[Hiring] Senior Platform Engineer @GrowthLoop

Role Description

As a Senior Platform Engineer, you’ll build the backend systems that power GrowthLoop! The Platform team owns our query execution engine, our Journey orchestration logic, and our export delivery. This role is central to making GrowthLoop dependable as we grow, and you’ll have meaningful ownership of the systems our product and customers rely on every day.

What You'll Do

• Build and operate backend services that move data through GrowthLoop, from warehouse queries to downstream systems.
• Improve how those services handle incoming events, execute queries, transform results, and coordinate delivery.
• Dig into customer problems, identify practical solutions, and test and measure whether those solutions work.
• Build and maintain APIs and integrations across major cloud data warehouses, and support the product’s move toward real-time capabilities.
• Participate in the platform team’s on-call rotation, responding to production issues, working with teammates to restore service, keeping the right people informed, and using what you learn to improve reliability.
• Find and fix problems that affect correctness, speed, reliability, security, and ease of operation as the platform grows.
• Build shared components, automation, documentation, and tools that reduce repeated work and make common tasks easier.
• Help your fellow engineers do good work through clear code reviews, context sharing, mentoring, early communication, and follow-through.
• Leverage AI tools every day in your day-to-day work, and help to build GrowthLoop’s ML & agentic products.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of production coding experience, with a strong foundation in Python, building and scaling services that help engineering teams do their best work.
• Experience in a startup or high-growth environment.
• Deep experience designing, building, and maintaining services, with end-to-end ownership including on-call.
• Experience with backend-heavy systems and distributed architectures, including working with GCP or AWS and building for reliability, security, and observability at scale.
• Lives on the bleeding edge - you wield frontier tech (e.g., AI agents) to amplify speed, quality, and impact.
• Thrives in ambiguity - you map constraints, surface hard questions early, and drive clarity.
• Embodies a learner’s mindset - you ask, absorb, and act fast.
• Exothermic in everything you do - you energize people, projects, and teams.

Benefits

• The salary range for this role is $160,000-$175,000 CAD. Final base salary decisions will be based on a variety of non-discriminatory factors unique to each candidate, such as the individual’s skill set, depth of experience, and qualifications.
• Spot bonuses for major milestones and product feature launches.
• Clear opportunities for career progression and cross-functional collaboration.
• Equity in GrowthLoop, so you share in the value you help create.
• Flexible, Remote-First Work with a remote-first culture.
• Flexible, goal-based work style.
• Flexible Time Off.
• Monthly company-wide Recharge Days to truly unplug.
• Annual home office stipend to support your workspace.
• Comprehensive Benefits including full health, dental, vision, life, and disability coverage for Canadian employees (fully employer-paid).
• 401(k) or RRSP program with a generous company match.
• Quarterly hackathons focused on team passion projects.
• Annual professional development stipend.
• Work directly with our founders and a world-class executive team.

Company Description

GrowthLoop built the first composable CDP, helping marketers leverage live, first-party data from their cloud warehouse to launch highly targeted campaigns. That composable foundation gave way to the Compound Marketing Engine, an evolution of the composable CDP that drives compound growth by using agentic AI to accelerate the marketing cycle.

Now, we’re building what comes next: an agentic system that uses causality data to find the actions that actually improve customer outcomes and gets smarter with every campaign cycle.

Founder-led, we’re partnering with the world’s most innovative brands to close the loop between people, data, and AI. Enterprise marketing teams at Google, Costco, Ford, and Whirlpool, to name a few, choose GrowthLoop to launch smarter, more personalized marketing programs that compound growth with every campaign.