About Us
At Cambio Earth, we are changing the way infrastructure operators tackle climate resiliency. As an enterprise software and AI company with deep earth science expertise, built over 20 years as part of BGC Engineering, we work with customers to embed earth science intelligence into their critical infrastructure operations; helping to safeguard communities, essential services, and the environment.
Floods, landslides, seismic and extreme weather events are becoming more frequent, threatening the integrity of critical infrastructure. That’s where we come in – and where you come in. Picture this: roads, railways, mines, pipelines, dams, levees – all protected by real-time situational awareness and insights that turn risks into manageable challenges.
The Cambio Earth team is passionate about making a difference. We love engaging directly with customers. We love building cutting-edge solutions that provide engineers and earth scientists new insights; ensuring the right risk-informed decisions are made at the right time.
The Role
As a Senior Software Developer, you’ll help shape the foundation of our software systems as we transition from a distributed architecture to a streamlined, well-structured monolith with a disciplined relational schema. This work is focused on consolidation and clarity—simplifying complexity so our team can move faster and with confidence.
You’ll design and implement the target architecture, establish schema discipline across the codebase, and lead our migration from SQL Server to PostgreSQL. Along the way, you’ll collaborate with engineers and data specialists to create a backend that’s predictable, well-modeled, observable, and easy to reason about—boring in the best way.
Responsibilities
Define and evolve a modular monolith architecture with clear boundaries and explicit dependencies.
Consolidate parts of the existing distributed system into the new architecture without disrupting functionality, and refactor services, models, and APIs to reduce duplication and complexity.
Bring rigor to database design, including schemas, naming conventions, constraints, indexing, and migrations, and own the overall data model for core product domains.
Establish patterns for safe schema evolution and collaborate with the Data Architect to keep backend and analytics schemas aligned.
Lead the migration from SQL Server to PostgreSQL, including schema redesign, query refactoring, and performance tuning, and implement migration strategies with validation and rollback paths.
Develop backend services and APIs that power web and mobile applications, integrate internal and external data sources, and maintain automated tests around critical business flows.
Contribute to observability through logging, metrics, and diagnostics that make production behavior transparent.
Work closely with other developers, QA, and product teams to deliver incremental, safe changes, participate in code reviews, and document architecture and migration plans for clarity and maintainability.
Required Education, Experience & Competencies
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, or a related discipline or equivalent experience.
7+ years of professional experience building and maintaining backend systems in production.
Strong experience with relational databases: schema design, normalization, indexing, query optimization, and transaction semantics.
Hands-on SQL expertise in at least one of SQL Server or PostgreSQL; ideally you’ve worked with both, or have done a migration between major RDBMSs.
Solid experience with at least one backend language/framework (e.g., TypeScript/Node.js, C#/.NET, Python, or similar) and modern engineering practices (code review, CI/CD, automated testing).
Experience working in a codebase that has real history (legacy behaviors, odd edges) and incrementally improving it instead of starting from scratch.
Comfortable reasoning about and simplifying distributed systems: understanding where you can safely centralize logic and where you actually need distribution.
Good communication skills: you can explain technical trade-offs to peers, document decisions, and collaborate across disciplines.
Nice to Have
Direct experience consolidating microservices / distributed monoliths into monoliths or modular monoliths.
Experience with PostgreSQL-specific features (e.g., JSONB, PostGIS, window functions) and how to use them judiciously.
Familiarity with geospatial or time-series data and related patterns (though domain expertise can also be learned on the job).
Experience in safety-critical or high-reliability domains (infrastructure, utilities, transportation, environmental, etc.).
Company Benefits
Cambio Earth offers our employees the following:
Our ‘One Team’ culture supporting health, wellness, safety and diversity
Mentoring opportunities
Hybrid workplace with our downtown office
Social and wellness activities
Casual and professional work environment
Compensation
The estimated base salary range for this position is $125,000 - $175,000 CAD per annum, however base pay will be commensurate with job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. BGC's compensation package also includes a training allowance and a comprehensive medical and dental plan.
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
Cambio Earth strives to create a workplace where equity, diversity and inclusion are embedded throughout our workplace culture and practices. Join us in our commitment to honour individuality, ensure fairness, and create a welcoming environment for everyone. As an equal opportunity employer, we encourage applications from all candidates, including those experiencing inequity such as racialized individuals, Indigenous People, women, people of diverse sexual orientations, identities and expressions, veterans, individuals with disabilities, people of all faiths, nationalities, marital status, ages, and family status. For assistance or accommodation with your application, please contact us at careers@cambioearth.com.
Disclosures
(1) At Cambio Earth, we use Artificial Intelligence to streamline parts of the recruitment process, however all decisions about candidate selection and advancement continue to be made by our hiring team.
(2) This is a newly created position, reflecting our continued growth and investment in expanding our capabilities.
(3) This posting will remain open until the position has been filled.
(4) Privacy Notice: By submitting an application you are consenting to Cambio Earth Systems Inc. using and storing provided information about you for monitoring purposes relating to your application or future employment.
