Backend Developer | Développeur backend

WorkJam is the world’s first digital frontline workplace, connecting the entire deskless workforce to work in perfect harmony. WorkJam is a fully modular super app that solves the most common problems faced by frontline enterprises around the world through task management, shift swapping and scheduling, two-way communication, and training.

We’re proud of our dedicated teams who are driven to make a difference for millions of frontline employees, which lead us to be recognized among TIME’s 100 most influential companies of 2023.

Perks of joining WorkJam:

• Competitive salary and benefits package
• 4 weeks’ vacation plus personal time off
• Contribution to your retirement/pension plan
• A flexible and remote/hybrid work environment to support a healthy work/life balance
• Generous employee referral bonus of $4,000
• Continuous learning platforms available

At WorkJam, our core values are respect and include, unify, make a difference and lead from the front. WorkJam is a high growth global organisation with operations in North America, Europe, and Australia with our head office based in Montreal. Learn more at WorkJam.com

Your role as a Backend Developer:

What you will be doing:

• Develop and maintain the back-end services powering our consumer-facing applications that deliver a seamless, rich experience to Web and Mobile Platforms.
• Support and enhance the foundations for a distributed Web application architecture, maintaining a high level of performance and quality.
• Exemplify our standard for quality of application development with elegant, scalable, clean code.
• Collaborate with a growing team of experienced designers, engineers, project managers and QA professionals.

What we're looking for:

Mandatory:

• BS Computer Science, Software Engineering or related fields.
• Recognized experience in Java back-end development with the following technologies: JDK 17+, Spring, Microservices, REST, Git, JUnit, mocking frameworks.
• Eligible to work in Canada (citizen, permanent resident or post graduate work permit holder)

Important assets:

• Experience working with SQL and NoSQL databases (PostgreSQL and Cassandra)
• Experience working with Docker, Kubernetes and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with Cloud-based SaaS application development and GCP.
• Worked in an Agile / Scrum development team that promoted software development best practices, such as automated testing, code reviews, vulnerability management and DevOps techniques.
• Good understanding of the software development life cycle (SDLC).
• Good understanding of Atlassian tools (Jira, Confluence and Bitbucket).
• Collaborative individual who works well in a team as well as an individual setting.
• Problem solver and critical thinker.
• Quality driven, customer focused.
• Good written and oral communication skills.

This role requires strong English skills to interact with global colleagues outside Quebec. Proficiency in both spoken and written English is essential.

We are proud to offer bilingual job opportunities to all qualified candidates. Our job descriptions are written in both French and English to welcome French- and English-speaking talents. We encourage applications from all qualified individuals and are committed to an inclusive work environment that respects diversity.