Senior Software Engineer

Navigator Powered by LifeRaft; Halifax; Hybrid; CAD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in threat intelligence is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to enhance their platform. The role involves collaborating with engineering teams to develop features across data acquisition and visualization. Candidates should have expertise in backend and frontend technologies, with a focus on agile development and customer satisfaction.

Benefits

Investment in personal and professional growth

Remote work / office space with flexible hours

Flexible time off with no cap

750 Yearly Lifestyle Subsidy

Diversity & Inclusion Committee

Work-life balance

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of experience with backend/API development.
• Experience with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQL schema design.
• Experience with React for front-end development.

Responsibilities

• Architect, build, and maintain the threat intelligence platform.
• Participate in agile practices like standups and sprint reviews.
• Continuously analyze and optimize the platform for customer experience.

Skills

Python

Ruby

Go

PHP

React

SQL

ElasticSearch

Job description

Liferaft is looking for a highly skilled and visionary Senior Software Engineer to help us continue to grow and enrich the platform our customers use to keep their people and assets safe. This role will be hybrid in Halifax, NS, or fully remote within Canada.

Reporting to the VP, Engineering, This individual will play a critical role in building on the already sophisticated open source threat intelligence platform we have. You will partner closely with the engineering leadership and core product engineering teams to build new features and capabilities across domains ranging from data acquisition to data visualization to threat intelligence and management. The successful candidate will have proven expertise and strong skills in both backend and frontend development.

What you do as the Senior Software Engineer at Liferaft

• Work closely with engineering and product leadership to architect, build, and maintain our customer facing threat intelligence platform in alignment with customer and market requirements
• Participate in standups, design and sprint reviews, bug bashes, and sprint kickoff activities for product releases
• Continuously analyze and optimize our platform to ensure an excellent customer experience
• Evaluate and propose new technologies and methodologies as needed to ensure we are aligned with industry best practices

Leverage agile practices, encourage collaboration, prioritization, and urgency to develop at a rapid pace

What You Need to Get the Job Done

• At least 5 years of experience working with Python, Ruby, Go, PHP or similar programming languages for back-end / API development
• 5 years of experience with MySQL, PostgreSQL or other RDBMSs with a solid understanding of SQL and database schema design
• Experience with React for front-end development
• Experience with ElasticSearch or other similar technologies is a plus
• You are a creative problem solver who works well with others and has a passion for lifelong learning.
• You are truly passionate about agile development, iterative improvement, and delivering value early and often
• Strong presentation and communication skills, with the ability to explain complex concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Experience with PHP and Laravel is a plus.

Why Liferaft?

We pride ourselves on our innovative spirit and determination to help solve new challenges developed by the complexities of open source data. Liferaft provides a threat intelligence and investigations platform, Navigator, to corporate security teams around the world, including some of the biggest brands you've probably referenced today! Navigator is designed to identify, track, and validate issues from open source channels (surface, deep web, and darknet) related to executive safety, fraud prevention, and asset & infrastructure protection. Our technology is helping keep these companies, their people, and their operations safe making a real impact in the world we all live in.

The diversity of our team is integral to our success. We are a team of passionate and supportive individuals and pride ourselves in fostering a collaborative, innovative, and fun culture.

We offer our team :

• Investment in personal and professional growth
• Remote work / office space with flexible hours
• Flexible time off Take a minimum of 15 days / year with no cap beyond!
• 750 Yearly Lifestyle Subsidy
• Diversity & Inclusion Committee
• Authentic, engaged team, who value work life balance

Were building a company future generations can be proud of.Diversity at Liferaft means fostering a workplace in which individual differences are recognized, appreciated, respected and responded to in ways that fully develop and utilize each person's talents and strengths. We welcome all qualified applicants regardless of race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, family status, genetic characteristics, disability, or any other protected characteristic.

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Senior Software Engineer • Halifax, NS, Canada