Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Backend (US - Remote or Calgary)

Syndio•Home, WV

4d•$180,000 - $210,000•Remote

About The Position

Syndio is seeking a Senior or Staff level Backend Engineer to join their core platform engineering group. This is a high-autonomy role on a focused team where the engineer will design, build, and scale high-throughput distributed systems that power the company's core backend services. The role involves end-to-end ownership of systems, including API design, data modeling, deploying resilient infrastructure, and monitoring production performance. The company's mission is to help organizations build smarter compensation strategies and ensure fair pay for all employees using their leading pay governance and compensation intelligence platform.

Requirements

7+ years building and operating backend systems in production.
Deep comfort with Go and Python, with strong experience building concurrent, high-performance systems.
Strong database fundamentals with Postgres and relational ORMs, including query optimization and schema migration strategies.
Experience building and maintaining event-driven architectures with Kafka.
Expertise designing production APIs across REST, GraphQL, or gRPC.
Hands-on experience with cloud environments (GCP and/or AWS), Infrastructure as Code via Terraform, and continuous delivery via GitHub Actions.
Operational mindset: familiarity with observability, distributed tracing, and metrics tooling in Datadog.
Strong written communication to author design docs and lead clear PR reviews.
Own a technical domain with light supervision: propose direction in writing with clear specs, take review, ship, and carry the pager for what you shipped.

Responsibilities

Design, ship, and operate core distributed microservices written in Go and Python.
Build real-time event streaming and data processing pipelines using Kafka.
Architect performant, flexible API interfaces across REST, GraphQL, and gRPC protocols.
Design efficient schemas and optimize query performance for relational storage using Postgres and modern ORMs.
Provision, maintain, and scale cloud infrastructure across GCP and AWS using Terraform and GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines.
Ensure high reliability, low latency, and operational visibility across backend systems using Datadog.