Senior/Staff Backend Engineer, Payments Reliability

We are hiring a Senior/Staff Backend Engineer to help evolve and strengthen Canopy's payments and billing infrastructure.

As our platform grows, we are investing in building a robust, scalable payments foundation with strong engineering standards, operational controls, and reliability best practices. This role will be a key technical leader in shaping how payments workflows are designed, implemented, and maintained across the organization.

You'll work cross-functionally with product, engineering, QA, and operations to ensure payments systems remain resilient, observable, and easy to safely extend as new capabilities are introduced.

What You'll Do:

• 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, Application processes can be a little stressful. Here are the stages of a typical interview process at Canopy:
• Once your application is received, we will review it and get back to you if we feel like it's a mutual fit!
• 20-minute phone call with the People Team
• 45-60-minute video or in-person interview with the Hiring Manager
• 1-3 rounds of interviews, depending on the role
• Final Interview

• 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

Bonus Points If You Have:

• 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
• Experience with Kiv

AD&D insurance, Health insurance, 401(k) matching, Paid time off, Vision insurance, Health savings account, Dental insurance, Employee assistance program, Flexible Paid Time Off - you're actually encouraged to use, plus 10 company holidays!

️ Health Benefits - including Medical, Dental, and Vision and an HSA Match.

401(k) - we match 100% up to 3% of your contribution. Eligibility is immediate with 100% vesting.

Mental Health - all employees have access to Impact Suite & to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP).

Paid New Parent Leave & Birthing Parent Leave - so you're able to care for your little ones.

Supplemental Benefits - including 100% company paid Basic Life & AD&D insurance and long & short-term disability coverage.

Nectar - our peer-to-peer recognition program to help our employees recognize the amazing work being done by other Canopians!

Company Events - including monthly company-wide meetings, summer parties, and more.

ERG Committees - to plan initiatives around continuing education, community outreach, recruiting, onboarding, and more.

• Fully-stocked kitchen - Keto? Vegan? Flexitarian? Mandalorian? We've got you covered.

Our Values

We approach our work every day with a few things in mind:

Own - We own this place! We focus on outcomes, holding ourselves & each other accountable.

Win - We win by delighting our customers with the very best products and services.

Do Good - We work hard to be good people!

Embrace Curiosity & Candor - We approach everything with curiosity & we understand that candor is kindness and give the gift of feedback.

Act Startup Fast - We know the best way to become a world-class company is to always act like a tiny startup: fast, hungry, intense, and scrappy. But especially fast.

Canopy is a fast-growing SaaS company in South Jordan, Utah building simple, efficient software for accounting firms. We are looking to revolutionize the accounting space with modern, user-friendly software for a neglected industry. We aim to help our clients unlock the firm they've always wanted with our Practice Management Suite. We place a strong emphasis on delighting our customers, spotting and solving problems, and being good people along the way. And we just secured $70M in Series C funding to help us fulfill that mission.