Senior II Backend Developer - Foundation
Coveo · Montreal (Province of Quebec, Canada)
Posted 27 days ago
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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 27 days Coveo's roles stay open a median of 45 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 0% of Coveo's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Coveo
- high 30 stale, 4 reposted of 59 open
- Hiring momentum
- 84 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-09-17
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Coveo's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Coveo.
About this role
As a Senior II Backend Developer on the R&D Backend Foundation team, you will focus on building foundational tools and standards for the Coveo Platform™. Your role involves developing critical services, collaborating with teams to improve engineering practices, and enhancing system reliability and scalability. You will also take ownership of the development lifecycle, from design to deployment, while addressing complex technical challenges.
- benefits
- 1/5
- freshness
- 4/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 4/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Coveo as an employer.
What you need
- At least 8 years of experience building and operating backend in cloud environments (Java / Spring Boot preferred, AWS an asset).
- Demonstrated experience designing reusable software, libraries, or tooling for large-scale systems with complex infrastructure or a significant user base.
- Ability to independently navigate complex technical challenges, assess trade-offs and risks, and drive solutions with long-term impact.
- A collaborative and resourceful approach, with the ability to communicate complex technical ideas, mentor others, and influence engineering practices across teams.
Nice to have
- Experience with infrastructure and orchestration technologies such as Terraform and Kubernetes.
- Familiarity with continuous integration systems such as GitHub Actions or equivalent technologies.
- Experience contributing to or maintaining open-source libraries.
- Experience with platform engineering, service meshes like Istio, developer tooling, or improving the developer experience at scale.
Worth weighing
- No salary listed.
- The role involves significant ownership and responsibility throughout the development lifecycle, which may appeal to candidates looking for a high-impact position.
- The position requires navigating complex technical challenges, which may be demanding for some candidates.
Summarised from Coveo's posting. Read the full original.
Listed by Coveo on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-17. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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