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How do we stay ahead of the pack? By hiring the best and brightest minds-and that’s why we want you!\nJob Description:\nAbout Hapiko\nHapiko makes Stickerbox, a voice-activated sticker printer for kids. A child says whatever they can imagine, and seconds later it's a real sticker in their hand. Hapiko is a Spin Master company, so we pair a small, senior engineering team with the reach of one of the world's largest toy companies.\nWhat will you work on?\nYou'll own everything behind that moment: the real-time connection layer, the API, the job pipeline and the cloud infrastructure every device talks to. We're a small team building a first-of-its-kind product and scaling it globally, and the backend has to stay fast, safe for kids and affordable as we grow.\nThis is a hands-on, end-to-end ownership role. The foundations are in place. Your job is to harden them, scale them and set the standards others follow as the team grows.\nHow will you create impact?\nOwn the API and job queues that every sticker request runs through.\nKeep the real-time connection layer that devices rely on healthy and reliable, partnering with our firmware engineer.\nTune and extend autoscaling so the system handles holiday spikes and a growing fleet, partnering with our ML Serving engineer on GPU inference.\nMature our observability: metrics, logs, tracing and alerts that tell us what's wrong before families do.\nBuild cost instrumentation so we can see what each request, model and service actually costs.\nOwn release engineering for server-side services, including safe deploys, database migrations and fast rollback.\nPartner with our Trust & Safety engineer on abuse prevention, device security and privacy for a kids' product.\nShare on-call and make the rotation quieter over time.\nWhat are your skills and experience?\nDepth in Python and PostgreSQL.\nElixir experience, or real interest in learning it.\nYou've owned production infrastructure end to end, not just written code that runs on it.\nYou've scaled a queue-driven or real-time system through an order of magnitude of traffic growth.\nYou're comfortable being paged for systems you own, and you work to make that happen less.\n#LI-Hybrid #LI-HM1\nThe anticipated pay range for candidates who will work in Ontario is $136,700 to $182,300 Per Annum. The offered pay to a successful candidate will be dependent on several factors that may include but are not limited to years of experience within the job, years of experience within the required industry, education, etc. Spin Master Inc. is a multi-state employer, and this salary range may not reflect positions that work only in other states.\nThis job posting is tied to an open vacancy.\nWhat you can expect from us:\nOur mission is to Make Life More Fun with a vision to push the boundaries of innovation, creativity, and fun.\n • Growth and Career Opportunities\n • Flexible Work Hours\n • Innovation, Collaboration and Fun\n • Comprehensive Benefits\n • Other fun Perks!\nWhat’s it like to work here?\nSpin Master is a fast-paced, hands-on organization that provides many great opportunities for impactful decision-making; though our challenging start-up atmosphere isn’t for everyone, we have a proven record of opportunities for future advancement and internal transfers for our passionate and results driven team.\nEveryone is welcome in our sandbox and we are committed to an accessible and inclusive hiring process that provides reasonable accommodation to all applicants.\nSpin Master strives to create an accessible and inclusive application and selection process and is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to job applicants who may require provisions to participate in the recruitment, selection and/or assessment processes. 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