Senior Back End Developer

Spring Financial; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading financial company as a Senior Back End Developer in Vancouver, where you'll enhance and maintain applications to simplify the lending process. You'll work with innovative technologies, lead junior developers, and engage in cross-discipline projects within a collaborative, dynamic environment offering opportunities for career growth.

Benefits

Transit allowance

GRSP matching program

Opportunity for career development

Great work environment

Qualifications

• 4+ years of PHP/Python experience.
• 2+ years with a modern JS framework (Vue, Angular, React, Nuxt).
• 5+ years of working with relational databases.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain in-house applications.
• Work on 3rd party integrations in the financial industry.
• Mentor junior developers and ensure code quality.

Skills

PHP

Python

Linux

Git

REST APIs

GraphQL

Agile methodologies

Tools

Laravel

Django

Express

MySQL

Postgres

AWS

Job description

Since 2014, Spring Financial has been simplifying the lending process for millions of Canadians facing all types of financial circumstances. Spring offers a growing range of financial products and services which currently include personal loans, mortgages, credit cards and secured loans - all of which are made available to Canadians without having to visit a branch!

We are high-energy entrepreneurs who operate with a real sense of urgency. We have created some of the best-in-market products and sales processes, allowing millions of Canadians to get access to financing online, via text, or over the phone—all from the comfort of their own homes! To learn more about our products, please visit our website here : www.springfinancial.ca .

Role Overview

As a Senior Back End Developer, you will play a key role in exciting new projects aimed at helping Canadians simplify the lending process and make it as stress-free as possible. You will collaborate with the existing backend team to regularly create and develop internal projects and applications.

NOTE : This is a full-time, on-site position located at our downtown Vancouver office.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Developing, enhancing and maintaining in-house, and customer-facing applications
• Work on 3rd party integrations with partner systems in the financial industry
• Working in backend frameworks such as Laravel, Django, Express etc.
• Our tech stack is PHP / Laravel for the backend and Vue / Nuxt on the frontend
• Newer services are now built serverless (node / python runtimes) in AWS
• Implementing serverless and containerization platforms on AWS
• Mentoring and leading junior / intermediate developers
• Ensure sufficient code coverage by writing effective unit tests
• Creating technical content for JIRA tasks / sub-tasks, breaking down complex requirements
• Socialize JIRA stories / tasks you are responsible for with team members
• Actively participate in architectural systems design along with senior team members
• Working closely with project managers, quality and business analysts to ensure the completion of projects on time with the quality expected
• Being part of exciting multidisciplinary projects that might require interaction with Front End, Data Science, DevOps teams.

What You Should Already Have

• 4+ years of professional experience with either PHP, Python
• 2+ years with modern JS framework (Vue, Angular, React, Nuxt)
• 4 + years experience with Linux
• 5+ years with a relational database such as MySQL, Postgres
• You know your way around Git and have worked in GitFlow
• You have experience with using and building REST-style APIs, and GraphQL
• Experience with backend MVC frameworks (Laravel 8-11)
• Experience working under Agile methodologies (Scrum, SAFe, Kanban) using Jira and confluence
• Bonus : AWS knowledge, especially the serverless stack (SAM, Serverless)
• Bonus : NoSql experience in Dynamodb, MongoDB, Cassandra
• Bonus : E-commerce (Shopify) experience and payment gateway integrations
• Bonus : Responsive layouts are no problems for you with or without grid frameworks
• Bonus : Experience with CSS3 advanced features such as animations, transitions, flex-box, etc.

This is a truly exciting time to join Spring Financial and we are looking forward to doing great things together!

In addition to a competitive salary, we provide :

• A great work environment in the heart of Downtown Vancouver
• Transit-Friendly Employer (Transit allowance)
• GRSP matching program
• Opportunity for career development

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