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Let your career take flight by joining our diverse and vibrant team at the leading edge of passenger aviation.\nWe’re seeking a creative and detail-oriented Back-end developer to play a critical role in ensuring our systems operate seamlessly behind the scenes by designing, building, and maintaining robust, scalable, and secure backend systems. The successful candidate will play a key role integrating applications with required systems, including legacy architectures, and provide clean, well-documented APIs for the frontend. This role will be responsible for the application’s performance, reliability, and scalability. Proactive and collaborative, Back-end developers optimize databases, implement best practices, and ensure data security, all while staying ahead of emerging technologies to deliver innovative, future-ready solutions.\nThese are exciting times for IT at Air Canada, with many major projects underway that will transform the IT landscape. 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