Senior / Principal Software Engineer

Stock Recruitment; Toronto; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in cloud computing is seeking an experienced software engineer to join their innovative team. You will work on exciting projects that directly impact customers, utilizing the latest technologies in a flexible and agile environment. Bring your expertise in server-side and UI technologies to help shape the future of the industry.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in software development.
• Strong understanding of software engineering principles.
• Experience with mission-critical software.

Responsibilities

• Implement code structured for metrics monitoring and logging.
• Deliver detailed designs and drive projects to completion.
• Interface with various teams including QA and Product Management.

Skills

Software development

Reliability

Server-side technologies

UI technologies

REST

Agile methodology

Tools

Hibernate

Spring

Backbone.js

AWS

Docker

Job description

We are looking for an experienced software engineer to join a team where your work will be front and center to thousands of customers.

You will join an elite team who is innovative and flexible; with a weekly, agile release cycle and individual ownership. We expect great things from our engineers and reward them with stimulating new projects, emerging technologies and the chance to be part of a company that is about to change the cloud computing landscape forever.

You will :

• Implement code written structured for metrics monitoring and logging, perform peer reviews
• Deliver detailed designs for projects, and subsequently drive them to completion
• Work with engineering management to scope and plan engineering efforts and dependencies
• Interface with QA, Product Management, Technical Support, Documentation and UX

You have :

• 4+ years of software development experience building highly-reliable, mission-critical software
• Experience working with a system of scale
• Excellent grasp of software engineering principles
• Strong understanding of server side technologies : caching, process and asynchronous processing
• Prior experience working on UI technologies (e.g. Backbone) highly desirable
• Prior experience with or understanding of REST (or designing APIs) highly desirable

The Stack

• We use open source frameworks such as Hibernate, Spring and Backbone.js
• We run on best of breed infrastructure including MySQL, GitHub, Memcached, Redis, Kinesis and Elasticsearch
• We make extensive use of virtualization and containers : AWS, Vagrant, Docker
• Our weekly production releases are made possible by Continuous Integration and sophisticated build, test and release automation leveraging Maven, npm, Artifactory, Chef, Ansible and the like
• We participate in the OpenSource community