Posted 34 months ago
Senior Platform Engineer (Python)
@ Acquird.io
Toronto, Ontario
Overview
Acquird.io is hiring a Senior, Staff or Lead Platform Engineer for its back-end platform team, a role that is 80% back-end platform work and 20% infrastructure and DevOps. The work is 95% remote from the Toronto area, with a monthly meetup in Toronto and a yearly company retreat. The posting offers a base salary of $130,000 to $180,000 CAD plus equity and health benefits.
Pay:
$130,000–$180,000 a year
Responsibilities:
- Design and scale back-end APIs for the platform
- Lead and optimize Celery async task management
- Build complex integrations with ad platforms such as Meta, TikTok and Snapchat
- Own applications end to end, including infrastructure concerns
Requirements summary:
- 6+ years building and scaling Python services
- Experience with PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis and messaging systems
- Designing high-availability distributed back-end systems
- Async optimization experience with Celery
- Clear communication and technical documentation skills
Tools & skills
Benefits mentioned
Source and dates
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- Employer posting date
- 2024-01-17
- 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: minimal · ground: none |
| Work setting | Home, Office |
| Position | Mostly sitting |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer high |
| Languages | English |
| Perks mentioned | Generous paid time off, Flexible hours, Stock or equity |
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Acquird.io
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Full company description
Recruiting is broken in most companies. I'd like to help fix that. We work with Series A/B/C/D sized tech companies (50 to 500+ headcount), helping them fill hard-to-hire roles. Our team has helped hire hundreds of software engineers and built almost every type of team there is
- LinkedIn followers
- 403
- People associated on LinkedIn
- 2
- Reported office locations
- Toronto, Ontario, CA
- Other recorded names
- Acquird.io
- Specialties
- recruiting
- Profile identifies a recruitment agency
- Yes
Recruiting is broken in most companies. I'd like to help fix that. We work with Series A/B/C/D sized tech companies (50 to 500+ headcount), helping them fill hard-to-hire roles. Our team has helped hire hundreds of software engineers and built almost every type of team there is
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Industry | Human Resources |
| Company size | 2-10 employees |
| Headquarters | Toronto, Ontario |
| Organization type | Privately Held |
| Year founded | 2016 |
| Specialties | recruiting |
| Open jobs on Jobsy | 10 |
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A Few Notes:
Profitable B2B SaaS company, teams are based out of North America
Role is 95% remote in Toronto (we meet up 1x a month) - we're going to focus on GTA candidates first
Must be able to legally work in Canada (visa or sponsorship won't be provided)
We're growing, and we are looking to hire a BE Python Developer for the Platform team (We have a separate Applications)
Role = 80% BE Platform + 20% Infrastructure/DevOps
Open on seniority from Senior to Staff level
About Us:
We're one of the top retail analytics platforms that help marketing teams/brands understand their retail data and run targeted media campaigns without writing code. We help our clients better understand their customers and improve their ROI on campaigns. One of our main customers is Home Depot.
Tech Stack: Python, Django, Celery, React, Typescript, Azure.
How We Work:
Collaborative team! Lots of interesting/complex work is available
This is a builder role - we're looking for folks who enjoy working in a fast paced company
We encourage exploration of new technologies - we're a modern tech company
We build for the long term and are already profitable/focused on quality
95% remote, we meetup 1X a month in Toronto and 2X a year at a company retreat
About You:
We are looking for an outstanding Senior/Staff/Lead Platform Engineer who wants to play a core role in building for our platform team. This role will be 100% back-end focused (no FE work)
Example Responsibilities:
- New API Design: Working on making the platform more scalable and data performant.
- Complex Integrations work: Working with heavy hitters like Meta, Tik Tok, Snapchat on the ad tech side.
- Lead Async task management: We're using Celery, we'd like you to take this over and optimize how we do concurrency, distributed tasks, resource intensive jobs.
Qualifications:
6+ years of experience building and scaling services in Python
Solid understanding of datastores (ex. PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis) and messaging systems (ex. Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS, Pub/Sub)
Proven experience designing and maintaining high-availability, distributed backend systems (event-driven architectures, background workers, schedulers, queues - we use Azure)
Design, implementation, and maintenance of API Services
Has led complex feature development for an enterprise level B2B/B2C Saas Platform
Async optimization experience (we use Celery)
Write test suites and deploy using our CI/CD pipeline
Experience owning an application end-to-end, and can understand/address infrastructure concerns
Clear communicator who can document systems, explain trade-offs, and influence technical direction
Target FT Salary Range:
$130,000 - $180,000* base CDN a year, with Equity & Health Benefits
*Comp range can be higher for Staff level Devs
Benefits:
Meritocracy 💰
- Leadership opportunities as we scale
- Equity/Options grants
Generous Time Off 🏝
- Flexible remote work policies
Platinum Benefits 🧑🏻
- Solid Health Insurance Plan
Learn and Grow 💻
- Coaching/mentoring for your professional development
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