Full-Time

Principal Lead / Principal Backend Engineer

Techies4tech.ai · Toronto
Compensation
C$206000-C$270000 CAD/year
Experience
8-12 yrs

Job location

Street address
100 King Street West
City
Toronto
Region / state
ON
Postal code
M5X 1C0
Country
CA

Role Overview

Techies4tech.ai is hiring a Principal Backend Engineer to lead backend architecture decisions at a principal level and help shape the technical direction of core systems. This role focuses on enterprise backend architecture, technology strategy and roadmap development, and cross-service data consistency. The position is suited to someone who can operate at a high level of technical ownership while guiding durable backend decisions across services.

Key Requirements

• Enterprise backend architecture — target L6 (Prof), must-have • technology strategy & roadmap — target L6 (Prof), must-have • cross-service data consistency, — target L6 (Prof), must-have • capacity planning — target L6 (Prof), nice-to-have • technical leadership — target L6 (Prof), nice-to-have • Working AI leverage — observed and scored, never assumed • 8–12 years of relevant experience

Responsibilities

Lead the design and evolution of enterprise backend architecture. Define and guide technology strategy and roadmap decisions for backend systems. Drive approaches to cross-service data consistency across distributed services. Contribute principal-level technical direction that supports scalable backend decision-making, with capacity planning and technical leadership as valuable additions where applicable.

About Techies4tech.ai

This position is for US based clients.

Why join

This role offers the opportunity to shape backend architecture and technical roadmap decisions at a principal level. It is a strong fit for someone who wants to have direct impact on how backend systems are designed and how consistency is managed across services. The scope also provides room to bring preferred strengths in capacity planning and technical leadership to broader engineering direction.

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