Senior Backend Engineer

Plooto is a Canada-born fintech company on a mission to give small and mid-sized businesses the financial power to succeed on their own terms. They focus on making payments secure, accurate, and stress-free, enabling businesses and accountants to manage cash flow confidently and make smarter decisions.

Location: Canada

Responsibilities

• Own the design and delivery of scalable backend services using .NET and Azure
• Architect and evolve event-driven, distributed systems that process high volumes of financial transactions
• Build API-first services with strong contracts, reliability, and observability
• Lead complex technical initiatives from design through production rollout
• Make pragmatic architecture decisions that balance speed, scalability, and long-term maintainability
• Partner closely with Product and Design to translate ambiguous problems into elegant technical solutions
• Improve performance, reliability, and system resilience as we scale
• Raise the engineering bar through thoughtful code reviews, design discussions, and mentorship
• Inspire and share your engineering passion across the whole engineering org in our regular Lunch & Learn sessions
• Contribute to a culture of experimentation, ownership, and continuous improvement
• Work cross-functionally in Plooto, distilling the needs of our strategy into actionable engineering output

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional backend engineering experience (preferably in high-growth or product-led environments)
• Strong expertise in C# (or another strongly typed language) and modern backend design principles
• Proven track record of writing production-grade, testable, maintainable code
• Deep experience designing and building RESTful APIs in production
• Hands-on experience with cloud-native architectures (Kubernetes, serverless, managed services), ideally in Azure
• Experience building or operating distributed, high-throughput systems
• Experience with event-driven architectures and streaming systems (Kafka or similar)
• Experience implementing automated testing strategies (unit, integration, contract, and end-to-end testing)
• Strong understanding of data storage patterns across RDBMS and NoSQL systems
• A bias toward ownership, action, and accountability
• Ability to navigate ambiguity and drive clarity in fast-moving environments
• Previous track record working successfully in a cross-functional team environment
• Ability to effectively use AI tools towards increasing velocity, efficiency and quality of deliverables
• Computer Science degree or equivalent