Sr. Software Developer, Platform & Tooling

Genesys empowers organizations of all sizes to improve loyalty and business outcomes by creating the best experiences for their customers and employees. Through Genesys Cloud, the AI-powered Experience Orchestration platform, organizations can accelerate growth by delivering empathetic, personalized experiences at scale to drive customer loyalty, workforce engagement, efficiency and operational improvements.

We employ more than 6,000 people across the globe who embrace empathy and cultivate collaboration to succeed. And, while we offer great benefits and perks like larger tech companies, our employees have the independence to make a larger impact on the company and take ownership of their work. Join the team and create the future of customer experience together.

Role Overview:
Enable hundreds of engineers to build, deploy, and operate services reliably across global Genesys Cloud regions by shaping the internal platform that powers them. This role directly improves developer velocity, platform resilience, and service health at scale, influencing how quickly and safely new capabilities reach customers. You will own critical platform tooling and services that reduce operational risk while increasing autonomy for engineering teams. At Genesys, we are transforming how organizations deliver customer experiences through empathy and AI driven innovation, and this role plays a key part in ensuring our cloud platform remains scalable, observable, and easy to operate. You will partner across teams to define platform standards, drive adoption of best practices, and expand the capabilities of a globally distributed system.

This position offers exposure to large scale distributed systems, high impact platform initiatives, and opportunities to influence engineering practices across the organization. You will contribute to foundational systems that shape how developers build and deliver software, while expanding your expertise in cloud architecture, reliability engineering, and platform design.

Key Responsibilities:

• Own and evolve internal platform tooling that enables scalable, reliable service deployment across global cloud regions

• Design and deliver backend services and APIs that empower self service capabilities and reduce developer friction

• Drive improvements in system reliability, scalability, and performance through architectural enhancements and capacity planning

• Enhance platform observability to reduce mean time to detect and recover, improving overall service health and stability

• Build automated workflows that streamline operational processes and minimize manual intervention across environments

• Influence platform standards and engineering best practices across teams to ensure consistency and quality at scale

• Collaborate with cross functional stakeholders to align on platform strategy and deliver solutions that meet broad organizational needs

• Contribute to production excellence by supporting incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement initiatives

Required Qualifications:

• 4+ years of professional software development experience after completing formal education

• Authorization to work in Canada on a permanent basis without current or future employer sponsorship

• Strong backend development experience with Python and production grade service design

• Proven experience designing and building RESTful APIs in distributed environments

• Solid understanding of scalability, availability, and fault tolerance in distributed systems

• Hands on experience with AWS services such as DynamoDB, S3, SQS, SNS, and CloudFormation

• Experience with backend frameworks such as Flask, Django, or equivalent

• Strong experience with NoSQL data modeling for performance and operational efficiency

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to collaborate across distributed teams

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience building or operating internal developer platforms or platform tooling systems

• Familiarity with JavaScript frameworks or Node.js for developing supporting tooling or user interfaces

• Exposure to additional cloud providers such as Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud Platform

• Experience supporting production systems, including incident response and operational excellence practices

Benefits That Support You:
We invest in your well-being, because when you’re at your best, so are the experiences you create.

• Comprehensive extended group health coverage

• Generous paid time off, including vacation and personal leave

• Retirement savings program with employer RRSP matching up to a prescribed maximum amount

• Family-friendly benefits, including parental leave top-up and adoption assistance

• Growth and development opportunities through access to learning resources and internal mobility programs

Exact details of these programs, including the conditions for eligibility, the amount of the benefit (including caps on benefits and customary pricing details), the length of the paid time off, etc. will be provided upon hire and is subject to Genesys policies.

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This is an active opening at Genesys. We use Artificial Intelligence to support the hiring process, but every application is reviewed by our Talent Acquisition team, looking beyond keywords to focus on your experience and potential.

Compensation:

This role has a market-competitive salary with an anticipated base compensation range listed below. Actual salaries will vary depending on a candidate’s experience, qualifications, skills, and location. This role might also be eligible for a commission or performance-based bonus opportunities.  

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About Genesys:

Genesys® empowers more than 8,000 organizations worldwide to create the best customer and employee experiences. With agentic AI at its core, Genesys Cloud™ is the AI-Powered Experience Orchestration platform that connects people, systems, data and AI across the enterprise. As a result, organizations can drive customer loyalty, growth and retention while increasing operational efficiency and teamwork across human and AI workforces. To learn more, visit www.genesys.com.

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