Posted 2 months ago
Senior Backend Engineer
@ Eleven-X
Waterloo, Ontario
Overview
Eleven-X is hiring a full-time Senior Backend Engineer to strengthen the backend systems behind its eXactPark cloud parking solution. The role owns backend capabilities from design through production, with technical leadership and mentoring. The posting offers stock options, 4 weeks paid holidays, hybrid work (at least 1 day per month in the office), flexible hours and health benefits.
Responsibilities:
- Design, build and operate backend services, APIs and integrations
- Lead technical design and architecture decisions
- Deliver secure authentication, authorization and background processing
- Diagnose production issues and improve observability
- Collaborate with frontend, DevOps and Customer Success teams
Requirements summary:
- 6+ years of experience
- Strong PHP 8+ and Laravel experience
- Experience with REST APIs and third-party integrations
- Queues, Redis and asynchronous processing experience
- Automated testing with PHPUnit or Pest
- Proven system-design and technical leadership experience
Tools & skills
Benefits mentioned
Source and dates
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- Employer posting date
- 2026-09-15
- First seen by our source
- 2026-10-08
- Source record updated
- 2026-10-09
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Job details
| Seniority | Senior |
| Department | Software development |
| Experience | 6+ years |
| Hours per week | 40 (estimated) |
| Travel | air: none · ground: none |
| Work setting | Office, Home |
| Position | Mostly sitting |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer high |
| Languages | English |
| Perks mentioned | Generous paid time off, Flexible hours, Stock or equity, Free or discounted meals |
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Eleven-X
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eleven-x is focused on improving the parking experience with its smart parking technology solution, eXactpark™
Full company description
eleven-x™ is an industry leading IoT and Smart City technology company focused on improving the parking experience for all with its award-winning, smart parking technology solution, eXactpark™. The solution helps cities and institutions successfully address mobility challenges by enabling drivers to find available parking fast while delivering industry-leading 99.5% accuracy and 24/7 data to support improved parking policies. eXactpark’s comprehensive software platform and patented SPS-X sensor, help reduce traffic, improve safety and lower GHG emissions. The solution is being utilized by cities and institutions across North America, including Arlington County, VA; Kirkland, WA; The Town of Oakville, Ontario and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. For more information please visit eleven-x.com.
- LinkedIn followers
- 2,576
- People associated on LinkedIn
- 26
- Reported office locations
- 375 Hagey Blvd, Suite 311, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 6R5, CA
- Business categories
- Smart Building
- Parking
- Sensor
- Communications Infrastructure
- Internet of Things
- Smart Cities
- Wireless
- Mobile
- Power Grid
- Other recorded names
- Eleven-X
- eleven-x
- Specialties
- Smart Cities
- IoT
- Wireless Technology Design & Development
- Smart Parking
- Mobility
- and Sensors
- Profile identifies a recruitment agency
- No
- Reported total investment
- 1,462,008
Currency and observation date were not supplied; this is not a current valuation or a funding round.
eleven-x™ is an industry leading IoT and Smart City technology company focused on improving the parking experience for all with its award-winning, smart parking technology solution, eXactpark™. The solution helps cities and institutions successfully address mobility challenges by enabling drivers to find available parking fast while delivering industry-leading 99.5% accuracy and 24/7 data to support improved…
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Industry | Wireless Services |
| Company size | 11-50 employees |
| Headquarters | Waterloo, Ontario |
| Organization type | Privately Held |
| Year founded | 2014 |
| Specialties | Smart CitiesIoTWireless Technology Design & DevelopmentSmart ParkingMobilityand Sensors |
| Open jobs on Jobsy | 3 |
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eleven-x is transforming the parking experience through its industry-leading parking technology: a sensor-based space-occupancy monitoring solution and comprehensive software platform that enables frictionless parking. Our solution includes our own hardware, firmware, network solutions, web applications, and mobile applications. Customers rely on our expertise to deliver comprehensive, easy-to-use, scalable solutions that reduce costs, drive additional revenue, and deliver better services.
Come grow with us!
We have an active opening for a full-time Senior Backend Engineer to strengthen the systems behind our eXactPark cloud solution. You will own backend capabilities from technical design through production operation, work across product and engineering teams, and improve the reliability and scalability of software that connects hardware, networks, and customer-facing applications.
You'll work with people who share the same values of being passionate, innovative, accountable, collaborative, and respectful. We take care of our teammates by offering meaningful and challenging work, growth opportunities, stock options, team events and lunches, competitive wages, 4 weeks paid holidays per year, hybrid work (at least 1 day per month), flexible hours, and health benefits.
Job Responsibilities include:
- Design, build, and operate maintainable backend services, APIs, integrations, and data workflows.
- Lead technical design and architecture decisions for backend capabilities, balancing product needs, reliability, performance, and long-term maintainability.
- Deliver secure application behavior across authentication, authorization, background processing, scheduling, caching, and production operations.
- Diagnose production issues, improve observability and resilience, and support effective incident investigation and resolution.
- Collaborate with frontend engineers, DevOps, Customer Success, and other stakeholders to clarify requirements, manage technical risk, and deliver reliable outcomes.
- Mentor engineers through design reviews, implementation guidance, and constructive technical feedback.
- Use AI-assisted engineering tools responsibly to accelerate development, debugging, testing, and documentation while maintaining sound engineering judgment.
To be Successful in this role, you will have:
- Minimum of 6 years' experience
- Strong PHP 8+ experience (6+ years), with Laravel as the primary framework; Symfony or other modern backend-framework experience is also welcome.
- Strong experience with Eloquent ORM, migrations, relational data modelling, and MySQL or PostgreSQL.
- Experience designing and implementing REST APIs, OpenAPI specifications, and third-party integrations.
- Experience with authentication and authorization, including policies, roles, permissions, and token-based access.
- Experience with queues, jobs, events, scheduling, Redis, Horizon or comparable asynchronous-processing tooling.
- Experience with caching, backend performance tuning, production debugging, and operational support.
- Strong automated-testing practice using PHPUnit, Pest, or similar feature and unit testing frameworks.
- Proven system-design and architecture experience, including production decision-making and technical leadership.
- Practical experience using AI-assisted engineering tools as part of a responsible development workflow.
- Git and CI/CD experience.
You may also have:
- Geospatial experience, including PostGIS or QGIS.
- Experience with IoT products or systems where hardware, software, and networking intersect.
- Python, JavaScript, or TypeScript experience.
- Docker, Kubernetes (K8s), or cloud-native operational experience.
- Experience with event-driven systems, distributed integrations, or high-volume data processing.
Common soft-skill requirements:
- Clear written and verbal communication.
- Ownership and sound judgment in driving technical and quality outcomes.
- Ability to make and explain pragmatic architecture and production decisions.
- Proactive collaboration across teams.
- A mentoring mindset and constructive approach to technical leadership.
We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse organization and encourage all qualified individuals to apply. Accommodations are available upon request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process. While we appreciate the interest of all candidates, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.
Artificial intelligence may be used during our recruitment and candidate screening process.
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