Founding Senior SW Engineer

HRB; Toronto; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company in Toronto is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their new R&D office. This role offers the opportunity to impact the engineering culture and team significantly. Candidates should have a strong background in object-oriented design and experience in Agile environments. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop scalable solutions while promoting engineering excellence.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional hands-on experience.
• Strong object-oriented design and coding skills.
• Experience in Agile/Scrum environments.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to solve customer challenges.
• Design and develop functionalities exposed via web.
• Promote engineering excellence through mentorship.

Skills

Object-oriented design

Critical thinking

Teamwork

Leadership

Agile/Scrum

Job description

Get in on the ground floor of our new R&D office! Over time, our office will grow into a pillar of the technology community in Toronto. We want to attract thought leaders, who are passionate about solving engineering problems, to form the foundation of our team. Being a founding engineer means that you’ll have a high degree of impact and autonomy on how the engineering team and culture grows in Toronto.

Who You Are

Your Success Profile

What You Will Work On

• Collaborate with a cross-functional team to find solutions to customer challenges
• Take ownership of designing and developing functionalities that are exposed via web
• Promote engineering excellence through technical leadership, knowledge-sharing, and mentorship
• Add capabilities to our high-volume, fault-tolerant processing infrastructure
• Implement internal services
• Enhance our testing, monitoring, and continuous deployment infrastructure
• Keep extremely sensitive data compartmentalized and secure
• Perform other related duties as assigned

How You Will Do Your Work

As a Senior Software Engineer, how results are achieved is paramount for your success and ultimately results in our success as an organization. Your foundational knowledge, skills, abilities, and personal attributes should align with the following competencies:

• Good judgment - exercising critical thinking, analyzing problems and implications, identifying patterns, understanding risks, and developing mitigation strategies.
• Resourcefulness - taking a can-do approach, optimizing available resources, and improving processes.
• Teamwork and communication - collaborating effectively, documenting, listening, empathizing, and building relationships.
• Influence and leadership - fostering knowledge-sharing, mentorship, and collaboration.
• Skills and knowledge - actively learning and applying domain knowledge, aligned with our core values: Camaraderie, Openess, Grit, Integrity, and Simplicity.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional hands-on experience
• Strong object-oriented design and coding skills
• Experience working with complex systems at scale
• Solid understanding of data structures and algorithms
• Experience building new features from scratch with clean, scalable code
• Experience supporting engineers and acting as a tech lead
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments
• Experience in high-growth environments with deadlines and milestones

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