Senior Back End Developer

1 month, 3 weeks ago
Full-time
Senior
Software Development
CoLab

CoLab

CoLab is a collaborative engineering platform that streamlines design reviews, prevents errors, and speeds up product development for hardware engineering teams.

Construction & Engineering
51-250
Founded 2017
$20M raised

Description

  • Design and build the backend services that power Operator.
  • Develop scalable retrieval systems that connect engineering knowledge across design reviews, notebooks, search, and other product surfaces.
  • Build APIs and services that enable AI-powered experiences throughout the platform.
  • Improve search quality, data pipelines, and knowledge retrieval performance.
  • Expand Operator’s capabilities to support intelligent reporting, dashboards, and engineering insights.
  • Design systems that organize company knowledge across business units, engineering domains, and manufacturing processes.
  • Collaborate closely with AI, Product, Design, and Engineering teams to deliver customer-facing capabilities.
  • Improve reliability, observability, and performance across backend infrastructure.
  • Mentor teammates through architecture discussions, code reviews, and technical leadership.

Requirements

  • 7+ years building production backend software.
  • Strong experience with Python and modern backend development.
  • Experience building APIs, distributed systems, and cloud-native applications.
  • Strong understanding of databases, system architecture, and scalable backend design.
  • Experience working with structured and unstructured data.
  • Comfortable making architectural decisions in evolving product environments.
  • Excellent communication skills with both technical and non-technical teammates.
  • Experience building AI-powered applications or LLM workflows (bonus).
  • Experience with retrieval systems, semantic search, or RAG architectures (bonus).
  • Experience with vector databases or search infrastructure; TurboPuffer experience is a plus.
  • Experience with embeddings, ranking, or information retrieval (bonus).
  • Experience with event-driven architectures (bonus).
  • Experience building enterprise SaaS platforms (bonus).

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation and stock options.
  • Extended health benefits.
  • Unlimited paid vacation.
  • RRSP matching.
  • Flexible hybrid and remote options.
  • Remote work available from anywhere in Canada.

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