Medical, Dental, and Vision and an HSA Match.
401(k) - we match 100% up to 3% of your contribution. Eligibility is immediate with 100% vesting.
Mental Health - all employees have access to Impact Suite & to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
Paid New Parent Leave & Birthing Parent Leave - so you’re able to care for your little ones.
Supplemental Benefits - including 100% company paid Basic Life & AD&D insurance and long & short-term disability coverage.
Nectar - our peer-to-peer recognition program to help our employees recognize the amazing work being done by other Canopians!
Company Events - including monthly company-wide meetings, summer parties, and more.
ERG Committees - to plan initiatives around continuing education, community outreach, recruiting, onboarding, and more.
Fully-stocked kitchen - Keto? Vegan? Flexitarian? Mandalorian? We’ve got you covered.