[Hiring] Staff Backend Developer @Parallels Inc

Role Description

We’re looking for an experienced Staff Backend Developer to help us change the way the world works, with anytime, anywhere, any-device productivity. Here, you’ll lead the architectural vision and technical strategy for our core systems, focusing heavily on high-level design, cloud apps architecture, and system boundaries.

As a Staff Backend Developer, you will:

• Build scalable, fault-tolerant backend systems to support evolving product needs.
• Participate in designing and leading the strategic decomposition of a mature Django application into scalable, asynchronous microservices.
• Design scalable, reliable systems that span multiple engineering teams, working closely with DevOps and Product.
• Establish, enforce, and iterate on engineering best practices, API design standards, and deployment protocols.
• Partner directly with Product leadership and Staff/Principal peers to map high-level business objectives to concrete technical execution and capacity planning.
• Elevate the engineering organization by actively mentoring both junior and senior developers, fostering knowledge sharing, and conducting rigorous architecture reviews.
• Stay current with backend and cloud technologies, evaluate and adopt new technologies to continuously improve system efficiency.
• Document architecture and mentor junior engineers to foster knowledge sharing.

Qualifications

• Extensive Backend Experience with a proven track record in principal or architect-level roles designing complex, distributed systems.
• Extensive experience designing, building, and scaling distributed backend systems and microservices architectures.
• Expert-level knowledge of Python internals, memory management, and advanced frameworks (Django, FastAPI).
• Deep expertise in SQL/NoSQL databases at scale (schema design, complex query optimization, sharding, replication, caching) and ORM tools (Django, SQLAlchemy).
• Mastery of asynchronous processing and message-broker/streaming platforms (RabbitMQ, Kafka, Celery).
• Expert-level experience with observability, distributed tracing, and APM tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK) to diagnose systemic bottlenecks.
• Production expertise with Kubernetes, container orchestration, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for CI/CD pipelines.
• Solid foundation in designing RESTful APIs, authentication protocols (OAuth2, OIDC, SAML).
• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.

Requirements

• Nice to have: Experience with Azure as a cloud platform.
• Nice to have: Experience designing and implementing GraphQL APIs.
• Nice to have: Experience with Kubernetes or other orchestration tools.
• Nice to have: Polyglot background (e.g., experience with Golang, Rust, or C++ for performance-critical domains).

Benefits

• Total Compensation Range: $110,000 - 124,000 CAD.