[Hiring] Senior Backend Software Engineer, Integrations @Event Temple

Role Description

We are seeking a full-time Senior Backend Software Engineer, Integrations to help build and scale our third-party integrations and API ecosystem.

Location: The candidate must be based in Nova Scotia, Canada (remote friendly).

Who You Are:

• You are passionate about backend engineering and building reliable, scalable connections between systems.
• You have strong experience designing and implementing third-party API integrations in production environments.
• You understand integration patterns such as webhooks, asynchronous processing, event-driven systems, and real-time data synchronization.
• You are comfortable working with external APIs that may have inconsistent documentation, strict rate limits, unexpected behaviour, or varying levels of reliability.
• You enjoy investigating complex problems across multiple systems and finding practical, durable solutions.
• You value observability, system reliability, and building integrations that work consistently at scale.

What Will You Do?

• Design and implement reliable, high-performance integrations with third-party APIs.
• Build integrations with property management systems, payment gateways, hospitality platforms, and other external services.
• Contribute to technical and architectural decisions for our growing integration ecosystem.
• Build and improve systems for monitoring integration health, API performance, failures, and data consistency.
• Develop resilient integration workflows using retries, idempotency, rate limiting, error handling, and graceful degradation.
• Collaborate with integration partners on technical requirements, API specifications, testing, and implementation details.
• Investigate and resolve complex production issues across Event Temple and external systems.
• Improve the scalability and reliability of background processing and synchronization workflows.
• Work with other engineers to establish and share best practices for APIs, integrations, and distributed systems.
• Participate in technical discussions with partner engineering teams and contribute to integration planning.

This is a senior individual-contributor role. You will be expected to work independently, take ownership of complex technical problems, and collaborate closely with the broader engineering team.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Significant experience building and maintaining third-party API integrations in production.
• Strong backend development experience using Ruby on Rails or another modern server-side framework.
• The ability and interest to become productive in Ruby on Rails.
• Experience designing reliable systems for high-volume, multi-tenant applications.
• A strong understanding of REST APIs, webhooks, authentication, asynchronous processing, and background jobs.
• Experience handling retries, idempotency, rate limits, timeouts, partial failures, and data consistency.
• Experience with observability practices, including monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting.
• Experience investigating and debugging complex issues across distributed systems.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• The ability to work independently while collaborating effectively with engineers, product teams, and external partners.

Requirements

• Professional experience with Ruby on Rails.
• Experience with Sidekiq, Redis, and background job processing.
• Experience with hospitality industry APIs, including property management systems, booking engines, or payment processors.
• Experience with integration platforms, ETL systems, or data pipelines.
• Experience working directly with external engineering teams, vendors, or integration partners.
• Knowledge of event-driven architecture and messaging systems.
• Knowledge of API gateway patterns, OAuth, rate limiting, and integration security.
• Experience supporting partner developers or technical enablement.
• Experience working in a SaaS or multi-tenant product environment.

Benefits

• Friendly co-workers.
• Work From Home/Remote.
• Health and dental benefits.
• Casual dress code (obv.).
• Competitive compensation.
• Building a company and being a part of a success story.
• The opportunity to have a meaningful impact on a growing product.