Senior Back-end Developer (Canada)

About the role

The Senior Back-End Developer will report directly to the VP of Technology and work closely with the development team. In this role, you will take a lead in designing and implementing user-facing features, optimizing application performance, and ensuring a seamless and accessible user experience across platforms.

What you'll do

• Ensure best practices in software development.
• Optimize application for maximum speed and scalability.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across the organization to discuss the needs, design, and
• functionality of a website or interface
• Stay abreast of industry trends and emerging technologies, advocating for their adoption where beneficial to the project and company.
• Implement testing, and write unit tests, e2e tests using test framework using libraries such as react-testing library or jest to ensure individual components of functions act as expected.
• Discuss improvements and processes with the team lead.
• Collaborate with team to translate design mockups into interactive web applications.
• Design and develop server-side applications and APIs.
• Develop and maintain back-end as well front-end components of our web applications
• Identify and address performance bottlenecks such as render-blocking resources, large asset sizes, inefficient code, etc.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of professional development experience in backend (and/or full-stack), demonstrating a deep understanding of any of the following: Golang, Node.js, JavaScript, or TypeScript. Knowledge of functional programming is a strong plus
• Near familiarity with a variety of technologies including GraphQL, Web sockets, Kubernetes, Kafka, ElasticSearch, Kibana, DynamoDB, and PostgreSQL
• Solid understanding of distributed systems architecture, encompassing consensus, convergence, load balancing, data consistency, and performance/efficiency constructs
• Ability to design and implement APIs with a focus on performance, scalability, and maintainability
• Proficiency in identifying and resolving performance and scalability issues, particularly in systems serving millions of users with high availability
• Outstanding documentation and written communication skills, capable of translating complex technical concepts into understandable, actionable insights
• Effective communication and collaboration skills, with an understanding of when to lead and when to step back
• Ability to provide constructive feedback on code reviews and actively participate in activities such as RFC discussions, sprint planning, etc
• Kindness, a high EQ, and adeptness at listening, communicating with, and collaborating with other team members
• High adaptability and a strong desire for continuous learning and growth
• A passion for solving complex problems