Senior Software Engineer I - Java

Emburse; Toronto; On-site; CAD 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company that values innovation and collaboration. As a software engineer, you'll tackle exciting challenges, enhance customer experiences, and design impactful solutions. With a focus on quality and maintainability, you will work alongside some of the brightest minds in the industry, contributing to the development of interconnected system solutions. This role offers the opportunity to mentor junior developers, lead projects, and produce quality documentation. If you're passionate about technology and eager to make a difference, this is the perfect opportunity for you to grow your career in a supportive and dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in software development with a focus on Python, Java, or JavaScript.
• Strong understanding of agile development and DevOps practices.

Responsibilities

• Develop sophisticated software solutions with a focus on quality and maintainability.
• Mentor junior developers and contribute to system design sessions.

Skills

Python

Java

JavaScript

Agile Methodologies

Debugging Skills

Empathy with Users

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science

Equivalent years’ experience

Tools

AWS

Docker

GIT

SQL

NoSQL

Job description

Emburse software engineers contribute to the development of an engaging and interconnected set of system solutions. As an engineer, you will enhance the experiences of your customers, solve interesting challenges, and design new solutions. Emburse, known for its innovation and award-winning technologies, is strong on engineering. This ensures you will have access to the best and brightest minds in our industry to grow your experience and career within Emburse.

What You'll Do

• Takes personal responsibility for quality and maintainability of the product and actively identifies areas for improvement.
• Identifies problems/risks of own work and of OWASP.
• Possesses empathy with the user of the software they are producing and uses that empathy to guide decision-making.
• Identifies viable alternative solutions.
• Follows SDLC processes, including adopting agile-based processes/meetings, peer code-reviews, and technical preparations required for scheduled releases.
• Partners with product and analytics and drives requirements that take into account all parties' needs.
• Onboards and mentors less experienced team members.
• Develops sophisticated software with minimum supervision.
• Makes complex contributions to technical documentation/knowledge base and team/engineering presentations.
• Strong ability to mentor and guide junior developers.
• May have a role in supervising others or leading small to moderate projects.
• Fixes complex bugs and demonstrates advanced debugging skills.
• Produces quality API documentation and ensures practices are followed.
• Contributes to system design sessions in their area of specialty.
• Expanded code review responsibilities.
• Performs advanced refactoring.

What We're Looking For

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent years’ experience.
• Minimum of 6 years’ professional experience in at least one of the following programming languages: Python, Java, or JavaScript.
• Experience working in OS X and Linux environments, Python Frameworks, AWS, Microservices, SQL, NoSQL, GIT.
• Experience working in a scrum and DevOps environment with a good understanding of the agile application development lifecycle.
• Experience designing and building JSON or REST services, working with 3rd party APIs, AWS APIs, Docker or other containers, and large-scale or distributed web applications, including Test Driven Development and functional testing.