Job Overview
Location
Canada
Job Type
Full-time
Category
Backend Engineer
Date Posted
May 12, 2026
Full Job Description
📋 Description
- • The Core Backend team owns the systems and internal tooling that every other product team at Top Hat depends on, making this role critical for company-wide performance and reliability.
- • You will own core backend systems, libraries, and internal developer tooling used across product development and customer support, focusing on performance, reliability, and architectural improvements with high downstream impact.
- • You will collaborate broadly with developers and non-developers, adjusting your communication style to fit the audience, while breaking down ambiguous problems into concrete steps and building accurate mental models of large, unfamiliar codebases.
- • You will take full ownership of code quality and technical standards, refactoring as necessary to maintain a long-lived codebase, and leave systems measurably better than you found them through profiling, optimization, and deep systems thinking.
🎯 Requirements
- • 2+ years of industry, research, or graduate-level experience, including at least 2 years working in large codebases with complex algorithms and data structures
- • Experience working at the level of compilers, databases, game engines, OS/browser internals, or high-frequency trading systems
- • Proficiency in programming on Linux/BSD/MacOS, Python (FastAPI, Django), SQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL), distributed systems, and profiling & optimization
🏖️ Benefits
- • Flexible, remote first work environment
- • Competitive health benefits that start on day one
- • Professional learning and development for all role levels
- • Innovative PTO policy with lots of time and space for self-care
- • Awesome and welcoming Toronto HQ
- • Chance to work with new tech like generative AI and see customer impact
Skills & Technologies
About Top Hat Monocle Inc.
Top Hat provides a cloud-based active learning platform used by higher-education instructors to create interactive lectures, assign homework, and administer secure tests and quizzes. Students respond in real time via smartphones or laptops, enabling immediate feedback and analytics. The company integrates with learning management systems and offers content marketplaces to support course creation and engagement across disciplines.
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