Senior Software Engineer

Position Title - Senior Software Engineer (Rails/Ruby)

Location: Toronto (4 days hybrid)

Contract - Long Term

Responsibilities

• You’ll have a clear view of the product roadmap, the business’ long-term vision, and the opportunity to constructively contribute to both.
• You’ll interact with product management and design and be able to influence what solutions are chosen to meet customer needs.
• You’ll lead the planning, design, development, deployment, monitoring, and maintenance of significant portions of the software that supports the chosen solutions.
• You’ll have the chance to provide and receive feedback from your peers, and coach less experienced engineers both within the team and the broader organization.
• You’ll use modern tooling throughout, whether that’s something currently part of our stack, or something new that you assess needs to be added to reliably deliver the desired user experience.
• You’ll enjoy the flexibility, tempo, and ownership of being part of a startup, and the job security of being employed by one of Canada’s most valuable companies.
• You’ll work with an extremely committed team of colleagues who’re constantly challenging each other, compassionately, and in a transparent, structured way, to get to the next level in our careers.

Required Skills:

• Write high-quality, well-tested code while understanding business needs
• Maintain and ensure high quality software, with accountability for production reliability and usage
• Effectively contribute suggestions and new ideas to improve our platform.
• Designing, coding, unit testing and integrating new features and functionality as defined by the PO and team
• Participating in code reviews, architectural planning, and delivery meetings
• Updating progress daily through the tracking tool (Jira) or Kanban board

Must-Have:

• Good years of experience and a solid understanding of Ruby on Rails, Sidekiq, Redis
• Deep experience with databases and data structures (MySQL or Postgres)
• Experience in Unit/Integration testing
• Experience with ReactJS, Webpack, jQuery/JavaScript/HTML
• Participate in code reviews, architectural planning, and delivery meetings
• You’re a team player, and enjoy collaborating with the product, design, and engineering teams to solve problems
• You learn new concepts quickly (industry, business, and technical)
• You have excellent written and verbal communication skills
• You care deeply about application security and understand the importance of protecting sensitive user data

Nice to Have:

• Post-secondary degree or diploma in computer engineering or equivalent training/experience
• Experience with compliance standards, e.g. ISO 27001 or SOC 2
• Experience building apps in a cloud environment (i.e. Docker/Kubernetes)
• Deploying to cloud Infrastructure: AWS (various services), familiarity with Terraform
• Experience with Rust
• DevOps tools such as Docker, Github, CircleCI
• Monitoring and logging tools like New Relic, Dynatrace, Sumo Logic, Splunk
• Familiarity with Open API specification