Backend Developer

Tech Talent International (TTI) supplies technical talent to a variety of clients ranging from Fortune 100/500/1000 companies to startups small and mid-sized organizations in Canada/US. We are currently hiring aBackend Developer (Ruby and Golang) for our consulting client working for a major Canadian sports broadcasting organization on a multi-year project.

Role: Backend Developer (Ruby and Golang)

Rate Range: $85 -100/hr C2C (40 hrs /week)

Duration: 12 months

Location: Remote but a visit to the office will be required 1-2 times per ON Canada

Role Overview

Were looking for an experienced Backend Developer (Ruby and Golang) to join our Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) team supporting digital streaming products.

Youll design build and maintain the backend services and APIs that power high-traffic consumer applications and live sports experiences. Youll work in an environment where performance scalability availability and reliability matter particularly during major live sporting events.

Working with developers product QA infrastructure and architecture teams youll deliver new capabilities while helping evolve and improve the services behind our digital products.

• Design develop and maintain backend services microservices and APIs using Ruby and Golang.

• Build scalable reliable services supporting high-traffic digital and streaming applications.
• Develop and maintain RESTful APIs and integrations with internal and third-party systems.
• Work with relational and non-relational databases including MySQL and Cassandra as well as caching technologies such as Redis.
• Optimise applications and services for performance scalability availability and reliability.
• Troubleshoot and resolve production issues across backend applications and services.
• Collaborate with infrastructure and DevOps teams on AWS CI/CD monitoring and production operations.
• Integrate with platforms and services such as authentication subscriptions payments analytics advertising and content delivery.
• Write clean testable and maintainable code and participate in code reviews and automated testing.
• Contribute to technical design and architecture discussions and identify opportunities to improve existing systems.
• Participate in Agile development activities including sprint planning estimation stand-ups and retrospectives.
• Support major live sporting events and participate in special-event production watch and support as required.

• Strong development experience with Ruby and Golang.
• Experience designing building and maintaining RESTful APIs and microservices.
• Experience with relational databases such as MySQL and NoSQL/distributed databases such as Cassandra.
• Experience with caching technologies such as Redis.
• Strong understanding of application architecture database design performance and scalability.
• Experience with automated testing source control and modern CI/CD development practices.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills particularly in production environments.
• Ability to write clean maintainable and well-tested code.
• Strong communication skills and experience collaborating in a cross-functional Agile team.

• Previous experience working in sports broadcasting streaming or digital media industries would be a strong asset
• Experience with AWS or another major cloud platform.

• Experience with Docker Kubernetes or other containerised environments.
• Experience with monitoring and observability platforms such as Datadog New Relic or Dynatrace.
• Experience with CDNs such as Akamai or Amazon CloudFront.
• Experience with high-traffic consumer-facing applications streaming platforms or digital media.
• Experience with authentication identity entitlement or subscription services.
• Experience integrating with payment analytics advertising or other media technology platforms