[Hiring] Senior Backend Engineer @Capgemini

Role Description

We're looking for a senior backend engineer to help design, migrate, and operate the power ingestion, processing, storage, and lifecycle management of user- and listing-generated media (images, video, and documents) across our platform. This role sits at the intersection of platform migration, data compliance, and service reliability — you'll own multi-quarter modernization efforts while ensuring the pipeline meets strict privacy and trust requirements.

• Drive platform migrations end-to-end — design and execute the migration of legacy media-processing services onto a modern replacement platform, including data-model design, dual-write/backfill strategies, phased cutovers, and legacy cleanup.
• Build event-driven processing pipelines — design Kafka/event-schema-based consumers and producers to power asynchronous media-processing workflows (state machines, checkpoints, retries, idempotency guarantees).
• Own trust & privacy compliance in the data path — implement GDPR-compliant hard-deletion workflows across storage and CDN layers, integrate personal-data-detection and content-integrity checks into upload/creation flows, and build safe-content transformation pipelines for user-uploaded files.
• Integrate third-party media infrastructure — build and maintain integrations with external transcoding/processing vendors, including webhook handling, rate limiting, and failure handling.
• Ensure operational excellence — write on-call runbooks and alerting for critical endpoints, manage service-mesh permissions between internal services, tune consumer/throughput settings, and resolve reliability issues (memory, latency, backpressure).
• Evolve core data models and APIs — design and extend database schemas and GraphQL/API layers supporting media entities, with a focus on idempotency, consistency, and backward compatibility during migrations.
• Partner cross-functionally — work with trust & safety, privacy, and adjacent platform teams to translate compliance and product requirements into pipeline changes.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend software engineering experience, ideally on high-scale distributed systems.
• Strong experience with event-driven architectures (Kafka or equivalent), service meshes, and microservice-to-microservice integration.
• Experience owning large-scale service migrations — designing safe cutover strategies, backfills, and rollback plans.
• Solid grounding in relational/NoSQL data modeling and schema evolution.
• Experience with caching layers (Redis or similar), CDC/change-data-capture pipelines, and cache invalidation strategies.
• Comfort with operational ownership: writing alerts, runbooks, and debugging production incidents.
• Experience with media/video processing pipelines, third-party transcoding vendors, or content-safety systems.

Requirements

• The base compensation range for this role in the posted location is: CAD 72,056 to CAD 138,940.
• Capgemini provides compensation range information in accordance with applicable national, state, provincial, and local pay transparency laws.
• The actual compensation offered to any candidate may fall outside of the posted range and will be determined based on multiple factors legally permitted in the applicable jurisdiction.
• In addition to base salary, this role may be eligible for additional compensation such as variable incentives, bonuses, or commissions, depending on the position and applicable laws.

Benefits

• Paid time off based on employee grade (A-F), defined by policy: Vacation: 12-25 days, depending on grade, Company paid holidays, Personal Days, Sick Leave.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage (or provincial healthcare coordination in Canada).
• Retirement savings plans (e.g., 401(k) in the U.S., RRSP in Canada).
• Life and disability insurance.
• Employee assistance programs.
• Other benefits as provided by local policy and eligibility.