Software Developer II

Cision Ltd.; Ottawa; Hybrid; Confidential; Full time

Job summary

Cision Ltd. is seeking a Backend Engineer to join their Ottawa office. The role involves developing scalable microservices and data processing pipelines, utilizing technologies like Java and Spring. With a focus on collaboration and innovation, this position offers a supportive environment and opportunities for professional growth.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

High level of responsibility & autonomy

Internal tech talks and skills-building resources

Newest technologies and room for experimentation

Qualifications

• Minimum 2-3 years hands-on experience as a developer on a production system.
• Good knowledge of Java and Spring ecosystem.
• Experience with relational and NoSQL databases.

Responsibilities

• Develop quality microservice solutions with cutting-edge technologies.
• Build highly scalable, high-volume data processing pipelines.
• Write clean, self-testing, well-documented code.

Skills

Java

Spring

RESTful APIs

Elasticsearch

Kafka

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

At Cision, we believe in empowering every individual to make an impact. Here, your voice is heard, your ideas are valued, and your unique perspective fuels our collective success. As part of our global team, you'll thrive in an environment that champions curiosity, collaboration, and innovation, all while making meaningful contributions to the brands we accelerate.

Join us in shaping the future of communication and building authentic connections that matter. Whether you're solving complex problems or driving bold innovations, your growth is our success, and together, we’ll create the conversations of tomorrow.

Empower your impact at Cision. Be seen, be understood, be you.

Cision employs the brightest, most passionate people in the tech industry. We’d love for you to join our growing team! We invest in our people through training and professional development while supporting you along the way—all so you can meet your career goals. To us, the most important measure of our success is yours.

The Cision Comms Cloud, and the Cision Comms Cloud NextGen are media monitoring tools that enable communications teams to plan and monitor their PR and earned media activities. Cision's product collect media content from print, online, radio, television and social media in addition to profiles of journalists and influencers to inform teams about how to connect with journalists and understand the brand impacts that PR activities hold.

Cision has an ethos of encouraging autonomy, ambition, boldness and experimentation. We value open people who take initiative and aren’t afraid to fail, learn from mistakes, adjust, and try to get better at what they do every day.

As a Cision Backend Engineer, you will help build, scale and improve the backend of a fast-growing Customer Experience platform. You will aid us in building a real time, scalable, stable platform serving thousands of clients in a reliable and performant manner. You will be using new technologies, to solve hard problems in a friendly and encouraging work environment. You will also be encouraged to share your experience and knowledge, sparring with your colleagues to grow together!

Your Colleagues

You will be joining the Ottawa office where Cision already has several backend teams, and also working with seasoned teams located in Canada, Germany and the US. Your colleagues are going to be experience at building high volume, stable, supportable enterprise software systems. They are also excited to help onboard and learn alongside new people and teams.

What You'll Do

• Develop quality microservice solutions with cutting edge technologies together with dedicated marksmen to help fulfilling our different business goals
• Store data efficiently in a matching storage engine
• Build highly scalable, high volume data processing pipelines with a DevOps mindset
• Help design, implement and improve our services while helping us adopt best practices
• Write clean, self testing, well documented code
• Be mindful of the business - by communicating with your colleagues and management, help us ensure that we’re building the right thing at the right time
  

What You Have

• Minimum 2-3 years hands-on experience on a production system as developer
• Good knowledge of Java, we are using Java 21 Reactor library
• Good knowledge of Spring ecosystem
• Experience with relational and NoSQL databases
• Experience with index engine like Elasticsearch
• Good knowledge of RESTful APIs, their design and implementation
• Experience with messaging technologies, Kafka is a plus, we use it a lot
• Experience with building and/or running large-scale applications on a PaaS/SaaS cloud, preferably GCP
• Knowledge of Docker and containerization, Kubernetes a big plus

What We Can Offer

• An open and informal work environment.
• Flexible working hours: work-life balance is essential for us.
• High level of responsibility & autonomy.
• Helpful colleagues and motivating working culture
• Work with a highly skilled team - You can learn a lot here
• Internal tech talks, skills-building resources and technical people leads who help you achieve mastery
• Newest technologies, room for experimentation

As a global leader in PR, marketing and social media management technology and intelligence, Cision helps brands and organizations to identify, connect and engage with customers and stakeholders to drive business results.PR Newswire , a network of over 1.1 billion influencers, in-depth monitoring, analytics and itsBrandwatch andFalcon.io social media platforms headline a premier suite of solutions. Cision has offices in 24 countries throughout the Americas, EMEA and APAC. For more information about Cision's award-winning solutions, including its next-gen Cision Communications Cloud, visitwww.cision.com and follow @Cision on Twitter.

Cision is committed to fostering an inclusive environment where all employees can be their authentic selves and perform at their best. We believe diversity, equity, and inclusion is vital to driving our culture, sparking innovation and achieving long-term success. Cision is proud to have joined more than 600 companies in signing theCEO Action for Diversity & Inclusion pledge and named a “Top Diversity Employer” for 2021 byDiversityJobs.com .

Cision is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, seeking to create a welcoming and diverse environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status, or other protected statuses.

Cision is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. In keeping with our commitment, Cision will take the steps to assure that people with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. Accordingly, if reasonable accommodation is required to fully participate in the job application or interview process, to perform the essential functions of the position, and/or to receive all other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact [e-mail]