Lead Backend Engineer Behavioural Systems

Shape behavioural intelligence architecture with distributed systems and real-time decisioning expertise in this remote-first Canadian leadership role. Build services that turn customer activity into timely marketing triggers.As Lead Backend Engineer for the Behavioural Team, you will design and operate scalable backend platforms processing high volumes of event data. You will combine hands-on development with mentoring, architectural guidance, and collaboration across product, engineering, and platform teams. The work supports triggers for abandoned carts, price changes, loyalty milestones, and replenishment needs.Key Responsibilities:
Define architecture for behavioural backend services and technical system boundariesDesign event-driven decisioning services and stateful customer contextImplement, review, debug, and support production engineering initiativesDevelop reusable rule-based behavioural trigger frameworksMentor engineers and guide cross-team technical decisionsRequirements:
At least seven years of professional software engineering experienceExperience building distributed, event-driven, or high-scale backend architecturesExpertise in stateful services, asynchronous processing, and reliability engineeringExperience leading initiatives, mentoring engineers, and reviewing implementationsExperience with cloud backend services, preferably Google Cloud PlatformApply backend architecture, event processing, and technical leadership to reliable behavioural services powering meaningful customer marketing actions.
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