Backend Engineer - Jobs in Toronto

Job Description

About PaaysPaays is a dynamic fintech turned Enterprise software startup currently serving the Canadian auto and mortgage financing sectors, providing an innovative platform of Fraud detection, IDV, AML, and Income verification solutions for lenders. We are expanding our engineering team to enhance our product capabilities and help build new features to serve our clients better.Job DescriptionWe are looking for a Backend Engineer who is eager to contribute to designing, building, and expanding our backend systems, with a strong emphasis on security and compliance. The ideal candidate is someone passionate about crafting powerful, efficient and scalable services that will drive better digital financial solutions for millions of Canadians.Your role will involve working closely with our product and engineering teams to build and enhance our core services, monitoring and analytics systems, and integration of external services that elevates our platform to an even higher level.Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain applications using MongoDB, Express.js, ReACT, and Node.js.
• Design and implement scalable pub/sub APIs.
• Utilize AWS services (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda) for application deployment and scaling
• Implement AWS solutions for high availability and disaster recovery.
• Ensure development processes align with SOC2 Type 2 requirements.
• Implement and maintain security controls and documentation for SOC 2 compliance.
• Conduct regular code reviews and implement code quality checks.

RequirementsQualifications

• 5+ years of backend development experience with the MERN stack.
• Experience in SOC2 Type 2 compliant environments, particularly in fintech.
• Familiarity of topics, queues, message brokers, and event streams.
• Familiarity with building and maintaining public APIs.
• Strong understanding of operational considerations in product development, such as logging, monitoring and analytics.
• Experience with integrating external vendors and services.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to work in a fast-paced startup environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in financial data aggregation or similar domains.
• Experience with messaging and event streaming platforms like Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, AWS Kinesis, Google Pub/Sub, or similar technologies.
• Experience building and maintaining reliable webhook systems.

Other Requirements

• Legal ability to work and reside in Canada (Canadian citizen or permanent resident status)
• Residence in Toronto or Toronto-vicinity with the ability to work a min. of 1 day/week at the Paays (downtown) Toronto office
• Employer offers are subject to criminal and other background checks, as well as personal and/or employer references

BenefitsCompensation

• Competitive salary, plus participation in the Paays Employee Incentive (Options) pool
• Health/Dental plan, after initial 6 months of employment

Other

• The Paays office is located near the corner of Yonge and Adelaide, in downtown Toronto.Both Queen and King TTC subway stops are within 2 minute walks of the office.Along with a private office, we enjoy the many amenities of a co-working space, including lounge access, private call phone booths, free coffee, tea and snacks, and regular happy hours.
• Our team is currently spread across many different geographies.This position, along with other new positions, will start a process of building a core team of skilled professionals based in the Toronto office.