Senior Software Engineer - Full Stack

Socket.dev; Toronto; On-site; CAD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Socket.dev is seeking a senior software engineer with 6+ years of experience, including project lead responsibilities, to own complex development and guide teammates.

You will work in a Scrum/DevOps environment on AWS, microservices, REST APIs, and modern frontend stacks using React and JavaScript, while mentoring juniors and contributing to architecture decisions and code quality.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent years’ experience.
• Minimum of 6 years’ professional experience in Java development.
• Hands-on experience with React and JavaScript.
• Experience working in OS X and Linux environments, Spring, AWS, Microservices, SQL, NoSQL, GIT. Experience working in a scrum and DevOps environment.
• Good understanding of agile application development lifecycle.
• Experience Designing and building JSON or REST services, experience working with 3rd party APIs, AWS APIs, Docker or other containers, large-scale or distributed web applications, Test Driven Development and functional testing.
• Extensive understanding of various design patterns and OOP paradigm
• Extensive experience in RESTful and security of API design
• Intermediate level in at least 1 OOP language
• Intermediate knowledge in react native and react
• Intermediate knowledge in Javascript
• Intermediate knowledge in nodejs
• Extensive knowledge how NPM package & webpack lifecycle works
• Experience in IOS/Android development

Responsibilities

• Lead software development initiatives with a focus on quality and maintainability.
• Identify risks and areas for improvement in own work and the team.
• Follow SDLC with Agile ceremonies, peer code reviews, and release readiness.
• Collaborate with product and analytics to drive cross-functional requirements.
• On-board and mentor less experienced team members.
• Develop sophisticated software with minimal supervision.
• Produce API documentation and contribute to design sessions.
• Perform advanced refactoring and provide constructive feedback.

Skills

Mentoring

Leadership

Communication

Problem solving

Empathy

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Spring

AWS

Microservices

SQL

NoSQL

GIT

React

JavaScript

Docker

Node.js

NPM

webpack

REST APIs

JSON

React Native

IOS/Android development

Job description

What you'll do:

• 6+ years of software development experience, preferably with Project Lead experience.
• Takes personal responsibility for quality and maintainability of the product and actively identifies areas for improvement
• Identifies problems/risks of own work and others.
• Understanding of OWASP
• Possesses empathy with the user of the software they are producing and uses that empathy to guide decision-making
• Identifies viable alternative solutions and presents them
• SDLC processes are followed, including adopting agile-based processes/meetings, peer code-reviews, and technical preparations required for scheduled releases.
• Partners with product and analytics and drive requirements that take into account all parties' needs
• On-boards and mentors less experienced team members
• Develops sophisticated software with minimum supervision
• Makes complex contributions to technical documentation/knowledge base and team/engineering presentations
• Strong ability to mentor and guide junior developers.
• May have role in supervising others or leading small to moderate projects
• Fixes complex bugs and demonstrates advanced debugging skills
• Produces quality API documentation and ensures practices are followed
• Contributes to system design sessions in their area of specialty
• Expanded Code review responsibilities
• Performs advanced refactoring
• Gives constructive feedback to team members
• Learn industry jargon and business concepts to better understand the challenges our technology is designed to solve.
• Raises roadblocks and updates estimations as needed
• Ability to communicate complicated concepts to junior staff.

What we're looking for:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent years’ experience
• Minimum of 6 years’ professional experience in Java development
• Hands-on experience with React and JavaScript
• Experience working in OS X and Linux environments, Spring, AWS, Microservices, SQL, NoSQL, GIT. Experience working in a scrum and DevOps environment.
• Good understanding of agile application development lifecycle.
• Experience Designing and building JSON or REST services, experience working with 3rd party APIs, AWS APIs, Docker or other containers, large-scale or distributed web applications, Test Driven Development and functional testing.
• Extensive understanding of various design patterns and OOP paradigm
• Extensive experience in RESTful and security of API design
• Intermediate level in at least 1 OOP language
• Intermediate knowledge in react native and react
• Intermediate knowledge in Javascript
• Intermediate knowledge in nodejs
• Extensive knowledge how NPM package & webpack lifecycle works
• Experience in IOS/Android development