Equitable Bank

Banking

SeniorBackendEngineer

Toronto, Ontario, Canada FULL TIME Remote Friendly
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Senior Backend Engineer at Equitable Bank. Skills: backend services, agentic workflows, service design, API contracts. design backend services. implement backend services”

Industry & Context.

Banking
Problems you'll solve

resolve operational workflows; accelerate investigations; back-office execution; reason about failure modes; build deterministic lifecycle handling; incident response

Eligibility Requirements

after-hours readiness, criminal background check, credit check

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

backend engineering fundamentals, service design, distributed systems, async workflows, systems where correctness is enforced through contracts, tests, and runtime guarantees, agent orchestration, workflow engines, tool-calling systems, evaluation frameworks for LLM/agent behavior, reason about failure modes across system boundaries, deterministic lifecycle handling, observability, incident response, operational readiness, data privacy constraints, consent-based integrations

Nice to Have

experience designing systems where correctness is enforced through contracts, tests, and runtime guarantees rather than tribal knowledge, practical experience with at least one of: agent orchestration, workflow engines, tool-calling systems, or evaluation frameworks for LLM/agent behavior, ability to reason about failure modes across system boundaries (vendor + internal) and build deterministic lifecycle handling, production mindset: observability, incident response, and operational readiness, comfort operating under data privacy constraints and consent-based integrations

What You'll Do.

design backend services

implement backend services

build agentic workflows

implement agentic task flows

build evaluation harnesses

validate correctness boundaries

strengthen cross-system lifecycle guarantees

build knowledge ingestion pipelines

implement production-grade observability

contribute to release readiness

own services end to end

workflow state modeling

after-hours readiness

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

partnership with central teams

Full Job Description

## Description Join a Challenger Being a traditional bank just isn’t our thing, so we challenge ourselves to get creative in providing innovative banking solutions for Canadians. How do we get there? With a talented team of inquisitive and agile challengers that break through the status quo. So, if you’re passionate about redefining the future of banking—while having fun—this could be your next big opportunity. Our company continues to grow, and today we serve more than 800,000 customers across Canada through Equitable Bank, Canada's Challenger Bank™, and have been around for more than 50 years. Equitable Bank's wholly-owned subsidiary, Concentra Bank, supports credit unions across Canada that serve more than six million members. Together we have over $142 billion in combined assets under management and administration, with a clear mandate to drive change in Canadian banking to enrich people's lives. Our customers have named our EQ Bank digital platform (eqbank.ca) one of the top banks in Canada on the Forbes World's Best Banks list since 2021.  CARE Pod sits on the critical path for how customers get help and how internal teams resolve operational workflows. We own customer-facing support experiences (chat + contact center integrations), enablement tooling, and a growing portfolio of agentic workflows that accelerate investigations and back-office execution.  We are hiring a Senior backend engineer to build and productionize agentic systems that are safe, observable, and auditable while strengthening service boundaries and lifecycle correctness across vendor and internal platforms.  The focus is to move toward:    Clearer service ownership and deterministic lifecycle behavior across systems   Well-defined, testable contracts between internal services and vendors  Observable and explainable runtime behavior for AI workflows and integrations  Repeatable evaluation and regression gating for non-deterministic agent outputs Predictable and low-risk releases aligned to o

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