Senior Software Engineer (Backend)

Evertz Microsystems Limited; Canada; Remote; CAD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology company in Canada is seeking a Software Developer to join their engineering team. The role involves contributing to all stages of project lifecycles, from design to deployment. Candidates should have extensive experience in Python, full-stack development, and API design, along with a strong collaborative ability in Agile environments. This position offers a creative workspace and opportunities for professional growth.

Qualifications

• 8 years of experience with Python.
• 5 years of experience in full-stack development.
• Proficient in API design and implementation.

Responsibilities

• Assist in team projects through all lifecycle stages.
• Write product development code and maintain existing documentation.
• Participate in design reviews and manage project priorities.

Skills

Python

Full-stack development

API design and implementation

Cloud computing (AWS)

Unit testing with Jest or Jasmine

Interpersonal skills

Code review participation

Tools

Angular

DynamoDB

MongoDB

GitHub actions

Jenkins

Terraform

Job description

Job Description

Please submit your documents in English when applying for this position.

As part of this role, you will be expected to:

• Assist in team projects and be involved in all steps of the lifecycle, including design, implementation, testing, and production.
• Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and adapt content based on product/program updates and user feedback.
• Write product or system development code.
• Participate in design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide amongst available technologies.
• Manage individual project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and improve software.

Skills and Experience:

• 8 years of experience with Python
• 5 years of experience in full-stack development is highly desirable
• Proficiency with design, planning & implementation of APIs (REST, protobuf)
• Exposure to Cloud computing (preferably AWS)
• A good eye for well-structured, modular and maintainable code
• Unit testing with Jest or Jasmine
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to communicate clearly
• Keen on participating in peer-reviewing code for technical accuracy, ensuring that technical standards are met

Additional skills and experience that will be useful:

• Experience with frontend development, preferably Angular
• Familiar with microservices architectures and patterns.
• Understanding of event-driven architectures, observable streams and RxJS
• Knowledge of state management systems such as NgRx, or other Redux pattern library
• Experience creating Serverless applications using event-driven architecture (AWS API Gateway, Lambda, DynamoDB, EventBridge, etc).
• Experience with observability frameworks (e.g., OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Honeycomb) and understanding of the importance of observability in distributed systems
• Experience working with NoSQL databases (DynamoDB, MongoDB)
• Familiar with CI/CD pipelines ( GitHub actions, Jenkins, AWS CodePipeline)
• Knowledge of major architecture styles and design patterns (message oriented, event based, etc.)
• Experience building SaaS products in a multi-tenant environment
• Familiar with integration and contract testing
• Knowledge of networking
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code in the cloud (CloudFormation, AWS CDK, Terraform).
• Interest in working with machine learning to create smart solutions for the broadcast industry

Recruitment process:

• Screening with recruiter (45min)
• Technical interview with Team Lead and Dev (about 60min)
• Interview with Hiring Manager (up to 45min)

About the position:

The evertz.io Engineering Team builds next-generation systems for content management and distribution in the Media and Entertainment industry. Many world's leading media companies use our products and services to make the most of their file-based and live content for the least effort.

We work with high-quality video in real-time and non-real-time scenarios across a wide range of cutting-edge tech. Specializations within the group span from low-level video manipulation and analysis, through back-end management and orchestration services, to web delivered UIs. Working in parallel with these teams is the Scientific Computing Group who work in computer vision, data science and machine learning, taking experiments in Jupyter notebooks through to deployment in production. This makes for a challenging and rewarding engineering experience of continual learning and plenty of opportunity to explore different parts of the stack.

We work in agile, low-bureaucracy, cross-functional teams spread across the world. It’s a highly creative work environment where the team is built on trust and is relaxed, open and welcoming to all.

Evertz has engineering offices in Canada, England, Scotland, India, and now it's time for Poland!