Backend Developer Jobs

Title: Backend Developer

Location: Brampton, ON (Need to visit 3 days onsite)

What you will do:

· Collaborate with internal partners and product owners to discuss their product needs and propose solutions

· Writing reliable and robust code.

· Experience in creating, maintaining and improving RESTful APIs.

· Creating web services that respond in low numbers of milliseconds.

· Working closely with our infrastructure team to solve DevOps problems.

· Working closely with the back-end development team and Solutions Architect to produce software solutions.

· Designing relational and non-relational databases, working around issues in systems such as MySQL and Cassandra.

· Engage in Sprint Planning working sessions, where all members of the team meet to discuss any existing issues, how to technically approach new upcoming work and do task time/effort estimation

· Attend and contribute to daily morning SCRUM stand-up meetings where each team member is expected to informally verbalize the current state of tasks being worked on

· Use the internal JIRA bug tracking system and messaging system to detail a proposed technical solution to a business ask, and discuss tasks / bugs with other team members

· Demonstrate the details of your work (at a high-level) to your team members and outside project stakeholders in regular Sprint Demo sessions

· Take part in regular peer code reviews with fellow development team members

· Cultivate interactive relationships with product owners, marketing and analytics teams to continually improve understanding of overall business objectives, identify opportunities and understand how digital goals can be maximized

· Monitor overall site stability and performance goals, identifying areas of concern to be examined or escalated upon as needed

What you will bring:

· Programming experience in Ruby and/or Go

· Experience writing code that uses SQL and relational databases, Cassandra and non-relational databases

· Understanding and ability to communicate the relationship of application architecture, database design and infrastructure in regard to performance and scalability.

· Experience in the managing, versioning and distributing APIs for high consumption.

· Experience working with application caching systems (Redis) and CDNs (Akamai, CloudFront)

· Experience in APM monitoring applications, such as New Relic, Datadog or Dynatrace.

· Experience with cloud infrastructure vendors such as AWS, Azure or Google Cloud

· Experience with subscription payment platforms such as Zuora, Stripe, Paddle

· Have a working knowledge of Git (and ideally of GitHub) or other versioning software.

· Excellent understanding of business objectives for digital media

· Ability to confidently self-direct and work on a team with minimal supervision

· Proficient in code reviews and in providing constructive feedback to the team

· Highly organized, self-motivated, adept at managing change and priorities with an ability to work under tight deadlines.

If interested, you can apply or send resume at [email protected]