Senior Platform Engineer, FutureFit
CA$140-170k
End-to-End career transition platform
Posted today
End-to-End career transition platform
21-100 employees
Posted today
CA$140-170k
21-100 employees
Company mission
To empower individuals, employers, and communities to thrive in our new world of work by building better pathways between people, skills, and opportunities.
Role
Who you are
- Deep experience designing and automating workflows across cloud-based systems (AWS preferred)
- Proficiency with event-driven architectures using tools like AWS EventBridge, SQS, Lambda, or Kafka
- Strong backend development skills in TypeScript and Node.js, with experience automating operational and support processes
- Experience integrating third-party APIs and automating data flows across internal and external systems
- Knowledge of queueing, retries, and idempotency patterns to replace manual intervention with resilient automation
- Strong debugging and systems-thinking abilities to identify and remove process bottlenecks
- Excellent collaboration skills to work across support, customer success, and engineering functions
- 5–8+ years in platform, DevOps, or backend roles focused on operational tooling and workflow automation
- Led initiatives to reduce manual support tasks by building internal tools, automation, or self-serve systems
- Integrated with third-party legacy systems using async workloads
- Designed and maintained serverless or event-driven architectures to streamline async processes
- Implemented logging, alerting, and observability for support pipelines and integrations
- Worked in environments with high support load or external SLAs where reliability and speed matter
- Partnered with customer support or success teams to analyze common pain points and design technical solutions
- Your alma mater isn’t our focus. Your grit, hunger, and drive are. If you’re one who learns continuously, tackles challenges head-on, and knows your strengths and gaps intimately, you’re our person
What the job involves
- UtureFit AI is looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to join our team!
- You’ll play a critical role in building the backbone of our platform — designing smart, scalable systems that eliminate manual work, power seamless integrations, and set our team up to move faster with less friction
- It’s a hands-on, high-impact role that will make an outsized impact on how our team works, ships, and supports our users every day
- First 30 Days – Learn and Integrate
- Build relationships across your immediate team and cross-functional stakeholders
- Participate in shadowing sessions and onboarding exercises
- Get hands-on with the tools, systems, and workflows that are critical for the successful operation of our case management platform
- Solve issues manually in our technical support systems
- Identify key areas of improvement and plan how you’ll make meaningful change in our day to day operations
- Days 31–60 – Own and Execute
- Take ownership of toil reduction, and support system automation. Success is based on being able to build a sustainable system that can be managed by a non-technical person
- Create clear technical requirements for our vendor partner to execute on and manage acceptance testing of changes
- Surface learnings, blockers, and opportunities proactively so that planning for 3-6 months can be effective and accurate
- Prioritize work by balancing scope of impact and cost of labour
- Days 61–90 – Lead and Amplify
- Drive forward a self-initiated project aligned with strategic goals of eliminating technical resourcing for manual support exercises
- Monitor the impact of the improvements of the support systems and integrate non-technical counterparts in early features development
- Participate in customer calls to bring clarity to complicated workflows and the technical touchpoints for them
- Languages: TypeScript, Node.js
- Cloud: AWS (preferred)
- Architectures: Event-driven (e.g., AWS EventBridge, SQS, Lambda, Kafka)
- APIs: Integration with third-party APIs and data automation across systems
- Patterns & Practices: Queueing, retries, idempotency, logging, alerting, observability
Application process
- Online Application
- 1st Interview with Hiring Manager
- Coding Challenge
- Design Challenge
- Interview with CEO
- Final Decision
- Generally, this entire process takes around 4 weeks, although the timing can vary due to specific candidate circumstances
Our take
One of the key problems with assessing and predicting labor market trends comes from the difficulty of finding comprehensive, accurate, and meaningful data. FutureFit is a labor intelligence company helping people and companies algorithmically chart out career roadmaps, including proactive upskilling, job exploration, and placements.
The company draws from a competitively broad pool to train its algorithm, including marketplace profiles, existing job titles and labor market intelligence. This has won FutureFit's platform impressive industry recognition, including from the US Department of Education, and has put it head to head with the likes of Google and Harvard.
The pace of technological and robotic development has set a backdrop of unprecedented change for the labor market, leaving people and companies grappling with human redundancies and a shifting landscape of new career paths and skill sets. Further, with funding secured, FutureFit is accelerating product innovation and growth. With these meaningful navigation tools, the company seems set to continue its impressive growth.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Mar 2022
$4.5m
EARLY VC
Oct 2018
$0.8m
GRANT
Total funding: $5.3m
Company benefits
- Dual hubs: experience the best of both worlds with our offices in vibrant Toronto and bustling New York
- Founder access: work shoulder-to-shoulder with our visionary founding team to shape the future of AI
- Growth investment: Accelerate your career with our dedicated professional development budget
- Unlimited time off: recharge and explore with our trust-based, limited paid time off policy
- Comprehensive healthcare: rest easy with our robust health coveage, proioritizing your well-being
- Tech enablement: Stay cutting-edge with our technology reimbursement program
- Flexible lifestyle: Achieve work-life harmony with our flexible, trust-based scheduling
Company HQ
Civic Center, New York, NY
Leadership
Hamoon Ekhtiari
(CEO)Previously Founder of Audacious Futures. Has been on the Global Summit at Singularity University and a Speaker at Peace Talks Community.
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