Software Engineer, Integrations (US + Calgary)

Syndio

21h•Remote

About The Position

Syndio is seeking a Software Engineer to build, maintain, and manage integration platforms that provide scalable, reliable, and secure data flows across systems. The role focuses on designing, building, and optimizing workflows; managing connectors and APIs; and supporting integration performance. It will help shape the company’s data ingestion platform, which supports customer onboarding and the analyses built on customer data. The engineer will develop native connections to HRIS, ATS, and payroll systems, addressing authentication, pagination, rate limits, schema changes, and partial failures. They will improve data refresh performance at scale, make sync errors actionable for customers and Customer Success, and expand the implementation platform in collaboration with Forward Deployed Engineering and Implementation. The work spans a distributed system including a Go API, Temporal workflows, a Python transformation engine, and a customer-facing frontend. The role also involves establishing reusable engineering patterns, documentation, and error-handling conventions. Syndio describes the position as remote-first within commuting distance of Calgary and requires the candidate to be based in Calgary and legally authorized to work in Alberta without current or future visa support. Compensation is targeted at $125,000–$148,000 CAD annually in Canada or $140,000–$160,000 USD in the United States, with final offers based on experience and expertise.

Requirements

At least 4 years of experience building and shipping production software, with solid backend fundamentals.
Python and/or Go experience preferred.
Hands-on experience building or maintaining integrations with third-party APIs, including REST/SOAP, webhooks, OAuth and API-key authentication, pagination, rate limiting, and upstream schema changes.
Experience with data pipelines and orchestration, including scheduling, retries, sequencing, and monitoring workflows across systems.
Solid SQL skills and the ability to reason about data models and transformations.
Familiarity with HRIS, ATS, CRM, or ERP systems and their data models.
Strong documentation habits and a commitment to making work understandable to others.
Strong collaboration and communication skills with technical and non-technical teams.
Based in Calgary and legally authorized to work in Alberta without additional visa support now or in the future.
Experience with sensitive data and attention to security, privacy, and compliance practices.
Comfort working in a remote environment and intentionally building strong working relationships.

Nice To Haves

Frontend experience with TypeScript/React or equivalent, and interest in building customer-facing integration features.
Experience with iPaaS tools such as Workato, Boomi, MuleSoft, Tray.io, or Celigo, and a perspective on when to build versus buy integrations.
Experience with workflow orchestration engines such as Temporal or Airflow.
Experience with file-based ingestion at scale, including SFTP, CSV, flat-file pipelines, and associated validation.

Responsibilities

Build, maintain, and manage integration platforms that support scalable, reliable, and secure data flows.
Design, build, and optimize integration workflows, connectors, and APIs.
Develop native integrations with HRIS, ATS, and payroll APIs, handling authentication, pagination, rate limits, schema drift, and partial failures.
Improve data refresh performance as customer datasets and source systems scale.
Turn sync errors into clear, actionable feedback for customers and Customer Success.
Collaborate with Forward Deployed Engineering and Implementation to expand the implementation platform and its capabilities.
Work across the Go API, Temporal workflows, Python transformation engine, and customer-facing frontend to diagnose and resolve problems.
Establish integration patterns, documentation, and error-handling conventions.
Support integration performance and troubleshoot cross-system data-flow issues.
Manage and optimize existing integrations and build new standard integration workflows.
Design advanced integration architectures and contribute to enterprise-level governance standards.
Collaborate on projects across engineering and customer success teams.