Our client is growing rapidly, and they’re searching for a Senior Software Developer for their user facing product team!

Our client is a Toronto-based SaaS company that has built game-changing technology to help sales teams accelerate revenue growth. They’re in the business of gathering intelligence about industries and delivering it to the right people within those industries through innovative software interfaces. Their vision is to be the world's most useful and trusted source of information for professionals seeking to understand what's happening in their industry. Their mission: To deliver industry awareness to an ever-increasing number of people, in whatever way helps them to make the most informed decisions, take the most immediate action and be the most awesome at their unique jobs.

 

What you’ll be responsible for

• Implementation of features, bug resolution, and maintenance of our applications.
• Ownership of projects, from solutioning to deployment.
• Sharing leadership of technical, architecture and design decisions.
• Supporting the team by helping to improve software development processes and techniques.
• Helping your peers, and especially less experienced developers, become better, more rounded software craftspeople

 

About you

• You love to learn
• You love to build things
• You strike a balance between independent work and collaboration
• You prioritize good communication
• You write clear, legible, maintainable, and testable code
• Company culture is a priority for you
• You keep the software you work on as simple and as elegant as possible, while being mindful of diminishing returns
• You don’t go chasing the latest shiny flashy fashionable stuff for its own sake
• You have a degree in Computer Science or have equivalent experience

Core Skills and Experience

• 4+ years of software development experience
  • 2+ years of experience in implementing web application backend services (Ruby On rails, Resque, Postgres/MySql, MongoDB)
  • 2+ years of experience in FrontEnd (React, Javascript, Angular, Vue etc)
• Experience in startups or commercial development teams
  • Leading software projects
  • Software design and architecture
  • Agile
• Experience with NoSQL/SQL databases, design, schema, and building queries
• Solid experience with Object Oriented architecture and design
• Experience with testing frameworks
• Experience working closely with a team and mentoring junior developers

Preference will be given to candidates with the following

• Strong Proficiency in Ruby on Rails, Django or similar web frameworks
• Strong Proficiency in testing frameworks (RSpec, capybara or similar)
• Proficiency with React, Angular or similar frameworks
• Experience building applications from ground up
• Experience working with MongoDB and PostgreSQL

 

Reasons You Might Want to Apply

• You’ll work with a team who cares about you, not just your work
• You’ll work with a smaller team, and have a lot say in how the application is built
• Opportunity to work with smart and motivated group of developers
• Opportunity learn how to scale a code base
• Exposure to interesting problems
• Leadership opportunities as the team grows

 

Perks

• Be a part of a tightly-knit team with a thriving hybrid culture
• Three weeks paid vacation + paid statutory holidays
• Upgrade your home office setup with a remote or hybrid stipend
• Join them for their annual all-company retreat (past destinations include Iceland, Costa Rica, Portugal and Dominican Republic)
• Earn additional paid vacation days with continued learning ($1000 annual stipend for courses and classes)
• Take part in their Employee Giving Program (you choose the causes and the company provides the funds)
• Basic and extended health and dental benefits + paid and topped-up maternal and parental leave for full-time employees

Location: If the successful candidate is based in the Greater Toronto Area, he/she/they can choose to participate in the hybrid experience, by working from home 2 days/week, while enjoying the benefits of in-person interactions at the Toronto office 3 days/week. If the successful candidate is based elsewhere in Canada, he/she/they will work remotely 100% of the time.