Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Canada)

We're Proof, a startup in the legal tech industry. We’ve built a best-in-class legal services platform that is used by thousands of law firms, and growing over 10% month-over-month. We’re looking for talented individuals to join our team as we continue to scale and grow as a company.

What you’ll do as a backend engineer:

• Play an integral role in the development of the Proof platform, working with a small but powerful team of engineers. 
• Conduct design and code reviews to ensure scalability, performance and alignment with standards and best practices in an agile programming environment.
• Write code primarily in Go.
• Help the team define and maintain development best practices.
• Drive the creation of new features and service offerings, as well as the enhancement of existing services.

What we’ll expect you to know on day one:

• 5+ years experience writing production-grade code in a modern programming language.
• Extensive experience with at least one backend programming language. (e.g. Go, Ruby, Java). 
• Ability and willingness to learn and adapt to new languages and technologies.
• Experience with or desire to work with service-oriented architecture
• Proven understanding of REST APIs and the network stack.
• Experience with GraphQL.
• Proficiency in using version control systems such as Git.
• Strong relational database knowledge; design, query optimization, transactional execution, etc.
• Knowledge to evaluate trade-offs between correctness, robustness, performance space and time.
• Experience in taking ownership of features, while working with a team on short and long-running projects.
• Extensive experience writing automated software tests (e.g. unit tests, integration tests).
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment processes.
• Familiarity with containerization technologies like Docker.
• You're a proactive communicator; you communicate concerns and blockers early and often.
• ​​You’re able to drive major projects across multiple products or systems from design to implementation.
• You can identify and troubleshoot ambiguous, open-ended problems effectively.

Great to have, but not required:

• Knowledge and experience of event-driven architecture and message brokers (e.g. RabbitMQ, Kafka).
• Experience with large-scale distributed systems and event-driven architectures
• Experience with Typescript and frontend technologies.
• Contributions to open-source projects.