Software Developer (Level 3) - Operations (Toronto, On)

***REMOTE OPPORTUNITY (WFH)***

SSENSE is looking for a Software Developer to join our rapidly growing technology team. The level 3 Software Developer will join a squad and deepen his knowledge of software development. He/She will break down with minimal guidance large tasks into smaller, manageable steps to deliver complex tasks required for well-defined features of the Product roadmap. The ideal candidate will contribute to knowledge dissemination within the organization and participate in the recruiting and onboarding of new employees.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Participate in HR recruiting events, helping to identify and recruit top developers

• Knowledge sharing and coaching
  

  • Join SSENSE University sessions to ramp up on various technologies and host at least two sessions per year
  • Lead the onboarding of new developers
• Complete complex development tasks with minimal guidance
• Join SSENSE University sessions to ramp up on various technologies and host at least two sessions per year
• Lead the onboarding of new developers
• Start to review Pull Requests for simple development

• Recruiting
  

  • Participate in HR recruiting events, helping to identify and recruit top developers
    
    

• Write testable, efficient, and reusable code suitable for continuous integration and deployment, that respect best practices and SSENSE development standards
• Understand the high-level product roadmap for the squad and immediate features to be developed, contributing to high-level estimation and layout of the development sequences

• Architecture
  

  • Contribute actively to the design of the solution, challenging other members on technical decisions.
  • Help more junior developers understand the technical design so they can write documentation for the rest of the team
• Be accountable for code quality with the assistance of a QA Analyst to conduct adequate testing
• Review and contribute to technical documentation

• Ownership and accountability
  

  • Be accountable for code quality with the assistance of a QA Analyst to conduct adequate testing
  • Review and contribute to technical documentation

• Product delivery
  

  • Understand the high-level product roadmap for the squad and immediate features to be developed, contributing to high-level estimation and layout of the development sequences
  • Complete complex development tasks with minimal guidance
  • Constantly and actively contribute to pushing code to production with the objective of becoming the main contributor
  • Start to review Pull Requests for simple development
  • Write testable, efficient, and reusable code suitable for continuous integration and deployment, that respect best practices and SSENSE development standards
  • Review business flow diagrams and technical documentation (UML, BPMN, Sequence diagrams)
• Review business flow diagrams and technical documentation (UML, BPMN, Sequence diagrams)
• Constantly and actively contribute to pushing code to production with the objective of becoming the main contributor
• Help more junior developers understand the technical design so they can write documentation for the rest of the team
• Contribute actively to the design of the solution, challenging other members on technical decisions.

REQUIREMENTS

• Ability to identify caching opportunities and implement them with guidance
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field
• Experience in serverless architecture is a plus
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English, and French an asset
• A minimum of 3 years of Object Oriented Programming (OOP) experience
• Familiar with various database systems and able to write complex queries independently
• Proficiency in Git
• Knowledge of container concepts and ability to follow instructions to use them with minimal guidance
• Knowledge of cloud concepts and ability to follow instructions to use them with minimal guidance
• Knowledge of the microservice concepts and ability to define the architecture for a microservice with minimal guidance to develop a complex microservice
• Experience in supply chain or retail domain is a plus
• Domain experience in Warehouse management systems, Order management systems, and/or Inventory management systems is a plus

SKILLS

• Fast learner and detail-oriented
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment and master frequently changing Web technologies and techniques
• Solution-oriented mindset and can-do attitude to overcome challenges
• Team player with a high sense of accountability and ownership

WORLD CLASS TECHNOLOGY

Technology is at the core of everything we do at SSENSE. Driven by an engineering mindset and a problem-solving attitude, we blend fashion with technology to deliver an unparalleled experience to our customers as we build seamless, custom solutions to deliver the SSENSE offering.

WORLD CLASS TEAM

The SSENSE tech team is responsible for an international headless commerce platform. Working in an agile environment, our squads are made up of experienced innovators in Product Management, QA, Design, DevOps, Software Development, Machine Learning, Data Engineering, and Security. Headquartered in Montreal, our technology organization has been growing at a rate of 2X year-over-year and is doubling once again in 2021 as we expand across Canada, US, and Europe.

WORLD CLASS PLATFORM

The SSENSE platform runs on Amazon Web Services making use of serverless microservices across web, mobile and app. Our event-source architecture already achieves over 10,000 requests / second and growing at an unmatched pace, currently unseen across the industry. Our data-driven culture of innovation empowers every product team across the tech organization to explore building, testing and learning with the latest in Machine Learning techniques. Our automated continuous improvement DevOps model (making use of both blue / green and canary deployments) results in an average of 50 production releases every day.

Read more about us on our SSENSETech Blog.