Senior Software Engineer Backend

We are seeking a highly motivated Senior Software Engineer to join our growing engineering team. This role offers an exciting opportunity to design and build scalable production grade backend systems that power mission-critical applications within the broadcast and media technology domain.

As a Senior Software Engineer you will combine strong software engineering fundamentals with modern AI-assisted development practices. You will work on the microservices and backend platform building systems designed to handle concurrency timing and data consistency at scale.

Key Qualification Requirements:

• 5 years of software engineering experience in a strongly typed language; Java preferred (Python Rust Go C or C# also considered)
• Strong experience with Java Spring Boot and scalable backend development
• Proficient in using AI coding tools (e.g. Claude GitHub Copilot) and validating AI-generated code for correctness security and maintainability
• Expertise in AWS cloud-native applications and microservices architecture
• Hands-on experience with Lambda API Gateway DynamoDB SQS and serverless technologies
• Familiarity with prompt engineering and MCP servers
• Strong knowledge of concurrency data structures design patterns and OOP
• Experience building distributed systems real-time processing platforms or other large-scale backend services
• Proven skills in production debugging monitoring and incident investigation
• Comfortable contributing to large complex codebases

Additional Skills That Will Be Useful

• Java ecosystem: Java frameworks Gradle JUnit Mockito
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools and workflows such as Jenkins Git and CodePipeline
• Prior experience in broadcast media or real-time systems

What Youll Do:

• Design and develop backend microservices for the SaaS platform
• Design and deliver new features on the Mediator enterprise product working across a large mature Java codebase with full ownership from scoping to production
• Investigate and resolve complex production issues in Mediator tracing distributed failuresanalysinglogs profiling performance bottlenecks and leading post-incident investigations
• Participate in architecture and technical design discussions with product owners engineering leads and stakeholders
• Take features from requirement scoping through to production launch
• Write high-quality well-tested maintainable code
• Use AI-assisted development (Claude Copilot) as a daily practice including structured prompting iterative refinement and AI-assisted debugging
• Review validate and harden AI-generated code through testing peer review edge-case analysis and verification of correctness scalability and thread safety
• Collaborate with QA on automated log analysis and testing workflows

Who Were Looking For

• Passionate about solving complex backend engineering challenges
• Strong analytical debugging and problem-solving skills
• Curious about modern software engineering practices including AI-assisted development
• Effective communicator who can collaborate across engineering product and QA teams
• Self-motivated with a strong sense of ownership and accountability
• Comfortable working in fast-paced collaborative and highly technical environments

What we Offer:

• Employer funded benefits program
• Competitive total compensation package
• Work-Life Balance
• Employee assistance plan
• Employee Discount Platform
• Career Progression
• Casual Work Environment
• Social Events and Sports Teams
• Onsite Counsellor

Location:Burlington Ontario
Hours:Monday to Friday 40 hours per week
Vacancy:This is an existing position
Salary Range: $70000 to $100000 per year based on relevant experience

About Evertz Microsystems (TSX: ET)

Evertz is a global leader in broadcast technology delivering cutting-edge hardware and software solutions that deliver content to television sets on-demand services WebTV IPTV and mobile devices (like phones and tablets) worldwide. Trusted by major broadcast facilities telcos and satellite providers on every continent were known for end-to-end innovation that sets the industry standard.

Canadian-headquartered with offices around the world Evertz has 2000 employees and has been recognized as one of Canadas 50 Best Managed Companies a testament to our commitment to excellence and global impact.

Join a team where your work shapes the future of broadcast and new media industries.

Evertz is committed to equal opportunity employment. Accommodations are available throughout the recruitment process for applicants with disabilities please notify HR when scheduling your interview.

Artificial intelligence (AI) technology may be used in our recruitment process to assist with resume screening and interview note-taking. All hiring decisions are made by our team without AI involvement.

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