# Lead Backend Developer, Distributed Systems (Remote)

Movable Ink scales content personalization for marketers through data-activated content generation and AI decisioning. The world’s most innovative brands rely on Movable Ink to maximize revenue, simplify workflow and boost marketing agility. Headquartered in New York City with close to 600 employees, Movable Ink serves its global client base with operations throughout North America, Central America, Europe, Australia, and Japan. Movable Ink is standing up a new Orchestration team to build the next-generation AI decisioning layer that coordinates every message a brand sends across email, mobile, and other channels. We are looking for a Lead Engineer to set the technical direction for this platform, partner closely with the team's Engineering Manager and senior technical stakeholders to shape its architecture, and lead the hands-on design and implementation of the system from prototype to production. This is a deeply technical, high-ownership role at the intersection of distributed systems and machine learning, with high executive visibility and the opportunity to shape one of the most strategic engineering investments at the company. This role will be reporting to the Engineering Ma

- **Id**: 3696067
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/movable-ink-lead-backend-developer-distributed-systems-remote>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: board_field
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Toronto, Canada
- **Countries**: CA
- **Hiring countries**: CA
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-03T17:56:21Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-03
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-07T15:50:19Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 4
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5825
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Marketing Automation, Email Marketing

## Company

- **Id**: 174544
- **Name**: Movable Ink
- **Domain**: movableink.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/movable-ink>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 83
- **Open postings**: 8
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.5
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 76
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 147300
- **Max**: 192000
- **Currency**: CAD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 137197

## Technologies

- **Akka** — Optional: no
- **Apache Kafka** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Clojure** — Optional: no
- **Elixir** — Optional: no
- **Erlang** — Optional: no
- **GCP** — Optional: no
- **Go** — Optional: no
- **gRPC** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Scala** — Optional: no
- **Dagster** — Optional: yes
- **Prefect** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 4

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **Canada** — Iso: CA; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-03T18:07:20Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 90
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 3
- **Expected fill days**: 76
- **Reasons**: conf:1, velocity, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 137197
- **Is top pay**: no

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