Software Engineer, Platform And Tools

Mogo (TSX: MOGO; NASDAQ: MOGO) — a financial technology company — is a mobile first digital challenger to the banks in Canada, empowering consumers with simple solutions to help them manage and control their finances. Users can sign up for a free MogoAccount in only three minutes and get access to six products including free credit score monitoring, identity fraud protection, digital spending account with Platinum Prepaid Visa® Card, digital mortgage experience, the MogoCrypto account, the first product within MogoWealth, which enables the buying and selling of bitcoin, and access to smart consumer credit products through MogoMoney. The platform has been engineered to deliver a best-in-class digital experience, with best-in-class financial products all through one account. With more than 700,000 members and a marketing partnership with Canada's largest news media company, Mogo continues to execute on its vision of becoming the go-to financial app for the next generation of Canadians. To learn more, please visit mogo.ca or download the mobile app (iOS or Android).

Mogo is looking for a passionate and dedicated software developer with a keen interest in production infrastructure to join our growing team. The ideal candidate for this position knows how to best support other developers and product owners to deliver world class financial products.

What you’ll do:

• Participate in on-call rotations to support delivery of our services which are available to customers 24/7 and year ‘round.
• Coach, guide and mentor other developers from many teams on best practices for running their applications in production.
• Both building and running highly available infrastructure which supports our rapidly growing products.
• Be an active member of our engineering teams in supporting the successful delivery of new services, including establishing production requirements, creating build pipelines and implementing the aforementioned efforts in code.

You will have:

• Used Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery to automate and accelerate the development process.
• Helped others including developers and product owners understand the lifecycle of distributed systems including failure modes, edge cases in a cloud environment and antifragile concepts
• Been obsessed about customers and owned incident response from the pager going off through to the post mortem.
• Have scaled containers from your laptop all the way to production with something like Mesos or Kubernetes.
• Worked with Amazon Web Services’ stack of services in a production environment.
• The ability to write production-ready code in a modern language such as Ruby, Go and Python while also knowing your way around the Linux shell.

Nice to have technical skills:

• Experience building applications in Ruby on Rails or Go.
• Developing tools such as chatbots, distributed tracing or deployment helpers
• Spent time developing actionable service levels and tracking these with tools such as DataDog, New Relic, ELK Stack or Honeycomb.
• Supporting highly evented applications with RabbitMQ, Kafka or Redis
• Automating cloud environments to be highly available in multiple regions using tools such as Ansible, Terraform, Packer.
• Scaled out database clusters using various techniques including replica sets and sharding

Impress us with:

• How you have helped developed a strong relationship with developers from different disciplines
• Stories about how you have learned from failure using strong incident management principles
• Ways you have enabled teams to self serve when creating new services
• Experience helping development teams to embrace new tools and ways of working

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