Senior/Staff Backend Engineer, Payments Reliability

Canopy is a fast-growing SaaS company in South Jordan, Utah building simple, efficient software for accounting firms. They are seeking a Senior/Staff Backend Engineer to evolve and strengthen their payments and billing infrastructure, ensuring robust and scalable systems while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the design and development of core backend services supporting payments and billing workflows
• Implement microservice endpoints using Python, PostgreSQL, Redis, RabbitMQ, and anything else you need to get the job done
• Establish and enforce engineering patterns for safe payment execution, including idempotency, auditability, and fault tolerance
• Build shared infrastructure and APIs that enable teams to integrate with payments in a consistent, reliable way
• Improve observability through logging, monitoring, tracing, and operational alerting
• Develop testing strategies and harnesses that validate real-world failure scenarios and edge cases
• Partner with product and engineering leaders to define a long-term roadmap for payments platform improvements
• Mentor engineers and raise the bar on backend quality, resilience, and technical decision-making
• Participate in architectural reviews and guide best practices across teams
• Participate in interviews of candidates to help us continue to hire the best

Requirements:

• At least 5 years of web development experience (Python required, Java/Kotlin preferred)
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent work experience
• Strong experience working with payment processors as well as building and operating distributed systems in production
• Deep understanding of backend reliability principles, including safe retries, consistency, and fault tolerance
• Knowledge of RESTful API principles and conventions
• Passion for building innovative, scalable solutions that have real customer impact
• Ability to work well on a highly collaborative team and with other cross functional stakeholders
• Able to coordinate and lead out on large initiatives that can span several teams
• Ability to communicate well across teams and departments to promote ideas while showing mutual respect for others' opinions
• An interest for AI development and following the latest updates in the space
• Experience working with microservices
• Experience with leveraging 3rd party APIs and integrations