Backend Developer

Job Title: Backend Developer

Job Type: Permanent Full-Time

Work Model: Hybrid

Location: 18 Auriga Drive

Job Status: Existing Vacancy

Position Summary

As a Backend Developer on our Prediction Markets team you will help build and maintain a secure multi-tenant prediction-market platform designed for Latin American markets. You will contribute to APIs databases integrations background processing real-time services financial workflows and production support.

Responsibilities

Backend Application Development

• Design implement test and maintain backend services using PHP and Laravel.
• Develop background jobs scheduled tasks queue-driven workflows and retry processes.
• Support real-time updates using Redis Laravel Reverb and WebSockets.
• Contribute to market-data imports price feeds resolution monitoring and market localization.
• Contribute to ledger fee reconciliation and reporting workflows.

API & Integration Development

• Develop REST and GraphQL APIs for public administrative and integration use cases.
• Integrate with external transactional sportsbook wallet market-data and trading APIs.
• Maintain backward compatibility when changing APIs database structures GraphQL schemas or event contracts.
• Implement explicit handling for timeouts retries duplicate messages rate limits stale data and partial failures.

Database & Data Management

• Create and maintain PostgreSQL database schemas migrations relationships indexes and queries.
• Build and maintain deterministic financial reports audit trails and data exports.

Security Compliance & Governance

• Implement request validation authentication authorization role-based access control and audit logging.
• Build and maintain audit trails and reporting capabilities to support compliance and traceability.
• Ensure tenant data isolation and secure access controls within multi-tenant environments.

Platform Architecture & Multi-Tenant Solutions

• Contribute to multi-tenant application development domain-based tenant resolution and tenant data isolation.
• Design and support scalable resilient backend services and distributed processing workflows.
• Maintain compatibility across evolving application data and integration architectures.

Quality Assurance Testing & Reliability

• Write and maintain unit integration API queue-processing security and multi-tenant tests.
• Diagnose application database queue cache real-time and external-integration failures.
• Implement resilient processing patterns for fault tolerance recovery and operational stability.

Production Operations & Support

• Contribute to deployment readiness operational documentation observability and incident follow-up.
• Participate in the weekly Tier 3 on-call rotation investigating escalated production issues and working with Service Desk Technical Support infrastructure teams external partners and engineering team members to restore service.
• Support production monitoring troubleshooting root-cause analysis and service restoration activities.

Agile Development & Engineering Practices

• Participate in estimation technical design code reviews and continuous improvement.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality software solutions and operational enhancements.
• Contribute to engineering standards knowledge sharing and best practices.

Qualifications :

Mandatory Qualifications

• Legally eligible to work in Canada
• Fluent in English (speak read write)
• Able to work an on-call rotation of 1 week on/7 weeks off

Minimum Qualifications

• 2 years of backend development experience
• Experience developing and supporting backend applications using PHP and Laravel.
• Experience designing and maintaining REST APIs and service-based applications.
• Experience working with relational databases SQL and database design concepts.
• Experience implementing secure application-development practices including authentication authorization and validation.
• Experience developing background jobs queue-based processing and automated tests.
• Experience with Git Docker and modern software development practices including CI/CD.
• Strong troubleshooting problem-solving communication and collaboration skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Degree or diploma in Computer Science Software Engineering or related field
• 5 years of backend development experience
• Experience with PostgreSQL Redis GraphQL WebSockets or event-driven architectures.
• Experience developing multi-tenant distributed or cloud-native applications.
• Experience with AWS services and containerized infrastructure.
• Experience with Laravel ecosystem technologies such as Horizon Nova Sanctum Octane or tenancy frameworks.
• Experience with application monitoring observability performance tuning and operational support.
• Knowledge of secure software development practices including OWASP principles role-based access control and audit logging.
• Experience in financial services payment processing fintech gaming lottery or other regulated industries.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools and experience with financial reporting reconciliation or transaction-processing systems.

Additional Information :

Equal Opportunity Statement

Our organization is committed to employment equity and diversity in the workplace. We actively encourage applications from women Indigenous Peoples persons with disabilities members of visible minorities and LGBTQ2 individuals.

We are dedicated to removing barriers and fostering an inclusive workplace that reflects society and we are committed to providing an accessible and inclusive recruitment process in accordance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA).

If you require accommodation at any stage of the hiring process please contact us at  so that appropriate arrangements can be made.

AI Use in Recruitment Statement

As part of our commitment to transparency and fairness in hiring we disclose that artificial intelligence (AI) tools may be used at certain stages of our recruitment process. These tools assist in tasks such as resume screening candidate matching and interview scheduling. All AI-assisted decisions are subject to human oversight to ensure fairness accuracy and compliance with applicable laws.

We are committed to the responsible transparent and accountable use of AI in alignment with Ontarios Responsible Use of Artificial Intelligence Directive and the requirements under the Working for Workers Four Act. This includes taking steps to mitigate bias protect candidate privacy and ensure that AI does not unfairly influence hiring outcomes.

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Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time