Senior Data Developer

Employment Type Permanent

Job Description Senior Data Developer- Montreal only Our data platform powers analytics and AI products for over 200 global travel partners and we need a technical leader to build pipelines that can handle this scale. This is your chance to own complex projects end to end and define how we build our data infrastructure. What You’ll Be Doing You will design and deploy scalable data pipelines and real-time streaming architectures that directly support our customer-facing applications and machine learning models. You will act as a technical leader, collaborating with architects to translate vision into concrete solutions while mentoring intermediate engineers to raise the team’s bar. AI is built into how we produce software, so you will leverage AI-assisted development tools and build intelligent systems to automate monitoring and data quality. You will take full ownership of optimizing our cloud infrastructure to ensure both high performance and cost efficiency.

The Stack Python

• SQL
• Java
• Scala
• Snowflake
• Airflow
• Dagster
• Kafka
• Kinesis
• AWS (S3, Glue, Lambda)
• Terraform
• Docker
• Kubernetes

What You Bring

• You have a strong track record of delivering large-scale data solutions and deeply understand complex SQL optimization and NoSQL databases.
• You know how to build modern data architectures and streaming setups using tools like Snowflake, Kafka, and orchestration platforms to ensure rock-solid reliability.
• You have structurally changed how your team works around AI. You can point to automated workflows, agentic systems, and AI-assisted tools you built that other developers now depend on daily to move faster.
• You treat infrastructure as code and have proven experience implementing robust data quality frameworks, observability, and automated monitoring.
• You are a natural leader who enjoys mentoring peers, driving code reviews, and influencing technical architecture decisions without needing someone to hold your hand.

Why Plusgrade Travel is about the moments that make a journey feel personal. At Plusgrade, we build the technology that makes those moments possible, from upgrade offers and loyalty experiences to revenue tools used by 575+ airline, hospitality, cruise, rail, and financial services partners worldwide.

The work is global, complex, and rewarding. You will solve meaningful problems, take ownership from idea to outcome, and work alongside people who are smart, curious, and committed to doing great work.

We also give our teams access to AI tools and the encouragement to use them thoughtfully, to move faster, explore ideas, and build better ways of working.

We trust our teams to do their best work. That means autonomy, flexibility, and room to grow.

Come help us shape the future of travel.

What You’ll Love About Us 🏦 RRSP Matching

• 🏥 Comprehensive Health Plans
• 📅 Flexible Paid Time Off
• ✈️ Travel Experience Perk
• 🧘 Annual Wellness Perk
• 🚆 Commuter Perk
• 🌅 Tenure-Based Work From Anywhere Program
• 🍼 Parental Leave Top Up
• 🌍 Adventure Pass
• 🎓 Learning Allowance

Our Process We believe every candidate deserves a fair, transparent experience, so regardless of outcome, everyone gets feedback.

Our process: Recruiter call → Hiring Manager interview → Final interview.

Plusgrade is an equal-opportunity employer committed to accessible recruitment. We welcome applications from all qualified individuals regardless of gender identity or expression, race, ethnic origin, creed, place of origin, age, sex, marital status, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, or any other category protected by law. Accommodation is available upon request. We may use AI-assisted tools to help screen and assess applicants for this role. This posting is for an existing vacancy.