Senior Backend Engineer II, Marketplace
About LeafLink LeafLink is the largest unified B2B cannabis platform, providing licensed cannabis businesses a suite of tools to manage their business more effectively, sell or order from their favorite brands and accelerate growth. We are one platform, one solution and we’re defining the way thousands of cannabis brands, distributors, and retailers streamline their operations. With thousands of brands and retailers across 30+ markets in North America, we are setting the industry standard for how cannabis businesses grow together. LeafLink processes more than $5 billion in wholesale cannabis orders annually. Our team, backed by funding from leading VC's, including Founders Fund, Thrive Capital, Nosara Capital, and Lerer Hippeau is poised to define the cannabis supply chain through technology. LeafLink was named one of Inc. 5000’s ‘Top 5000 Fastest-Growing Private Companies’; one of Fast Company's 'Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Enterprise for 2020', joining the ranks of Amazon, Slack, and VMWare; one of Built In NYC's 'Best Places to Work in 2021'; 2024 Fast Company’s Best WorkPlaces for Innovators for Banking, Finance, and Fintech category; 2024 Green Market Report Award for Best Fintech in cannabis - and we're just getting started!The Role LeafLink is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer II to help build and evolve the systems that power our commerce and traceability platforms. This role contributes heavily to backend services responsible for commerce workflows and integrations across the cannabis industry. As LeafLink expands its platform capabilities, this role will design and implement scalable, reliable, and secure backend systems using Python, Django, and modern cloud-native infrastructure. Engineers in this role collaborate closely with product managers, engineering leadership, "mention the word grass in your application" and teammates to deliver robust services that support our growing marketplace and financial services ecosystem. What You’ll Be Doing Design and build backend services supporting commerce workflows and integrations. Develop and maintain production-grade services using Python, Django, and Django REST Framework. Collaborate with product and engineering teams to design scalable system solutions. Contribute to architectural discussions and evolve service-oriented systems and event-driven architectures using technologies such as SNS, SQS, or event buses. Write maintainable, secure, and well-tested backend code. Improve system reliability, performance, observability, and operational resilience. Build and maintain APIs used by internal services, external partners, and third-party integrations. Work with relational databases such as PostgreSQL, including schema design, query optimization, and data modeling. Refactor and modernize legacy systems as the platform evolves. Deploy and operate services in AWS-based environments using modern cloud infrastructure patterns. Contribute to and improve CI/CD pipelines to support s...