Backend Developer

Company Description

BUMP provides secure charitable lottery and fundraising platform solutions to most recognizable professional sports foundations and well-known and distinguished not-for-profits across North America. Our Mission is to be the most valued partner to charities and not-for-profits, providing fundraising products, services, and creativity, with the goal to maximize charitable revenue. Our Vision is to be the world's leader in fundraising solutions helping our partners significantly change people's lives and communities for the better.

At BUMP we seek long-term relationships with our employees and recognize and reward them with a competitive total compensation package that includes:

• An industry-leading defined contribution pension plan with company matching contributions (up to 5%) and payment of service fees;
• Best-in-class health, medical, and life insurance benefits;
• Access to virtual and telehealth services and apps; and
• Very progressive fertility, adoption, and surrogacy benefits to support all definitions of family.

Job Description

Job Title: Backend Developer

Job Type: Permanent, Full-Time

Work Model: Hybrid

Location: 18 Auriga Drive

Job Status: Existing Vacancy

Position Summary

As a Backend Developer on our Prediction Markets team, you will help build and maintain a secure, multi-tenant prediction-market platform designed for Latin American markets. You will contribute to APIs, databases, integrations, background processing, real-time services, financial workflows, and production support.

Responsibilities

Backend Application Development

• Design, implement, test, and maintain backend services using PHP and Laravel.
• Develop background jobs, scheduled tasks, queue-driven workflows, and retry processes.
• Support real-time updates using Redis, Laravel Reverb, and WebSockets.
• Contribute to market-data imports, price feeds, resolution monitoring, and market localization.
• Contribute to ledger, fee, reconciliation, and reporting workflows.

API & Integration Development

• Develop REST and GraphQL APIs for public, administrative, and integration use cases.
• Integrate with external transactional, sportsbook, wallet, market-data, and trading APIs.
• Maintain backward compatibility when changing APIs, database structures, GraphQL schemas, or event contracts.
• Implement explicit handling for timeouts, retries, duplicate messages, rate limits, stale data, and partial failures.

Database & Data Management

• Create and maintain PostgreSQL database schemas, migrations, relationships, indexes, and queries.
• Build and maintain deterministic financial reports, audit trails, and data exports.

Security, Compliance & Governance

• Implement request validation, authentication, authorization, role-based access control, and audit logging.
• Build and maintain audit trails and reporting capabilities to support compliance and traceability.
• Ensure tenant data isolation and secure access controls within multi-tenant environments.

Platform Architecture & Multi-Tenant Solutions

• Contribute to multi-tenant application development, domain-based tenant resolution, and tenant data isolation.
• Design and support scalable, resilient backend services and distributed processing workflows.
• Maintain compatibility across evolving application, data, and integration architectures.

Quality Assurance, Testing & Reliability

• Write and maintain unit, integration, API, queue-processing, security, and multi-tenant tests.
• Diagnose application, database, queue, cache, real-time, and external-integration failures.
• Implement resilient processing patterns for fault tolerance, recovery, and operational stability.

Production Operations & Support

• Contribute to deployment readiness, operational documentation, observability, and incident follow-up.
• Participate in the weekly Tier 3 on-call rotation, investigating escalated production issues and working with Service Desk, Technical Support, infrastructure teams, external partners, and engineering team members to restore service.
• Support production monitoring, troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and service restoration activities.

Agile Development & Engineering Practices

• Participate in estimation, technical design, code reviews, and continuous improvement.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality software solutions and operational enhancements.
• Contribute to engineering standards, knowledge sharing, and best practices.

Qualifications

Mandatory Qualifications

• Legally eligible to work in Canada
• Fluent in English (speak, read, write)
• Able to work an on-call rotation of 1 week on/7 weeks off

Minimum Qualifications

• 3 years of backend development experience
• Experience developing and supporting backend applications using PHP and Laravel.
• Experience designing and maintaining REST APIs and service-based applications.
• Experience working with relational databases, SQL, and database design concepts.
• Experience implementing secure application-development practices, including authentication, authorization, and validation.
• Experience developing background jobs, queue-based processing, and automated tests.
• Experience with Git, Docker, and modern software development practices, including CI/CD.
• Strong troubleshooting, problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Degree or diploma in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related field
• 5+ years of backend development experience
• Experience with PostgreSQL, Redis, GraphQL, WebSockets, or event-driven architectures.
• Experience developing multi-tenant, distributed, or cloud-native applications.
• Experience with AWS services and containerized infrastructure.
• Experience with Laravel ecosystem technologies, such as Horizon, Nova, Sanctum, Octane, or tenancy frameworks.
• Experience with application monitoring, observability, performance tuning, and operational support.
• Knowledge of secure software development practices, including OWASP principles, role-based access control, and audit logging.
• Experience in financial services, payment processing, fintech, gaming, lottery, or other regulated industries.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools and experience with financial reporting, reconciliation, or transaction-processing systems.

Additional Information

Equal Opportunity Statement

Our organization is committed to employment equity and diversity in the workplace. We actively encourage applications from women, Indigenous Peoples, persons with disabilities, members of visible minorities, and LGBTQ2+ individuals.

We are dedicated to removing barriers and fostering an inclusive workplace that reflects society and we are committed to providing an accessible and inclusive recruitment process in accordance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA).

If you require accommodation at any stage of the hiring process, please contact us at [email protected] so that appropriate arrangements can be made.

AI Use in Recruitment Statement

As part of our commitment to transparency and fairness in hiring, we disclose that artificial intelligence (AI) tools may be used at certain stages of our recruitment process. These tools assist in tasks such as resume screening, candidate matching, and interview scheduling. All AI-assisted decisions are subject to human oversight to ensure fairness, accuracy, and compliance with applicable laws.

We are committed to the responsible, transparent, and accountable use of AI, in alignment with Ontario’s Responsible Use of Artificial Intelligence Directive and the requirements under the Working for Workers Four Act. This includes taking steps to mitigate bias, protect candidate privacy, and ensure that AI does not unfairly influence hiring outcomes.

If you have questions or concerns about how AI is used in our hiring process, please contact us at [email protected] .