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Senior/Principal Software Engineer

Stock Recruitment
Full-time
On-site
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Engineer

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

  • Our primary programming languages are Java and JavaScript
  • 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