Senior Digital Developer

Definity Financial; Toronto; On-site; CAD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a full-stack developer, where you'll be instrumental in evolving a consumer-facing platform. You'll collaborate with a talented team, leveraging cutting-edge technologies like Node.js and Angular, while enhancing our AWS/GCP infrastructure. This role offers a unique opportunity to contribute to the optimization and reliability of core digital applications, ensuring a seamless user experience. If you're passionate about technology and eager to make an impact, this position promises to be both challenging and rewarding.

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of Node.js, AngularJS, and Angular 18 with best practices.
• Experience in cloud environments for developing front-end applications.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with a team to design front-end solutions and automate unit tests.
• Handle coding, development, deployment, and maintenance of tech solutions.

Skills

Node.js

AngularJS

Angular 18

JavaScript

PostgreSQL

DevOps

HTML5

CSS3

Git/Bitbucket

Spring Boot

Education

University degree in Computer Science

College diploma in Information Systems

Tools

AWS

GCP

BitBucket

CircleCI

Terraform

Job description

We are looking for a talented and passionate team-player to join the Digital team as a full-stack developer. You’ll play a significant role in building the next evolution of our platform, providing extensive new capabilities to our clients, and working alongside a strong team of developers, product managers, and designers. Your work will contribute to the delivery, reliability, and optimization of the core digital application, leveraging the latest JavaScript-based tooling and best practices. You will also have opportunities to learn and expand our AWS/GCP infrastructure and DevOps pipelines.

Our Technology Stack:

• Mobile: Swift (iOS), Kotlin (Android)
• Web: JavaScript, AngularJS, Angular 18, Node.js, Ruby on Rails, Stencil, Express, GraphQL
• Database: PostgreSQL
• DevOps: BitBucket, CircleCI, FastLane, Terraform
• Infrastructure: Amazon Web Services

What can you expect in this role?

1. Work with a team of skilled software engineers creating a rapidly evolving consumer-facing platform.
2. Collaborate with others to design front-end solutions and utilize the tech stack effectively to solve business problems.
3. Contribute ideas to leverage evolving technologies for an optimal end-to-end developer experience.
4. Collaborate with designers to automate unit tests, applying practices such as TDD and Pair Programming. Responsible for unit and system testing of your code.
5. Proactively identify technical debt and seek improvements through refactoring.
6. Handle coding, development, deployment, maintenance, and support of technology solutions.
7. Develop technical designs supporting maintenance and support requirements.
8. Leverage code and build management frameworks provided by the Build Master.
9. Work with the Environment Analyst to create and configure environments as needed.
10. Ensure solution documentation is complete, accurate, and traceable to business and system requirements.
11. Operate within Agile methodologies, with two-week sprints.
12. Collaborate with the Scrum Master and team to develop and maintain project Kanban, iteration, and release plans.
13. Assist in translating requirements into a story map with the Discovery Team.
14. Design solutions based on current iteration requirements.

What do you bring to the role?

• University degree or college diploma in computer science, information systems, or related discipline.
• Strong knowledge of Node.js and Spring Boot, including supporting frameworks and best practices.
• Strong knowledge of AngularJS and Angular 18, including supporting frameworks, patterns, and best practices.
• Understanding of designing code for performance and security.
• Knowledge of front-end technologies such as HTML5 and CSS3.
• Experience with PostgreSQL or Redis.
• Basic understanding of DevOps pipeline design and operation for front-end applications.
• Practical experience working in a cloud environment for developing and releasing front-end applications.
• Experience integrating multiple data sources and databases into one system.
• Understanding of fundamental design principles for scalable applications.
• Proficiency with version control tools like Git/Bitbucket.
• Understanding of enterprise and web architecture and REST.
• Experience with design patterns, object-oriented analysis and design, service-oriented architecture, n-tier architecture, and best coding practices like clean code and refactoring.
• Knowledge of security protocols for front-end applications such as OAuth and awareness of security vulnerabilities.