Staff Backend Software Engineer (TypeScript )

Overview

Staff Backend Software Engineer (TypeScript) – TELUS Digital

São Paulo-SP, Brazil or Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil. Hybrid role (office presence required as described below).

Welcome to TELUS Digital — where innovation drives impact at a global scale. As an award-winning digital product consultancy and the digital division of TELUS, one of Canada’s largest telecommunications providers, we design and deliver transformative customer experiences through cutting-edge technology, agile thinking, and a people-first culture.

Location and Flexibility

This is a hybrid role. This model requires the ability to work in a hybrid mode from one of our offices in São Paulo (2 times per week or 8 days per month) or Porto Alegre (3 times per week or 12 days per month). Our WFN culture is designed to foster in-person innovation, collaboration, and connection with team members local and visiting from other global offices.

The Opportunity

We are constantly seeking talented individuals who can contribute to our organization\'s growth and success. Although we currently don\'t have a specific role available, we invite exceptional professionals to participate in our interview process to help us understand skills, aspirations, and how their expertise could align with TELUS Digital in the near future. Our backend technology stack varies by project, so we value flexibility and willingness to learn. Our goal is to build amazing solutions for our clients, and our backend implementations are a crucial part of how we deliver on that promise. We are committed to a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace and value candidates who share this commitment.

Location and role details: Staff Backend Software Engineer (TypeScript) at TELUS Digital.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to and guide cross-organizational engineers in following platform-level design patterns in their projects.
• Orchestrate CI infrastructure for minimal pipeline run times and actionable feedback.
• Help mentor and coach a product team towards shared goals and outcomes.
• Navigate difficult conversations by providing constructive feedback to teams.
• Identify obstacles to ensure quality, improve user experience, and enhance testing.
• Be self-aware of limitations, yet curious to learn new solutions while being receptive to constructive feedback from teammates.
• Guide your team to understand and work through changing priorities by bringing positive energy.
• Communicate and simplify complex problems to foster understanding across multidisciplinary teams.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of web development experience.
• Demonstrated proficiency in TypeScript (Nest.js, Node.js) and TypeORM.
• Comprehensive understanding of back-end code, databases (SQL and NoSQL), security, and APIs.
• Experience implementing web security standards in development.
• Experience with cloud platforms, microservices and serverless architecture (GCP and/or AWS).
• Proficient in the discovery process with stakeholders and formulating detailed plans to solve critical issues.
• Ability to quickly learn new languages, frameworks, platforms, test methodologies, and patterns.
• Excellent ability to present complex technical and product-related information to various partners.
• Proficient in communicating and writing in English.

Bonus Points

• Extensive experience building automated test suites and using granular debugging tools.
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CircleCI, etc., and experience setting up deployment pipelines.
• Familiarity with Vercel and Next.js.
• GCP, Apigee and infrastructure proficiency is a plus.
• Familiarity with Firebase and Firestore.

Equal Opportunity Employer

At TELUS Digital, we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. All aspects of employment, including the decision to hire and promote, are based on applicants\' qualifications, merits, competence and performance without regard to any characteristic related to diversity. We will only use the information you provide to process your application and to produce tracking statistics. Since we do not request personal data deemed sensitive, we ask you to abstain from sharing that information with us. For more information on how we use your information, see our Privacy Policy.

Section Details

• Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
• Employment type: Full-time
• Job function: Engineering and Information Technology
• Industries: Software Development

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