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Commercial auto insurers and fleet software companies, including industry leaders like Intact Insurance, Penske, and Progressive, depend on our platform to access GPS, speeding, and vehicle data from 330+ telematics providers. We recently raised our Series A led by Battery Ventures and are backed by Y Combinator, Golden Ventures, Penske Transportation Solutions, and Intact Private Capital. Our team works together in person in Toronto, combining early-stage speed with late-stage maturity while processing many terabytes of vehicle data every day.\nFor more on working at Terminal, see our careers page at withterminal.com/careers.\nNote that this role is only open to Toronto/GTA-based candidates.\nAbout the role\nThis role spans everything our customers touch: the integrations that turn raw vehicle telematics from 330+ providers into clean data, the public APIs enterprises build against, the dashboards they work in, and the ingestion platform underneath it all. It is a mix of product and backend engineering, shaping the APIs and deeper backend components our customers depend on. If you want to be three layers of abstraction from the customer, this isn't the role for you.\nYou'll own systems end-to-end and help shape the product, not just build it. Working closely with customers, you'll turn their problems into the right abstractions and reusable components that scale. Your judgment directly shapes how customers launch products on high-volume telematics data to benefit vehicles and fleets on the road every day.\nWhat you'll do\nDesign new features and platform capabilities, partnering with teammates and customers to expand what Terminal can do.\n\nBuild the primitives that power our platform: connector frameworks, orchestration, monitoring, auth, testing, and more.\n\nShape how we build, not just what we build: the AI-powered tooling that lets the platform increasingly improve itself.\n\nAdd and maintain integrations across 330+ telematics providers, making messy, under-documented APIs reliable.\n\nWork with integration partners to shape their APIs, expand the data we can offer, and improve performance at the source.\n\nWork directly with customers: demos, implementations, and troubleshooting threads.\n\nWork day to day in TypeScript/Node.js to deploy services on AWS.\n\nWhat we're looking for\nA strong backend engineer who's shipped and owned production systems end to end.\n\nCan be trusted with hard architecture decisions.\n\nThrives against messy, undocumented, uncooperative external systems and makes them reliable anyway.\n\nDepth in distributed systems: you anticipate failures and can debug fast when things break.\n\nPlatform builder: you make the systems other teams stand on, and design them to last.\n\nSound judgment in ambiguity: you scope before building and know when to go deep on details VS ship fast experiments.\n\nCustomer-facing: you want to be in the demo, the implementation call, and the hard troubleshooting thread so you can learn more about our customers.\n\nStrong in Node.js and TypeScript, or confident to pick it up fast.\n\nYou don't need to check every box. 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All compensation is base salary plus meaningful equity.\nSenior: base $185,000 to $230,000 + equity\n\nStaff: base $220,000 to $285,000 + equity\n\nBenefits\nStrong compensation and equity packages.\n\nBrand new MacBook and computer equipment.\n\nTop-tier health/dental benefits and a flexible healthcare spending account.\n\nPersonal spending account for professional development, fitness and wellness.\n\nFour weeks paid time off + statutory holidays.\n\nIn-person culture with an office located in downtown Toronto.\n\nThe interview process\nIntro call with the engineering team (30 min)\n\nVirtual system design (60 min)\n\nOn-site technical loop (120 min)\n\nOn-site culture loop + final (180 min)\n\nAccessibility and accommodation\nTerminal is committed to an accessible hiring process. If you need an accommodation at any stage - applying, interviewing, or completing an assessment - email  and we will work with you to meet your needs. 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