Staff Software Engineer – Backend (Python / Typescript / Big Data / AWS / Kubernetes)

About Varicent

At Varicent, we’re not just transforming the Sales Performance Management (SPM) market—we’re redefining how organizations achieve revenue success. Our cutting-edge SaaS solutions empower revenue leaders globally to design smarter go-to-market strategies, maximize seller performance, and unlock untapped potential.

Why You’ll Thrive at Varicent

• Innovate with Purpose: Build impactful solutions for customers worldwide.
• Join Excellence: Work in a diverse, collaborative, and innovative team.
• Shape the Future: Lead in redefining revenue optimization.
• Grow Together: Unlock your potential in a supportive environment.

Role Overview

We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer with deep experience designing and scaling large-scale, data-intensive systems. This role requires hands-on expertise working with massive datasets, distributed data pipelines, and high-throughput backend architectures. You will play a key role in driving our backend services, data platforms, and cloud-native systems forward.

What You’ll Do

• Design, build, and scale new features for REST APIs and large-scale data processing pipelines that handle high-volume datasets across distributed systems.
• Architect and optimize backend services for high throughput and low-latency performance.
• Develop data-intensive and event-driven applications using Python, Typescript, Spark, and AWS-native services.
• Work with Spark, EMR, Glue, Kafka, or similar frameworks to process and transform very large datasets.
• Improve system performance, reliability, and scalability across microservices and cloud infrastructure.
• Partner with senior engineers, architects, DevOps, and QA throughout the full development lifecycle.
• Mentor developers, guide code reviews, and raise engineering quality standards.
• Automate deployments and CI/CD using Terraform, Serverless Framework, and Kubernetes-based workflows.

What You Bring

Technical Expertise

• 7+ years of backend or full-stack engineering experience with a strong backend focus.
• 7+ years of hands-on Python experience (APIs, automation, large-scale data pipelines).
• 3+ years working with Typescript / Node.js.
• Advanced experience with AWS (EC2, EKS, Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, RDS, Step Functions, etc.).
• Strong practical experience deploying and optimizing production workloads on Kubernetes.
• Proven experience working with large datasets, distributed computing, and batch or stream processing using Spark, Dask, EMR, Glue, Kafka, etc.
• Solid understanding of system design, distributed systems, scalability patterns, and cloud architecture.

Collaboration & Communication

• Ability to collaborate, document solutions clearly, and participate in technical discussions with stakeholders.

Salary

The expected base salary range for this role is $104,300 - $130,000 CAD and individuals may be eligible to participate in our variable compensation program. Final compensation may vary based on experience, skills, designations, and market conditions.