Posted 23 days ago
Backend Engineer, API
@ hireVouch
Remote in Canada
Overview
hireVouch is hiring a Backend Engineer for its core API team to scale a production platform serving millions of users. The role covers building and optimizing public and internal APIs, async workflows and high-traffic Postgres performance.
Responsibilities:
- Own the full API lifecycle for public and internal APIs
- Design and implement async workflows and processing pipelines
- Optimize queries for a high-traffic Postgres database
- Build rate limiting, fraud detection and credit management systems
- Improve public API developer experience and tooling
Requirements summary:
- 3+ years building production APIs
- Strong TypeScript experience
- Experience owning systems end to end
- Understanding of REST principles and async workflows
- Experience with relational databases, Postgres preferred
- Experience architecting production systems on AWS, GCP or Azure
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- Employer posting date
- 2026-10-14
- First seen by our source
- 2026-10-14
- Source record updated
- 2026-11-06
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Job details
| Seniority | Mid level |
| Department | Software development |
| Experience | 3+ years |
| Travel | air: none · ground: none |
| Work setting | Office, Home |
| Position | Mostly sitting |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer high |
| Languages | English |
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Full company description
Our Edge Hiring and retaining skilled talent is paramount for your company’s success. Finding the right people – who have the right skills and right personality fit – can be incredibly challenging in today’s job market. Here at hireVouch we can help you acquire the highest calibre candidates through the relationships we have formed over more than a decade. Our approach is an ethical one. Rather than use the often-employed aggressive methods typical of the recruitment industry, our focus is placed largely on referral-based networking. Getting it right really matters to us. Let us leverage our network of talent that has already been vouched for by leading professionals in the industry to help your business grow. Services Offered Contingency and Retained Search Here at hireVouch we focus on sourcing best-in-class candidates for rewarding positions in Canada and the US. We have extensive expertise in Contingency, Retained and Temporary placement, primarily within the IT sector. On-Site Search Assistance We have a trusted network of HR and search professionals who can provide on-site search services to help fulfill immediate needs as well as help train internal staff in finding the highest quality talent Company Marketing Strategy We know how competitive the job market can truly be and how important it is to have a strategy to attract talent. At hireVouch we have extensive expertise in helping companies better market themselves. We can provide the tools and knowledge that will assist you in making your business a highly attractive place to work. Developing a company marketing strategy is key to hiring the talent you need to grow.
- LinkedIn followers
- 68,412
- People associated on LinkedIn
- 7
- Reported office locations
- 215 Spadina Avenue, 4th Floor, Toronto, Ontario M5T 2C7, CA
- Other recorded names
- hireVouch
- Profile identifies a recruitment agency
- Yes
Our Edge Hiring and retaining skilled talent is paramount for your company’s success. Finding the right people – who have the right skills and right personality fit – can be incredibly challenging in today’s job market. Here at hireVouch we can help you acquire the highest calibre candidates through the relationships we have formed over more than a decade. Our approach is an ethical one. Rather than use the…
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Industry | Staffing and Recruiting |
| Company size | 2-10 employees |
| Headquarters | Toronto, Ontario |
| Organization type | Privately Held |
| Year founded | 2016 |
| Open jobs on Jobsy | 175 |
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About the role
We're looking for an API engineer to join our core API team and help scale our platform serving millions of users and handling thousands of requests per second. You'll work on the critical infrastructure that powers both our public API (used by external developers) and internal tools, managing user data, task orchestration, billing, permissions, and asset management.
This is a high-impact role on a mature, production system. You'll build enterprise features, optimize database performance, design async workflows, and ensure reliability at scale. If you're passionate about API development, love TypeScript, and want to own systems end-to-end, this is the role for you.
A peek at our technical stack
Our API endpoints for real-time collaboration and media asset management is written in TypeScript, and runs in ECS containers on AWS Fargate. We leverage multiple AWS-native components, such as S3, CloudFront, Lambda, Kinesis, and SQS, as building blocks of our infrastructure.
Our inference backend is written in Python (PyTorch, TorchScript), and is deployed across multiple clusters / cloud providers. We use Kubernetes for container orchestration, and k8s-native components such as Flyte, Kueue, and Kyverno efficient job orchestration. We invest in prometheus and grafana for monitoring, and Terraform to manage our infrastructure.
What you’ll do
Own the full API lifecycle from design and implementation to monitoring, optimization, and documentation for both public and internal APIs
Design and implement async workflows for task orchestration, content moderation, prompt enhancement, and post-processing pipelines
Optimize database queries and improve performance for a high-traffic Postgres database
Build rate limiting, fraud detection, and credit management systems
Implement comprehensive API security, rate limiting, authentication, and monitoring systems to ensure reliability at scale
Improve the public API developer experience with better documentation, SDKs, and tooling
Improve the performance, reliability, and code quality of our codebases
What you’ll need
3+ years of industry experience building production APIs
Strong TypeScript experience, so you can jump in and be productive immediately
Experience owning systems end-to-end: infrastructure, monitoring, logging, metrics, incident response
Understanding of API design patterns, REST principles, and async workflows
Experience with relational databases (Postgres preferred) and query optimization
Experience architecting production-ready systems at scale using cloud primitives from AWS, GCP, or Azure
Ability to rapidly prototype solutions and iterate on them with tight product deadlines
Humility and open mindedness; we love to learn from one another
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