Senior Product Engineer II - Backend

The role

You will own complex technical initiatives from architecture through production deployment. You will build reliable backend systems, design scalable APIs, and act as a technical anchor for your squad.

What you will do

• Own complex initiatives end to end
• Build reliable backend systems
• Work across system boundaries
• Set technical direction
• Make durable technical decisions
• Anchor the squad
• Drive engineering excellence
• Partner across functions
• Level up the team

Required qualifications

• Six or more years of software engineering experience
• Deep expertise in backend engineering
• Strong working competency across the broader stack
• Proven record of owning complex technical initiatives from architecture through production deployment and operation
• Strong understanding of service architecture, APIs, distributed systems, cloud services, and maintainable production software
• Strong experience designing and evolving data models, schemas, and access patterns
• Experience building reliable background processing, messaging, and event driven workflows
• Ability to reason about failure modes, concurrency, retries, data consistency, and performance
• Ability to guide engineers through uncertainty, establish effective architecture patterns, and raise engineering standards
• Comfort navigating unfamiliar systems and safely evolving APIs, service contracts, and integrations
• Strong experience with automated testing, CI/CD, observability, monitoring, and pragmatic technical debt management
• Ability to explain tradeoffs, challenge assumptions constructively, and align stakeholders

Nice to have

• Cloud native applications using serverless services, messaging, asynchronous workflows, or event driven architecture
• Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipelines, deployment strategies, or production operations
• Experience across multiple backend languages, frameworks, or runtime environments
• Authentication, authorization, tenant isolation, and secure handling of customer data
• Working experience with modern frontend frameworks, application state, and API integration
• Monitoring, tracing, logging, metrics, incident diagnosis, and performance tuning
• Experience acting as a technical lead or clear progression toward broader Staff level leadership

Benefits

• Employee Share Purchase Plan (ESPP) at a 15% discount
• Competitive compensation package
• Health benefits
• Paid vacation days
• Two company-wide Docebo Days
• Floating holidays for cultural celebrations
• Birthday off
• Family coverage for time with little ones
• Access to Employee Resource Groups

About the company

Docebo is an AI-powered learning platform that helps organizations create, deliver, and manage training. It is a global company with offices across North America, EMEA, APAC, and beyond.