Lead Backend Engineer, Behavioural Team

Movable Ink

. Define the technical vision, system boundaries, and architecture for services transforming customer activity signals into actionable trigger events .

Posted 11/9/2026full-timeRemote • CanadaSenior💰 CA$147,300 - CA$192,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in designing and operating high-scale backend systems, with a strong focus on event-driven architectures and real-time decisioning. Proven ability to lead technical initiatives, mentor teams, and translate product goals into actionable technical plans.

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Backend System DesignEvent-Driven ArchitectureTechnical LeadershipBehavioral AnalyticsGoogle Cloud Platform

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Hard Skills

Software EngineeringSystem ArchitectureDistributed SystemsAsynchronous ProcessingBehavioral DecisioningEvent Stream ProcessingData ConsistencyScalable Backend ServicesMonitoring and AlertingIncident Response

Soft Skills

Clear CommunicationCollaborative ApproachMentoring

Tools & Technologies

Pub/Sub SystemsWorkflow SystemsRule EnginesDecisioning Engines

Industry Keywords

High-Volume Event DataProduction OperationsTechnical VisionIncremental Delivery

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudGoogle Cloud Platform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Define the technical vision, system boundaries, and architecture for services transforming customer activity signals into actionable trigger events
Contribute directly through system design, implementation, code review, debugging, and production support
Design and implement behavioral decisioning services that detect patterns, correlate signals across time windows, and determine trigger eligibility
Architect systems maintaining short-lived behavioral state and lookback windows
Build reusable declarative or rule-based frameworks for defining and evaluating behavioral triggers
Provide technical guidance, unblock engineers, review designs and code, and mentor team members
Partner with Engineering Management and Product to create technical plans, milestones, and incremental delivery paths
Collaborate with engineering teams to integrate behavioral signals into campaign orchestration and message delivery systems
Ensure reliable operation of high-volume Behavioral services using observability, metrics, traces, logs, alerts, and postmortems
Represent the Behavioural team in architecture discussions and influence broader technical direction
Report to the Senior Director of Engineering

Requirements

What you’ll need

7+ years of professional software engineering experience
Strong track record of building and operating backend or platform systems in production
Significant experience designing and operating distributed, event-driven, or high-scale backend systems
Strong architectural judgment around stateful services, real-time or near-real-time decisioning, asynchronous processing, system reliability, and production operations
Hands-on technical leadership experience, including unblocking, reviewing, mentoring, and leading complex technical initiatives end-to-end
Experience translating ambiguous product goals into pragmatic technical designs and incremental execution plans
Familiarity with high-volume event data systems, event stream processing, behavioral analytics, pub/sub systems, workflow systems, rule engines, or decisioning engines
Strong understanding of retries, duplicate events, ordering, late-arriving data, idempotency, backfills, partial failures, tenancy, and data consistency tradeoffs
Experience building scalable backend services in cloud environments, preferably Google Cloud Platform
Experience with monitoring, alerting, logging, tracing, incident response, and on-call responsibilities
Clear communication skills and ability to translate technical tradeoffs into practical decisions with Product, Design, engineering partners, and business stakeholders
Collaborative, product-minded approach to platform engineering

Benefits

Comp & perks

Additional bonus depending on the position ultimately offered
Medical benefits
Financial benefits
Other benefits