3 months ago
Toronto, CanadaSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and scale backend services for document processing and workflow automation.
- Develop asynchronous pipelines and distributed systems for high-volume data processing.
- Build and maintain AWS infrastructure and queueing systems such as SQS.
- Improve system availability, fault tolerance, observability, performance, scalability, and cost efficiency.
- Build structured and unstructured data processing systems, APIs, and internal services.
- Integrate external OCR and AI model services where appropriate.
- Collaborate with product, frontend, and customer-facing teams to deliver scalable product features.
- Own backend architecture decisions, mentor engineers, and improve engineering practices, testing, and deployment processes.
Requirements
- 4–7+ years of experience building and scaling backend systems.
- Strong proficiency with backend frameworks such as Node.js, Django, or similar.
- Experience designing distributed systems and asynchronous processing pipelines.
- Solid experience with AWS and cloud infrastructure.
- Strong understanding of system performance, reliability, and observability.
- Experience building production-grade APIs and services.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, high-growth startup and collaborate across teams.
- Bonus: experience with data processing or ETL pipelines, document processing, OCR, AI/ML integrations, queueing systems, event-driven architectures, high-throughput systems, or financial services and B2B SaaS.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and equity.
- Health, dental, and vision coverage.
- Unlimited paid time off.
- Downtown Toronto office location.
- Office snacks and lunches.
- Supportive, low-ego team focused on ownership and growth.
- Company offsite.
About Feathery
Feathery builds an agentic data intake platform for financial institutions, automating onboarding, underwriting, risk assessment, and account opening while syncing client data across CRMs, custodians, policy systems, and internal apps. It sells a SaaS platform to insurance and wealth management firms to replace manual processes with workflow automation and standardized integrations. Founded in 2021 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company is privately held.