Intermediate - Senior Developer

Avanti, a Ricoh company, is seeking to recruit an Intermediate/Senior Developer
Position Summary
Reporting to the Development Manager, as Intermediate/Senior Developer you will work with an agile team of 4-7 software developers to deliver code efficiently and with quality, through collaboration and continuous feedback, using the Rapid Application Development tools, technologies, and best practices.
The successful incumbent will have a minimum 3 years of experience working with a team of software developers supported by a post-secondary education in Computer Science, Engineering or similar education. You will be highly professional with excellent ability to handle a variety of tasks and prioritize workload. Additional essentials of the role include; excellent communication skills, “get it done” attitude, strong attention to detail, highly collaborative with flexibility and willingness to take on new responsibilities.
Purpose / Accountability

• Assist with client escalations to ensure issues are resolved to the delight of customers
• Assesses scope and produces reasonable estimates for development work
• Develops and maintains effective working relationships with subject matter experts, project stakeholders, IT leaders and staff
• Suggest, plan, assist and execute projects to drive continuous improvements
• Follows all development and / or maintenance related processes, methodologies and standards as established
• Enjoys working in an agile team and believes open and honest collaboration drives the best results
• An attitude to improve continuously
• Collaborates to deliver code efficiently with high quality and high performance

Knowledge, Skills & Experience

• Experience developing on Windows using tools such as Git, Eclipse and Jira
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Experience building robust customer facing products and services for a web SaaS application
• Comfortable working in an agile development environment, juggling multiple deliverables with a ‘get it done’ attitude
• Strong sense of ownership and pride in all code delivered
• Experience in JavaScript or ability to quickly learn it based on programming experience in other languages (C#, Java etc.)
• Strong knowledge of SDLC (Software development life cycle)
• Development experience on Rapid Application Development platforms such as Servoy, Coldfusion, FileMaker, QuickBase or similar is a plus
• Experience developing web ready applications in JavaScript or at least one modern programming language such as Java, Python, PHP, CoffeeScript, Scala, Go or similar technologies a plus
• Expert experience in developing scalable applications for SQL or NoSQL databases such as Mongo, Redis, MySQL and SQL Server with a knack for tuning and troubleshooting performance
• Experience with enterprise MIS or ERP systems an asset
• Experience with continuous integration, automated testing and open source technologies

Educational Requirements

• Completion of an undergraduate degree in Computer Science / Engineering / Technology or equivalent experience