Full Stack Developer (React + Javascript + NodeJS)

Toronto, ON - Hybrid (4 Days WFO)

6-12 months

• You’ll have visibility into and influence over all parts of the technology stack and enjoy a high degree of autonomy in your work.
• You’ll have a clear view of the product roadmap, the business’s long-term vision, and the opportunity to contribute to how we can achieve both of them.
• You’ll work with an extremely committed team of colleagues who are constantly challenging each other.
• You’ll contribute to planning, designing, developing, deploying, monitoring, and maintaining significant portions of the software that support our users, including the system infrastructure.
• You’ll have the chance to provide and receive feedback from your peers, get coaching from more experienced engineers, and provide coaching to other developers 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. A snapshot of what’s currently in use:
  • Web client: React, Styled Components
  • CI/CD: Github Actions
  • Testing frameworks: Jest, React Testing Library, Cypress

About you

• You have experience building, monitoring and maintaining highly available, scalable, and resilient software.
• You’re curious and naturally invest energy into learning new technologies, techniques, and interpersonal skills that help improve your productivity and happiness and those around you.
• You’ll take responsibility for finding opportunities to improve our technology in any feature you work on iteratively, and you'll make paying down technical debt a habit.
• You’re a creative problem solver who can develop a plan, take ownership of tasks, and are outcome focused.
• You’ll work to empathize with the software’s users and understand their challenges, whether they are fellow developers, immediate team members, or entrepreneurs who rely on us to support their businesses.
• You’re passionate about mentoring and coaching other engineers and have a practiced ability to spot when help is needed and tactfully provide guidance to get things unstuck.
• You behave proactively and drive the solution when facing unforeseen challenges and complexity in your projects to meet the overall goals.
• You understand web/application security and the importance of data privacy.
• You have excellent spoken and written communication, time management, and project management abilities.
• You are comfortable asking questions and speaking up to help us continuously improve our practices and processes.

What do you need to succeed?

• Experience leading development teams, mentoring junior developers, and working with non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience with source control (e.g. "Git + GitHub") and modern software delivery techniques and tools, including pull requests.
• Experience with DevOps best practices and some experience in setting up and configuring cloud computing infrastructure.
• Experience building production systems and understanding the deployment, monitoring, and security best practices required to run production software.
• Experience in developing for Cloud Agnostic Architecture

Nice to have

• Experience working with various development workflows and methodologies, with an understanding of the benefits and drawbacks of different ways of working
• Post-secondary degree or diploma in a computer or software design related program.
• Experience working with AWS