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Senior Go / PHP Backend Engineer, Distributed Systems

About the job

Added 1 week ago
Company WEBTOON Entertainment Inc. (Wattpad & WEBTOON Family of Brands)
Salary CA$120,000—CA$160,000
Status Full-time
Seniority Senior
Equity No
Locations Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, United States, Canada
Setting Fully-remote

Description summary

You join Wattpad’s Core Platforms team to build and improve the backend systems that power its global storytelling platform. You help design, code, and maintain large distributed services in Go and PHP, working with tools like Redis, MySQL, S3, and DynamoDB to handle very high traffic. You are responsible for creating shared tools and frameworks for other engineers, improving reliability and performance, writing tests, and guiding best practices across the team. To succeed, you bring 5 to 7 or more years of software experience, strong skills in Go and PHP, and hands-on knowledge of cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP, Docker, Kubernetes or ECS, and monitoring at scale. The role is full time, remote friendly for people authorized to work in the US or Canada (except Quebec), with strong benefits, support for learning, generous vacation and leave, and optional offices in Toronto and Halifax.

Technologies

  • Amazon ECS
  • Amazon S3
  • Ansible
  • AWS
  • Cloudflare
  • Docker
  • DynamoDB
  • Go
  • Google Cloud Platform
  • groupcache
  • Kubernetes
  • Memcached
  • MySQL
  • PHP
  • Redis
  • Terraform
  • Travis CI

Perks and benefits

  • Career development support, mentorship, and investment in your learning goals

  • Comprehensive health benefits, including vision and dental coverage

  • Annual personal health and wellness spending account

  • RRSP contributions in Canada and 401(k) contributions in the US

  • Generous vacation policy and maternity/parental leave top-up program

  • Corporate discounts on gym memberships for you and your family

  • Ability to work remotely from almost anywhere in the world for part of the year

  • Winter break shutdown and other additional time-off benefits

Interview process

  • All interviews are conducted remotely using online tools such as Google Meet and Zoom.

What you need to know about WEBTOON Entertainment Inc. (Wattpad & WEBTOON Family of Brands), the company

WEBTOON Entertainment Inc. is a global entertainment company that builds story-focused digital platforms for comics and fiction. Headquartered in Los Angeles with roots in South Korea, it operates the WEBTOON webcomic platform and the Wattpad webnovel community, connecting creators and readers around the world.

The company develops and adapts intellectual property through brands like Wattpad WEBTOON Studios, Studio N, Studio LICO, LINE Manga, and eBookJapan, turning online stories into books, films, television, and animation. Its ecosystem reaches around 170 million monthly active users in more than 150 countries, and its mission is to inspire people everywhere through accessible, creator-driven storytelling.

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