Senior Backend Engineer

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Location

This role is fully remote in Canada

About the job you are considering

We're looking for a senior backend engineer to help design, migrate, and operate the power ingestion, processing, storage, and lifecycle management of user- and listing-generated media (images, video, and documents) across our platform. This role sits at the intersection of platform migration, data compliance, and service reliability — you'll own multi-quarter modernization efforts while ensuring the pipeline meets strict privacy and trust requirements.

Your role

- Drive platform migrations end-to-end — design and execute the migration of legacy media-processing services onto a modern replacement platform, including data-model design, dual-write/backfill strategies, phased cutovers, and legacy cleanup.

- Build event-driven processing pipelines — design Kafka/event-schema-based consumers and producers to power asynchronous media-processing workflows (state machines, checkpoints, retries, idempotency guarantees).

- Own trust & privacy compliance in the data path — implement GDPR-compliant hard-deletion workflows across storage and CDN layers, integrate personal-data-detection and content-integrity checks into upload/creation flows, and build safe-content transformation pipelines for user-uploaded files.

- Integrate third-party media infrastructure — build and maintain integrations with external transcoding/processing vendors, including webhook handling, rate limiting, and failure handling.

- Ensure operational excellence — write on-call runbooks and alerting for critical endpoints, manage service-mesh permissions between internal services, tune consumer/throughput settings, and resolve reliability issues (memory, latency, backpressure).

- Evolve core data models and APIs — design and extend database schemas and GraphQL/API layers supporting media entities, with a focus on idempotency, consistency, and backward compatibility during migrations.

- Partner cross-functionally — work with trust & safety, privacy, and adjacent platform teams to translate compliance and product requirements into pipeline changes

Must have skills

- 5+ years of backend software engineering experience, ideally on high-scale distributed systems.

- Strong experience with event-driven architectures (Kafka or equivalent), service meshes, and microservice-to-microservice integration.

- Experience owning large-scale service migrations — designing safe cutover strategies, backfills, and rollback plans.

- Solid grounding in relational/NoSQL data modeling and schema evolution.

- Experience with caching layers (Redis or similar), CDC/change-data-capture pipelines, and cache invalidation strategies.

- Comfort with operational ownership: writing alerts, runbooks, and debugging production incidents.

- Experience with media/video processing pipelines, third-party transcoding vendors, or content-safety systems.

The base compensation range for this role in the posted location is: CAD 72,056 to CAD 138,940

Capgemini provides compensation range information in accordance with applicable national, state, provincial, and local pay transparency laws. The base compensation range listed for this position reflects the minimum and maximum target compensation Capgemini, in good faith, believes it may pay for the role at the time of this posting. This range may be subject to change as permitted by law.

The actual compensation offered to any candidate may fall outside of the posted range and will be determined based on multiple factors legally permitted in the applicable jurisdiction.

These may include, but are not limited to: Geographic location, Education and qualifications, Certifications and licenses, Relevant experience and skills, Seniority and performance, Market and business consideration, Internal pay equity.

It is not typical for candidates to be hired at or near the top of the posted compensation range.

In addition to base salary, this role may be eligible for additional compensation such as variable incentives, bonuses, or commissions, depending on the position and applicable laws.

Capgemini offers a comprehensive, non-negotiable benefits package to all regular, full-time employees. In the U.S. and Canada, available benefits are determined by local policy and eligibility and may include:

- Paid time off based on employee grade (A-F), defined by policy: Vacation: 12-25 days, depending on grade, Company paid holidays, Personal Days, Sick Leave

- Medical, dental, and vision coverage (or provincial healthcare coordination in Canada)

- Retirement savings plans (e.g., 401(k) in the U.S., RRSP in Canada)

- Life and disability insurance

- Employee assistance programs

- Other benefits as provided by local policy and eligibility

Important Notice: Compensation (including bonuses, commissions, or other forms of incentive pay) is not considered earned, vested, or payable until it becomes due under the terms of applicable plans or agreements and is subject to Capgemini’s discretion, consistent with applicable laws. The Company reserves the right to amend or withdraw compensation programs at any time, within the limits of applicable legislation.

Disclaimers

Capgemini is an Equal Opportunity Employer encouraging inclusion in the workplace. Capgemini also participates in the Partnership Accreditation in Indigenous Relations (PAIR) program which supports meaningful engagement with Indigenous communities across Canada by promoting fairness, accessibility, inclusion and respect. We value the rich cultural heritage and contributions of Indigenous Peoples and actively work to create a welcoming and respectful environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, gender identity/expression, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, genetics, veteran status, marital status or any other characteristic protected by law.

This is a general description of the Duties, Responsibilities and Qualifications required for this position. Physical, mental, sensory or environmental demands may be referenced in an attempt to communicate the manner in which this position traditionally is performed. Whenever necessary to provide individuals with disabilities an equal employment opportunity, Capgemini will consider reasonable accommodations that might involve varying job requirements and/or changing the way this job is performed, provided that such accommodation does not pose an undue hardship. Capgemini is committed to providing reasonable accommodation during our recruitment process. If you need assistance or accommodation, please reach out to your recruiting contact.

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