Senior Software Engineer - Open Team (Full Stack)

Department: Engineering

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Remote (Canada)

Reporting To: Andrew Greenan

Compensation: $144,000 - $155,000 / year

Description

We are a Software Engineers to join our Engineering team!

Our Spare headquarters is located in Vancouver, BC, but this position is open to remote work options within Canada.

Unfortunately, at this time, we are not able to hire outside of Canada.

As a Software Engineer in the Open team you will...

• Actively participate in the day-to-day operations of the team, contributing ideas for how the team can better meet the needs of customers;
• Frequently work on new projects;
• Help us iterate and improve upon current engineering processes, to improve efficiency and to ensure 99.99% uptime and support the team in doing the same;
• Collaborate with and mentor engineers of all levels;
• Be in a high-impact position, empowered to make decisions that lead us to success while building complex products and features;
• You will be involved in design discussions related to code architecture;

About This Role✨

In this role, you will...

• Provide input for the ongoing improvement of engineering practices and procedures;
• Work as a full stack engineer (usually at around 70% BE and 30% FE);
• Expand the capability of Engage (especially when it comes to paratransit eligibility and its tools);
• Demonstrate an unrelenting focus on quality, speed, and overall excellence;
• Expand the capability of Open Fleets (which involves integrations with partners' APIs);
• Deliver high-quality code. Design, code, test, document, and release new features using a combination of tools and languages (like Javascript/Typescript, Docker, Kubernetes and GCP, for example);
• Be part of on-call SRE team, after fully ramping up to the rest of this roles responsibilities;
• Uplift the team capacity (collaborating with engineers of all levels, mentoring junior engineers, improving code base);
• Participate in calls and collaborate with partners, customers and integrators;
• Participate in team agile rituals;

About You ✨

• You have worked in a company that is tech-focused (better yet if you got to grow in a company like that);
• You understand other business and strategic aspects that are involved in the projects, can prioritize and can estimate the number of hours invested;
• You have experience as a full stack software engineer, using any programming language;
• You have worked closely with customers and external developers to enable them to build new apps and extend the functionality;
• You had ownership over complex projects in the past, participated in architectural conversations, proposed multiple solutions to a problem and understands their pros and cons;

It will be considered a plus (nice-to-have):

• Experience with Javascript/Typescript;
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes and/or GCP;
• Experience with 3rd party API integrations;
• Experience with SaaS platforms;

Don't meet every single requirement?

Studies have shown that women and people of colour are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification in the job posting.

At Spare, we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment so we strongly encourage you to apply even if you don't believe you meet every single qualification outlined. We also do our best to respond to all applications we receive.

About The Open Team ✨

The Open Team works on making Spare's products more extensible and flexible by maintaining our Open API and Apps Marketplace. The team maintains apps built internally by Spare and also works closely with customers and external developers to enable them to build new apps and extend the functionality provided by Spare in novel ways.