Q Wealth Partners
Senior Back-End Engineer
Q Wealth PartnersCanada5 days ago
ContractEngineering, Information Technology
Development and Technology Operations duties, including but not limited to

  • Architect, develop, and maintain scalable back-end services and APIs across the our proprietary QSuite platform.
  • Lead refactoring and modernization efforts with a focus on reliability, performance, and long-term maintainability.
  • Create and maintain comprehensive test coverage (unit, integration, load tests) to ensure system stability.
  • Collaborate closely with Technology, Product, and Operations teams to design solutions that aligned with business needs.
  • Participate in and elevate code reviews, promoting best practices and engineering standards.
  • Mentor junior and intermediate developers through guidance, pairing, and technical leadership.
  • Contribute to improvements in CI/CD workflows, observability, and infrastructure reliability.
  • Other responsibilities as dictated by the needs of Platform Development.

Technologies

  • Strong understanding of back-end architecture, API design, system design, and large-scale service development.
  • Expertise in Python development using Flask, FastAPI, and SQLAlchemy.
  • Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases, including schema design, optimization, and data modeling (MySQL, DynamoDB, etc.).
  • Experience with big data processing and ETL workflows.
  • Containerization proficiency: Docker, Docker Compose, and Kubernetes.
  • Observability tooling experience (Prometheus, Grafana, Sentry, logging/metrics/tracing fundamentals).
  • Experience building in both serverless and traditional server-based compute models (AWS Lambda, ECS/EKS, EC2).
  • Cloud experience (preferably AWS): S3, Lambda, RDS, DynamoDB, SQS/SNS, IAM.
  • Familiarity with Javascript/Typescript and Node.js for integration or full-stack collaboration.
  • Understanding of modern CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure-as-Code (AWS CDK/CloudFormation).
  • Security-first mindset with knowledge of secure coding practices, secrets management, and data privacy expectations (SOC2).
  • Other needs as dictated by the business.

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