Senior Full Stack Developer - Contract

Intergalactic Agency Inc.; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 60,000 - 100,000; Part time

Job summary

Join a dynamic and innovative tech agency as a Senior Full Stack Engineer, where your skills will shine on challenging projects. Work alongside passionate developers to create custom web applications and interactive experiences for renowned clients. This role offers the opportunity to push the boundaries of technology while contributing to a collaborative team environment. Enjoy a flexible hybrid work schedule in a dog-friendly office, complete with great coffee and healthy snacks. If you're driven by curiosity and creativity, this is the perfect opportunity to make a significant impact in the tech world.

Benefits

Dog-friendly office

Nespresso coffee

Healthful snacks and drinks

Flexible work schedule

Qualifications

• 3-5 years experience with ReactJS and NodeJS.
• Expert in API development and CI/CD processes.

Responsibilities

• Develop and deploy high-quality, scalable web applications.
• Collaborate with creative teams on innovative projects.

Skills

ReactJS

NodeJS

API development (JSON, GraphQL)

CI/CD

Database management (NoSQL, SQL)

Containerization (Docker)

Secure coding

Creativity

Tools

Docker

AWS

Azure

GCP

Git

Job description

Intergalactic is looking to hire a Senior Full Stack Engineer on a part-time contract basis to start.

You love working on challenging projects and ensuring that they are delivered to the highest quality. You also like to work with other smart, skilled, passionate developers and help inform tech direction and best practices. As part of a team of other web and interactive devs you will work directly with clients, designers and other developers delivering projects from concept and proposal through to development and delivery.

Who we are:

Intergalactic Agency is an award winning innovation and creative tech agency. Projects range from complex web site builds (e.g. global virtual events platform) to real-time multi-user web AR solutions to custom apps using Unity and related tech. Our clients include Cisco, Brand Live, SAP, Microsoft, Xbox, EY and Thatcham Research. We’re a fast-moving company where you’ll see the work you do put into action. We collaborate with design and event production companies from around the world to bring brilliant ideas to life.

This is a project by project contract role working out of our Vancouver office where we've embraced a hybrid work schedule (5 of 10 days).

What you’ll do:

• Work on custom web applications and interactive projects
• Ideate and estimate on creative briefs as part of team ideation sessions
• Work with the Creative Team to come up with envelope pushing experiences
• Keep up to date on latest tech and trends and present these to the larger team
• Architect, develop and deploy high quality, complex, and highly scalable systems
• Work within the software development teams to streamline the build processes and release management via continuous integration and deployment pipelines
• Produce clean, efficient, high quality code based on specifications and best practices
• Contribute to creating a cohesive and well organised team

The ideal candidate will have the following:

• Experience with CI/CD
• 3 - 5+ years work experience using ReactJS
• 3 - 5+ years work experience using NodeJS
• 3 - 5+ years work experience (expert) API development skills: JSON, graphQL, etc
• 2 - 3+ years work experience working with databases (NoSQL - MongoDB/Redis and SQL - MySQL, PostgreSQL)
• 2 - 3+ years work experience working with headless CMS implementations
• 2 - 3+ years containerizing applications with Docker
• Ability to design secure and testable code
• Be curiosity driven and creative

Nice to haves (we know it's a lot for one person):

• Experience / proficiency with three.js
• Familiarity with Dev Ops: AWS / Azure / GCP proficiency
• Proficient in scripting and automation skills
• Experience with gitops services

We operate on a hybrid model (5 of 10 days - but flexible) with a dog friendly "exposed post and beam" office in Yaletown, Nespresso coffee and healthful snacks and drinks provided.

Interested? Send us your application including a cover letter, with your favourite sci-fi movie quote (with a name like Intergalactic, what did you expect) and an explanation of why it’s your favourite.