Full Stack Developer, Digital Platform And Innovation

Are you looking for more than a job? At World Vision Canada we offer challenging careers that change the lives of children all over the world and it will change yours too. Come and be part of a team of 400 Canadians with a vision for the world: Life in all its fullness for every child.
You will experience Christian faith in action helping to make real and lasting change in the lives of the world’s most vulnerable children. Join the World Vision Canada team and be part of a powerful and effective force for good:
For Children. For Change. For Life.
Position: Full Stack Developer, Digital Platform and Innovation
Reports to: Head of Digital Platform Head of Impact Value & Market-Creating Innovation
Position Term: Full Time Term - 12 Months
Primary Location: Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
Workplace Type: Remote (Within Canada)
Job Purpose:
The New Digital Platform (NDP) and Market-Creating Innovation (MCI) teams are at the centre of WVC’s innovation hub. We are focused on building a digitally enabled organization and exploring new engagement and market opportunities to help everyone be a philanthropist. We work in agile with a lean startup approach and design thinking, asking our team of developers, designers, advisors, and experts to think beyond and find effective and efficient technology-infused solutions that put people at the centre of everything that we deliver. Our work will be instrumental in laying the foundation to build a new digital ecosystem for WVC.
As an Application Developer, your primary responsibility is to develop and maintain digital solutions.
You will work closely with the product owner, technical architect, and product designer to understand the user experience and design requirements, and translate them into functional code that meets the organization's goals, strategic priorities, and user needs. Your role is critical in ensuring that the platform is developed according to best practices, is scalable, and meets the performance and security standards required for a global user base.
You will be responsible for writing clean, efficient, and maintainable code, and for conducting code reviews and testing to ensure that the platform is stable, reliable, and free of defects. You will also be responsible for integrating with third-party APIs, services, and tools as needed, and for developing and maintaining documentation for your code and technical processes.
As a key member of the incubator team, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify and prioritize new features, improvements, and technical requirements, and to ensure that the platform is launched successfully, meeting the needs of its users and achieving its business goals. Your ability to think creatively, communicate effectively, and collaborate with cross-functional teams will be essential to the success of the platform and the incubator team.
Duties and Responsibilities:

• Continuously learn and stay up-to-date with new technologies and programming languages.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, develop, and test digital solutions.
• Build custom software solutions using web technologies and collaborate with scrum teams to implement new features and strategically plan for future products.
• Design and deliver full-stack digital solutions and to change and maintain existing programs, providing a finished, professional software product.
• Troubleshoot and debug applications to identify and fix issues.
• Working on significant issues and recommending digital solutions to challenges requiring complex technical trade-offs.
• Provide technical support to end-users as needed.
• Ensure the security and integrity of data and software systems.
• Work independently with minimal guidance to create digital solutions that are based on defined hypotheses.
• Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code and maintain technical documentation.
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to the development of coding standards.
• Manage the end-to-end lifecycle for the production of software and applications, including activities like requirements analysis; writing, building, and deploying software using software design principles.

Qualifications:

• Minimum 2 years of full stack web development experience.
• Familiarity with database management systems (such as MySQL).
• Excellent data analysis skills and a team player.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
• Familiarity in API design and development and delivering RESTful Services.
• Knowledge of software development principles and methodologies (such as Agile or Scrum).
• Experience working in an Agile environment.
• Demonstrated analytical, communication, and organizational skills.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field.
• Experience developing applications in one or more programming languages (such as PHP, Python, or JavaScript).
• Experience with version control systems (such as Git).
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills

Why Consider Us?

• We offer a family-friendly, caring, and flexible work environment.
• You get extra time off for restoration. We close for an additional day on long weekends, 6 times a year. You can get up to six weeks’ vacation, plus paid sick days, personal days & wellness days.
• We embody an agile mindset here.
• World Vision Canada has consistently been awarded Canada’s and the GTA’s top employers. Other awards granted are for financial transparency, marketing, customer service and for the work we do in the field.
• We offer competitive pay and benefits. Our comprehensive health benefits start at day 1 which includes a Health Spending Account. We match pension contributions up to 6% and give up a top-up for pregnancy & parental leaves up to 25%.
• We are Canada’s largest development, relief and advocacy non-profit.

We bring life-saving support in times of disaster. We help poor communities to take charge of their futures. We provide small loans and training that boost family livelihoods. We work with policy makers to change the way the world is run. Our Christian faith teaches us that every child, regardless of gender, faith or race, is a precious gift to the entire world - and that their wellbeing concerns us all. We shall never rest while children suffer in situations that can be changed.
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Our Core Values: We are committed to the Poor. We are Christian. We are Stewards. We value People. We are Partners. We are Responsive.
Qualified candidates must be able to demonstrate a commitment to the core values and mission of the World Vision partnership.
World Vision Canada takes our Safeguarding responsibilities seriously and we provide an environment that is safe for our child and adult beneficiaries. We have strong recruitment procedures to make sure the safest and most suitable people work with the children in our programs. We provide our staff and volunteers with ongoing supervision, support and training in their work with child and adult beneficiaries.
World Vision Canada welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.
Thank you for your interest; however only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted.
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