Senior Software Developer (Back-End)

About Us

At Cambio Earth we are changing the way infrastructure operators tackle climate resiliency. As an enterprise software and AI company with deep earth science expertise built over 20 years as part of BGC Engineering we work with customers to embed earth science intelligence into their critical infrastructure operations; helping to safeguard communities essential services and the environment.

Floods landslides seismic and extreme weather events are becoming more frequent threatening the integrity of critical infrastructure. Thats where we come in and where you come in. Picture this: roads railways mines pipelines dams levees all protected by real-time situational awareness and insights that turn risks into manageable challenges.

The Cambio Earth team is passionate about making a difference. We love engaging directly with customers. We love building cutting-edge solutions that provide engineers and earth scientists new insights; ensuring the right risk-informed decisions are made at the right time.

The Role

As a Senior Software Developer youll help shape the foundation of our software systems as we transition from a distributed architecture to a streamlined well-structured monolith with a disciplined relational schema. This work is focused on consolidation and claritysimplifying complexity so our team can move faster and with confidence.

Youll design and implement the target architecture establish schema discipline across the codebase and lead our migration from SQL Server to PostgreSQL. Along the way youll collaborate with engineers and data specialists to create a backend thats predictable well-modeled observable and easy to reason aboutboring in the best way.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve a modular monolith architecture with clear boundaries and explicit dependencies.
  
• Consolidate parts of the existing distributed system into the new architecture without disrupting functionality and refactor services models and APIs to reduce duplication and complexity.
  
• Bring rigor to database design including schemas naming conventions constraints indexing and migrations and own the overall data model for core product domains.
  
• Establish patterns for safe schema evolution and collaborate with the Data Architect to keep backend and analytics schemas aligned.
  
• Lead the migration from SQL Server to PostgreSQL including schema redesign query refactoring and performance tuning and implement migration strategies with validation and rollback paths.
  
• Develop backend services and APIs that power web and mobile applications integrate internal and external data sources and maintain automated tests around critical business flows.
  
• Contribute to observability through logging metrics and diagnostics that make production behavior transparent.
  
• Work closely with other developers QA and product teams to deliver incremental safe changes participate in code reviews and document architecture and migration plans for clarity and maintainability.
  

Required Education Experience & Competencies

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science Information Systems Software Engineering or a related discipline or equivalent experience.
• 7 years of professional experience building and maintaining backend systems in production.
• Strong experience with relational databases: schema design normalization indexing query optimization and transaction semantics.
• Hands-on SQL expertise in at least one of SQL Server or PostgreSQL; ideally youve worked with both or have done a migration between major RDBMSs.
• Solid experience with at least one backend language/framework (e.g. TypeScript/ C#/.NET Python or similar) and modern engineering practices (code review CI/CD automated testing).
• Experience working in a codebase that has real history (legacy behaviors odd edges) and incrementally improving it instead of starting from scratch.
• Comfortable reasoning about and simplifying distributed systems: understanding where you can safely centralize logic and where you actually need distribution.
• Good communication skills: you can explain technical trade-offs to peers document decisions and collaborate across disciplines.
  

Nice to Have

• Direct experience consolidating microservices / distributed monoliths into monoliths or modular monoliths.
• Experience with PostgreSQL-specific features (e.g. JSONB PostGIS window functions) and how to use them judiciously.
• Familiarity with geospatial or time-series data and related patterns (though domain expertise can also be learned on the job).
• Experience in safety-critical or high-reliability domains (infrastructure utilities transportation environmental etc.).
  
  

Company Benefits

Cambio Earth offers our employees the following:

• Our One Team culture supporting health wellness safety and diversity
• Mentoring opportunities
• Hybrid workplace with our downtown office
• Social and wellness activities
• Casual and professional work environment

Compensation

The estimated base salary range for this position is $125000 - $175000 CAD per annum however base pay will be commensurate with job-related knowledge skills and experience. BGCs compensation package also includes a training allowance and a comprehensive medical and dental plan.

Equity Diversity and Inclusion

Cambio Earth strives to create a workplace where equity diversity and inclusion are embedded throughout our workplace culture and practices. Join us in our commitment to honour individuality ensure fairness and create a welcoming environment for everyone. As an equal opportunity employer we encourage applications from all candidates including those experiencing inequity such as racialized individuals Indigenous People women people of diverse sexual orientations identities and expressions veterans individuals with disabilities people of all faiths nationalities marital status ages and family status. For assistance or accommodation with your application please contact us at

Disclosures

(1) At Cambio Earth we use Artificial Intelligence to streamline parts of the recruitment process however all decisions about candidate selection and advancement continue to be made by our hiring team.

(2) This is a newly created position reflecting our continued growth and investment in expanding our capabilities.

(3) This posting will remain open until the position has been filled.

(4) Privacy Notice: By submitting an application you are consenting to Cambio Earth Systems Inc.using and storing provided information about you for monitoring purposes relating to your application or future employment.

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