Staff Backend Engineer
•Procurify· 8h
EngineeringFull-time$146k-176kAmericas
8h ago
Procurify·about 10 hours ago
Procurify is looking for a motivated, collaborative, and creative person who is passionate about technology.
Procurify is the AI-enhanced procurement and AP automation platform for mid-market organizations. We make it easy for organizations to take control of spend and save money.
We're looking for a pragmatic and thoughtful engineering leader to help scale our platform, development practices, and team.
You’re a person with a knack for solving some of the most pressing technology challenges in SaaS application development while leveling up the team of engineers around you, and you’re eager to help our customers achieve the best version of themselves.
Everyone at Procurify is a team player. A big part of this role involves a desire for personal growth, and a customer-centric mindset. We’re seeking entrepreneurial people who are willing to challenge the status quo and contribute to larger strategic objectives.
Build & Ship End-to-End Features: Design, develop, and maintain full stack features—from RESTful APIs and backend services to responsive, user-friendly frontend components—using Python/Django and TypeScript/React.
Develop Scalable Backend Services: Build and evolve backend systems that handle business logic, data storage, and integrations, ensuring performance, reliability, and scalability.
Create High-Quality Frontend Experiences: Implement reusable, accessible, and performant UI components in React. Collaborate with product and design to deliver intuitive user experiences.
Design & Optimize Database Schemas: Contribute to the design of our database models and write efficient, secure queries. You will work to ensure the performance and integrity of our data layer.
Champion Code Quality: Ensure you and other team members are contributing clean, efficient, testable, and reusable code that is easy to maintain and extend and aligns with our technical strategy and coding standards.
Strengthen System Architecture: Provide leadership in the technical output of your team and ensure technical designs follow appropriate design patterns, are architecturally sound, and adhere to secure coding practices.
Ensure System Reliability: Enable the observability and monitoring of relevant system behavior in the areas of the application owned by your team and use the data collected to propose improvements to application performance and stability.
Our Tech Stack:
Application: Python/Django, Typescript/React
Cloud: AWS
Infrastructure & Containers: AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform
Databases: MySQL
CI/CD: CircleCI
Commitment: Demonstrates accountability and follow-through, delivering reliably and owning outcomes in a way that others can depend on.
Ambition: Takes initiative with curiosity and a growth mindset, pursuing bold ideas that elevate impact and performance.
Resilience: Shows adaptability, composure, and perseverance through challenges, staying focused and effective in a fast-changing environment.
Excellence: Brings rigor, collaboration, and a strong quality focus to deliver high-performing solutions and raise the bar for outcomes.
Simplicity: Applies focus, clarity, and streamlining to cut through complexity and enable efficient, impactful execution.
Full Stack Experience: 5+ years of professional experience in hands-on work across both frontend and backend systems, preferably in a SaaS environment.
AI & ML: Deep understanding of LLMs, prompt engineering, RAG architectures, vector databases (Databricks/pgVector), and agentic AI frameworks (LangChain, Google ADK, or similar)
Python Proficiency: Strong experience building and maintaining applications using Python and a major web framework (we use Django).
React: Experience building modern web applications with React and TypeScript, including component-based architecture and state management.
Agile & Collaborative: Experience working with agile practices (Scrum/Kanban) and CI/CD principles. You thrive in a team environment.
Empathetic & Accountable: You act with compassion, believe that your team’s success is your success, and communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical colleagues.
Maintains a professional and current LinkedIn profile, ensuring it is updated upon joining Procurify to reflect their new role and maintain a consistent company presence.
A modern tech stack with opportunities to influence future architecture.
A culture committed to learning, experimentation, and engineering excellence.
Clear technical vision and empowered teams who own their outcomes.
Genuine collaboration, psychological safety, and a people-first culture.
Meaningful problems to solve with real customer and business impact.
Procurify is a remote-first company with a big heart and a strong ambition to modernize the way organizations manage business spend. We’re looking for talented and team-driven individuals to join us on our journey to build a place where the best people want to work – a place where every team member is empowered to apply their best thinking, push boundaries thoughtfully, and drive high performance together.
We’ve created an environment where personal and professional growth is a real priority. Some of the great perks we offer include:
Flexible working: We’re a remote-first organization with flexible working hours. Work anywhere from within Canada!
Responsible time off: We trust our team to take the time they need to rest and recharge while staying accountable to their commitments.
Extended health benefits: We prioritize our team’s health and well-being. We offer a competitive health, vision, and dental package along with an Employee Assistance Program (EAP), and a health and wellness spending account.
Community initiatives: We have a strong commitment to the community. Join one of our regular community days, donate to our Donate Your Day program, and get involved with one of our lunch and learns.
Stock options: Everyone has a chance to own a part of Procurify with our competitive stock program.
DEI initiatives: We regularly run a diversity, equity, and inclusion roundtable where we host guest speakers and tackle the topics that matter.
Base Salary Range: $122,000- $152,000 CAD (This range is dependent on experience and not inclusive of any bonus, commission, benefits or equity that might exist in your total compensation package.)
We’ve welcomed team members who were boat captains, funeral directors, swing dancers, competitive gamers, plumbers, and novelists. Everyone has a story and we’re here to embrace them!
Procurify is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate against any team members or applicants for employment because of race, color, disability, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, or gender identity and/or expression.
If you feel like you don’t meet all of the requirements for this role, we encourage you to apply anyway.
We know that feelings of imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting incredible candidates, and we certainly don’t want those feelings to get in the way of meeting you! We really want to get to know you and why you're great for the role. Please avoid including your picture and age on your resume.
Apply online today and let’s start a conversation.
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