Senior Product Engineer II - Backend

Location: Toronto, Ontario Workplace: Hybrid Artificial Intelligence. Actual Impact. At Docebo, we’re using AI to change how people learn at work—and we mean actually change it. We’re an AI-powered learning platform that helps organizations create, deliver, and manage training all in one place. But our real mission goes deeper: we help teams move faster, work smarter, and focus on the work that truly matters. Our platform is built with intelligent, time-saving tools that personalize learning, eliminate busywork, and turn training from a checkbox into a superpower. The result? Better experiences for learners and real results for businesses. We’re shaping the future of learning with a team that isn’t afraid to challenge the status quo. If you're excited by the idea of using AI to make work-life better for real people–you’ll feel right at home here. And it’s not just what we build, it’s how we show up. At Docebo, our values aren’t just posters on the wall—they guide how we work every day. We call it the Docebo Heart: trust by default, assume positive intent, and create space for different perspectives to thrive. So… what are you waiting for? Join 900+ Docebians around the world and help us reinvent the way people learn, because learning never stops. THE ADVENTURE AHEAD 🚀 As a Senior Product Engineer II, you bring deep expertise in backend engineering alongside strong working competency across the broader stack. You own complex features and technical initiatives end to end, working across services, APIs, data layers, and integration boundaries to deliver complete solutions. Your primary strength is building reliable backend systems, designing scalable APIs, and shaping cloud native and event driven architectures. You understand how the broader system fits together and can confidently work across frontend and platform boundaries when needed. Beyond your individual technical output, you function as a technical anchor within your squad. You help drive technical direction, mentor peers, coordinate dependencies, and ensure the team can consistently deliver high quality software without creating unnecessary knowledge silos.   THE DAY-TO-DAY ⚒️ - Own complex initiatives end to end Drive multi sprint technical initiatives from architecture through implementation, production deployment, and ongoing evolution. - Build reliable backend systems Design and evolve services, APIs, data models, and asynchronous workflows that support complete customer outcomes. - Work across system boundaries Navigate frontend applications, backend services, data layers, and platform integrations to deliver complete solutions. - Set technical direction Bring deep backend expertise while shaping architecture decisions and engineering patterns across the broader system. - Make durable technical decisions Evaluate complex tradeoffs around consistency, performance, reliability, and security, balancing immediate delivery with long term scalability and maintainability. - Anchor the squad Break down complex work, coordinate technical dependencies, unblock others, and help the team maintain delivery momentum. - Drive engineering excellence Raise the bar for testing, CI/CD, observability, architecture, code quality, and pragmatic technical debt management. - Partner across functions Work with Product, Design, QA, SRE, platform teams, and engineering groups to translate customer problems into reliable solutions. - Level up the team Mentor engineers through architecture discussions, design reviews, code reviews, pairing, and knowledge sharing. YOUR SUPERPOWERS⚡️ - Engineering depth and breadth Six or more years of software engineering experience, with deep expertise in backend engineering and strong working competency across the broader stack. - End to end ownership A proven record of owning complex technical initiatives from architecture through production deployment and operation. - System design expertise Strong understanding of service architecture, APIs, distributed systems, cloud services, and maintainable production software. - Data modelling and databases Strong experience designing and evolving data models, schemas, and access patterns, with an understanding of relational databases, query performance, indexing, migrations, and data integrity. - Asynchronous and event driven systems Experience building reliable background processing, messaging, and event driven workflows across services and integration boundaries. - Production reliability The ability to reason about failure modes, concurrency, retries, data consistency, and performance across services and integration boundaries. - Technical leadership The ability to guide engineers through uncertainty, establish effective architecture patterns, and raise engineering standards. - Integration fluency Comfort navigating unfamiliar systems and safely evolving APIs, service contracts, and integrations, including the frontend applications that depend on them. - Engineering excellence Strong experience with automated testing, CI/CD, observability, monitoring, and pragmatic technical debt management. - Collaborative communication The ability to