Staff Backend Software Engineer

We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer, Backend to join our Reverse ETL product engineering team

Formerly Census, we were acquired in May 2025 to augment Fivetran’s warehouse-first data movement product story. Now we’re integrating our entire product directly into the Fivetran dashboard, bringing best-in-class data activation to every Fivetran customer

As a staff software engineer in Reverse ETL, you’ll be on the front lines of integrating data activation capabilities into the Fivetran product along every dimension – authentication, billing, data model, UI and more. You’ll be a senior member of a distributed, collaborative, agile team of engineers of varying experience levels and diverse backgrounds

Make contributions to all parts of our tech stack, which comprises Ruby on Rails, Typescript, Vue, and AWS

Be comfortable “filling in the gaps” in product / design specs. The prospect of being able to prototype to test ideas out before committing to building is exciting to you

Work closely with our product team, leaders, and customers to help design and develop features that make Fivetran the one-stop shop for data activation

Mentor early-career engineers, perform thoughtful and constructive code reviews, advise on best practices, provide project-level leadership, operate across teams, departments, and time zones

Lead major projects, from driving research spikes, to writing and socializing design documents, to planning the implementation and rollout- Proven experience in system integration, including API consumption and development (experience with infrastructure management is a bonus)

Experience being on-call

Expertise in at least one interpreted language such as Python, Ruby on Rails, etc

Hands-on experience with at least one compiled language such as C++, Kotlin, Scala, Go, Java, etc

Solid understanding of relational databases (experience with data warehousing solutions (e.g., Snowflake) is a bonus)

Familiarity with leading cloud providers, such as GCP, AWS, or Azure

Present and available online for synchronous and asynchronous collaboration with a team distributed across North America

Is customer-focused, with an eye for building delightful product experiences and developer experiences

Thrives in ambiguous environments where you get to work directly with customers and make decisions that build trust and have a huge impact on the business

Able to work in-person in our Toronto/Oakland office 2 days per week

Approaches new problems with a scrappy optimism, with a bias towards action

Can build things end-to-end. Our engineers build, deploy and maintain their code

Is adept with data, backend systems, APIs, and UI components