Senior Software Engineer

Position Overview

We seek a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer with expertise in server-side technologies and hands-on experience in full-stack development. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in AWS technologies, Java, C#, and Node.js, with a proven track record of delivering high-quality, scalable software solutions. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will play a key role in designing, implementing, and maintaining complex systems that power our platform.

You’ll need a solid foundation in a full range of technologies from server to client, experience designing and describing complex software systems, and a drive to tackle new challenges head-on. This is your chance to work with a team of experienced and talented individuals, and participate in a fun and engaging workplace culture.

This remote position is based in British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy high-quality, secure robust, and scalable server-side applications and services, enhancing existing components as necessary to meet project requirements

• From time to time engage at client-side development

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather and analyze requirements, define technical solutions, and implement features

• Architect and optimize system infrastructure for performance, reliability, and security

• Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code in accordance with best practices and coding standards

• Apply technical expertise to address challenging programming projects in distributed environments and contribute to the design and architecture to ensure secure, scalable, and maintainable software

• Implement high-quality code, incorporating unit testing and integration tests

• Mentor and provide directions to less experienced software engineers regarding company development processes and product architecture, at senior levels

• Additionally, participate in on-call rotations to provide support for production systems

Minimum Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as a software developer

• 3+ years of production experience building apps on large-scale cloud-based Infrastructure AWS using services such as ECS, S3, RDS, ElastiCache, DynamoDB, Lambda, CloudFormation, etc

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent

• Hands-on experience with web technology stacks, JS frameworks (React, Node.js) with TypeScript

• Practical experience building RESTful, Micro-services or front-end experiences

• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases

• Experience building automation and CI/CD pipelines

• Very good verbal, and written communication and collaboration skills to connect with both business and technical teams

• Write test plans and test cases, and to communicate bugs to engineers and other partners

• Experience with Agile software development practices

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience contributing to open-source technologies (Backstage experience or plug-in development is a big plus)

• Experience using Docker to build containerized applications

• Understanding of object-oriented design and at least one modern backend framework (Java, C#, Python)

• Experience with scripting languages such as Bash, Python and PowerShell

• Experience with load testing frameworks such as JMeter, Locust or BlazeMeter