explain tradeoffs, challenge assumptions constructively, and align Engineering, Product, Design, QA, and platform stakeholders. BONUS POINTS 🌟 - Cloud and event driven systems Cloud native applications using serverless services, messaging, asynchronous workflows, or event driven architecture. - Infrastructure and delivery Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipelines, deployment strategies, or production operations. - Backend breadth Experience across multiple backend languages, frameworks, or runtime environments, and confidence choosing appropriate tools for the problem. - Security and tenancy Authentication, authorization, tenant isolation, and secure handling of customer data. - Frontend competency Working experience with modern frontend frameworks, application state, and API integration. - Production observability Monitoring, tracing, logging, metrics, incident diagnosis, and performance tuning. - Technical growth Experience acting as a technical lead or clear progression toward broader Staff level leadership. OUR STACK 🛠️ - Backend and platform systems include Node.js, Go, PHP, Python, AWS, REST APIs, event driven architectures, relational databases, CI/CD, and modern observability tooling. Frontend applications include Angular and modern web technologies. - You do not need deep expertise in every technology we use. We are looking for deep backend expertise, strong software engineering fundamentals, and confidence applying your experience across languages, frameworks, and system boundaries. OUR HYBRID WORK PHILOSOPHY 🤝 Great work can happen anywhere but coming together helps us go further. Our team spends three days a week in the office (Tuesday-Thursday) to collaborate, solve problems, and learn from each other. With flexibility the rest of the week, it’s a balance designed to help everyone do their best work and keep growing. OUR TOTAL REWARDS PHILOSOPHY 🎉 Our Total Rewards Philosophy centers around three core areas to reward and care for our People: - Rewarding Impact: We lead with competitive pay to reward the impact, skills and traits that fuel our success. - Fostering Holistic Wellbeing: We care deeply about and invest in the whole person with programs that support our people’s physical, mental, and financial well-being. - Empowering Our Talent Culture: We build a culture of trust and empowerment by designing our rewards and benefits with transparency, equity, and flexibility, enabling our people to do their best work and stay for the long haul. OUR PROMISE TO YOU 😍 - Financial Wellness: Own a piece of Docebo through our Employee Share Purchase Plan (ESPP) at a 15% discount, plus a competitive compensation package. - Your Well-Being, Covered: You’ll get access to health benefits, so you can get the care you need when you need it. - Rest, Relax, Repeat: Rest and recharge with paid vacation days, two company-wide Docebo Days, floating holidays for cultural celebrations, and your birthday off! - Family First: We provide coverage offering you time with your little one(s) so you can soak up all those precious moments. Fun fact: we had 30 Docebian babies join the family in 2025! - Connections That Count: Connect with global communities through our Employee Resource Groups (including PRIDE, DWA, BIDOC, and Green Ambassadors) and company-wide events that keep the fun rolling all year long. ABOUT DOCEBO 💙 At Docebo, we create seamless, AI-powered learning experiences for over 3,000 customers worldwide. We have successfully achieved two IPOs (TSX: DCBO & NASDAQ: DCBO https://www.docebo.inc/home/default.aspx), been recognized as a top SaaS e-learning solution, and are growing exponentially in the process. We're a global company, with office across North America, EMEA, APAC, and beyond. Our team is guided by five core values—Grow Together Win Together, Build with Our Customer, Clear is Kind, Own Outcomes, Progress Over Perfection—that shape everything we do. If this resonates with you, now is the perfect time to join one of the fastest-growing learning technology companies in the world. Docebo is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2022-10/EEOC_KnowYourRights_screen_reader_10_20.pdf. We are committed to diversity and inclusion in our workforce. All qualified applicants and employees will receive consideration for employment regardless of their race, colour, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), national origin, citizenship status, age, disability, genetic information, or any other category protected under applicable law. As a federal contractor, Docebo is committed to the principles of affirmative action and equal employment opportunity for protected veterans and individuals with disabilities. Docebo does not discriminate because of protected veteran status or on the basis of disability, and Docebo takes affirmative action to employ and advance in employment qualified protected veterans and individuals with disabilities. Any individuals requiring a reasonable accommodation or would like to voluntarily disclose a disability or protected veteran status to assist with their employment application should send an e-mail to their recruiter directly.