Senior Software Engineer - Full Stack

Team: Engineering/Prod Dev

Location: Toronto

Commitment: Full-Time

Workplace Type: hybrid

What you'll do:

• 6+ years of software development experience, preferably with Project Lead experience.
• Takes personal responsibility for quality and maintainability of the product and actively identifies areas for improvement
• Identifies problems/risks of own work and others.
• Understanding of OWASP 
• Possesses empathy with the user of the software they are producing and uses that empathy to guide decision-making
• Identifies viable alternative solutions and presents them
• SDLC processes are followed, including adopting agile-based processes/meetings, peer code-reviews, and technical preparations required for scheduled releases.
• Partners with product and analytics and drive requirements that take into account all parties' needs
• On-boards and mentors less experienced team members
• Develops sophisticated software with minimum supervision
• Makes complex contributions to technical documentation/knowledge base and team/engineering presentations
• Strong ability to mentor and guide junior developers.
• May have role in supervising others or leading small to moderate projects
• Fixes complex bugs and demonstrates advanced debugging skills
• Produces quality API documentation and ensures practices are followed
• Contributes to system design sessions in their area of specialty
• Expanded Code review responsibilities
• Performs advanced refactoring
• Gives constructive feedback to team members
• Learn industry jargon and business concepts to better understand the challenges our technology is designed to solve.
• Raises roadblocks and updates estimations as needed
• Ability to communicate complicated concepts to junior staff.

What we're looking for:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent years’ experience
• Minimum of 6 years’ professional experience in Java development
• Hands-on experience with React and JavaScript
• Experience working in OS X and Linux environments, Spring, AWS, Microservices, SQL, NoSQL, GIT. Experience working in a scrum and DevOps environment.
• Good understanding of agile application development lifecycle. 
• Experience Designing and building JSON or REST services, experience working with 3rd party APIs, AWS APIs, Docker or other containers, large-scale or distributed web applications, Test Driven Development and functional testing.
• Extensive understanding of various design patterns and OOP paradigm
• Extensive experience in RESTful and security of API design
• Intermediate level in at least 1 OOP language
• Intermediate knowledge in react native and react
• Intermediate knowledge in Javascript 
• Intermediate knowledge in nodejs 
• Extensive knowledge how NPM package & webpack lifecycle works
• Experience in IOS/Android development