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Senior Back-end Developer

Flinks is a financial data aggregator and open banking platform that enables businesses to connect to their customers' financial accounts, enrich data, and deliver innovative digital financial products and services.

Flinks

Employee count: 51-200

Canada only

About Flinks 🚀

Flinks drives and empowers financial innovation by pushing the limits of what's possible

As one of the trailblazers and advocates for open finance in Canada, Flinks has rapidly grown from its founding in 2016 to become a leader in financial data aggregation, data enrichment, and open banking.

Trusted by millions of individuals accessing financial services at world-class companies and serving innovators in lending, fintech, digital banking, asset management and insurance, Flinks is continually setting new benchmarks for the future of financial innovation. We’re dedicated to continuing to provide our clients with the tools they need to stay ahead of the competition and drive innovation forward. That’s where you come in.

About the Team 💻

As a Senior C#/.NET Developer, you’ll be working on the core systems that power Flinks’ data infrastructure. You’ll have the chance to dive into complex problems, own solutions, and drive the development of scalable and secure applications. You’ll have a direct impact on the way we innovate and support the fintech industry.

What You’ll Do 🔥

  • Lead the development of key applications, from architecture through to deployment, making sure everything runs smoothly and performs well.
  • Design and build scalable, reliable, and secure systems—whether you’re working on backend services or contributing across the full stack.
  • Own the technical solutions to complex problems, ensuring we deliver on time while pushing innovation.
  • Develop cloud-native solutions using GCP, leveraging cloud infrastructure to optimize performance and security.
  • Collaborate with product, design, and engineering teams to ensure backend services integrate smoothly with frontend interfaces (for full-stack).
  • Mentor junior developers, contribute to technical discussions, and help foster a collaborative, growth-driven environment.
  • Continuously look for ways to improve performance, solve bottlenecks, and fine-tune our systems and processes.

Who You Are 💪

  • 7+ years of experience as a software developer
  • Proficient in C# and the .NET framework, with solid experience in backend architecture and/or full-stack application development.
  • Hands-on experience with microservices and high scale systems
  • Experience designing and building scalable systems with GCP and containers
  • Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, or similar containerization technologies.
  • Experienced in test driven development and building high quality software
  • Excellent understanding of web security and diverse authentication mechanisms like OAuth
  • A natural problem-solver who’s proactive and loves finding and fixing complex issues.
  • A proven track record of designing scalable, secure systems and ensuring top-notch performance.
  • Strong communication skills—you’ll be leading discussions and mentoring team members.
  • Proven ability to build and maintain web scrapers, handling challenges like dynamic content, CAPTCHAs, and bot protection measures.

Nice to haves:

  • Hands-on experience writing performant, concurrent applications in Go, ideally for data extraction, backend services, or automation tasks.
  • Experience with frontend frameworks like Angular

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Senior

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Canada +/- 0 hours

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Flinks is a financial data aggregator and open banking platform headquartered in Montreal, Canada. Founded in 2016 by Yves-Gabriel Leboeuf, Frédérick Lavoie, and Julien Cousineau, the company aims to empower businesses with the tools and data infrastructure needed to create innovative financial experiences. Flinks enables businesses to securely connect to their customers' financial accounts, enrich this data, and utilize it to deliver smarter, more personalized digital products and services. The platform supports connections to a vast network of financial institutions across Canada and the United States, encompassing retail and business banking, as well as wealth management.

Flinks plays a crucial role in the evolving landscape of open finance, advocating for a system where individuals and businesses have full control over their financial data, thereby unlocking access to a wider range of services and fostering innovation. The company's technology allows for the validation of account ownership, verification of account balances, and access to transaction histories, which are essential for various financial applications such as lending, fintech solutions, digital banking, asset management, and insurance. By facilitating secure, consent-driven data sharing, Flinks helps businesses streamline processes like customer onboarding and account funding, while also mitigating risks associated with fraud and insufficient funds. In August 2021, National Bank of Canada acquired a majority stake in Flinks, a move that provided significant capital to accelerate the company's expansion into the United States and enhance its reach across North America. Flinks serves a diverse clientele, from startups to established financial institutions, and is recognized as a leader in financial data portability and analytics.

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