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As a member of the Platform team, you'll work across the stack with a focus on backend systems - building the core services, APIs, and infrastructure that power our expanding product suite. This role offers the opportunity to work on meaningful projects that are central to Pixieset’s continued growth. You’ll collaborate closely with Product, Design, and Engineering peers to ship high-impact features, improve scalability, and enhance the developer experience across teams. If you are self-motivated, collaborative, and passionate about technology, we’d love for you to join our team.\nYour Impact\nDesign, develop, and implement product features across the full stack, with a focus on backend development using PHP (Laravel).\nWrite clean, efficient, and well-documented code to support scalable backend systems and user-facing functionality\nDeliver everything from user-facing improvements to backend optimizations and scalable system enhancements spanning multiple codebases\nHelp improve and maintain the Pixieset product architecture, APIs, databases, and infrastructure\nCollaborate with stakeholders to define requirements and work with team members to solve complex technical challenges\nParticipate in code reviews and ensure adherence to coding standards and best practices\nResearch and integrate new technologies to enhance performance, security, and the development process\nRole Requirements\n3+ years of experience as a Backend Developer or Platform Engineer building scalable backend services and infrastructure\nExperience with PHP and preferably its frameworks (Laravel, Yii, or Symfony)\nExperience with JavaScript and preferably ES6, Webpack\nExperience with relational database management (MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc.)\nSolid understanding of data structures and algorithms, and web technologies, including HTTP, RESTful services, Docker, and cloud platforms such as AWS\nWhat We Offer\nHybrid work environment (2 in-office days per week)\n4 weeks of annual vacation & paid time off for office holiday closures\nRRSP matching\n$2,000 annual health & lifestyle spending account\n$1,000 annual education budget\n$1,000 annual charitable donation matching\nComprehensive benefits: extended health, critical illness, long-term disability & life insurance\nCompany-issued MacBook & home office budget\nAnniversary rewards & complimentary Pixieset premium account\nTeam-building activities & company-wide events\nA workplace recognized for excellence - proudly certified as a Great Place to Work™, ranked among Canada’s Best Workplaces,™ and named one of Canada’s Top Small & Medium Employers\nThe typical salary range for this position is CAD $96,900 - $132,300 annually. 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