28 Dec
Braintrust
Toronto
Job Description
Interview process:
- Recruiter screen
- Coding test @ home
- Technical interview
- Values interview
Start date: Mid November
Please note: A background check will be conducted as part of the hiring process.
Salary range: 98k - 138k CAD (reflected as an approximate amount in USD on the job posting).
Fully remote role - (Occasional travel to the Montreal office for in-person events)
We’re looking for a Senior Software Developer who can design, build, test, and shiphigh quality software that delivers value to our customers. You’ll be a technical leader on a small and agile team that continuously incorporates feedback to refine and improve the products and features being delivered.
You will foster and challenge established patterns and best practices to improve the quality of work delivered by the team. The team will own the entire delivery lifecycle from beta releases to production ready, scalable products suitable for new and existing customers. In line with Hootsuite's distributed workforce strategy, our flexible work arrangement allows for remote work or a hybrid model. This role is open to applicants located in Montreal or anywhere in Ontario or Quebec. In this role, you will report to the Manager, Software Development.
WHAT YOU’LL DO:
- Deliver cross-domain projects, actively promoting architectural improvements for scalable solutions, and design code to bolster state of the art best practices, system security, accessibility, and privacy measures.
- Lead comprehensive testing strategies to enhance system reliability, and resolve complex issues in live environments. Oversee and uphold efficient observability measures to ensure continuous monitoring remains effective.
- Take ownership of complex projects, ensuring timely delivery,
swift escalation of any blockers encountered, and collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment and successful execution.
- Advocate for technical solutions, foster consensus among stakeholders to move projects forward, and represent the team in high-level meetings, ensuring transparency and alignment with project objectives.
- Facilitate team growth through mentorship, foster a culture of excellence, and pursue personal growth while contributing to the development goals of the team and organization.
- Identify technical opportunities aligned with team and project goals, proactively mitigate associated risks, and provide strategic insights to optimize roadmap efficiency and achieve significant business impact.
WHAT YOU’LL NEED:
- A degree in Computer Science or Engineering, and 5-8 years of experience in designing,
developing and maintaining software or an equivalent level of work experience, and a track record of substantial contributions to software projects with high business impact.
- Ability to foster and challenge existing patterns and best practices in delivering code and tests via stories and epics that impact the team or multiple teams.
- Experience working with technologies like Go, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, Terraform and microservices
- Experience with distributed processing technologies and frameworks, such as Kafka, and distributed storage systems (e.g. S3)
- Create solid data foundations to power data-driven product features
- Demonstrated ability to analyze large data sets to identify gaps and inconsistencies, provide data insights, and advance effective product solutions
- Independently use root cause analysis to identify and address bugs and outages.
Foster and challenge logging, monitoring and debugging best practices across groups of services and apps.
- Foster and challenge architecture concepts and best practices and independently apply these practices to create new services and apps that meet system performance, modifiability, maintainability and reliability needs.
- Foster and challenge security and compliance practices in daily work.
- Foster and challenge agile processes and continuous integration and delivery practices to ship stories and high complexity epics/projects.
- You can collaborate and communicate effectively within and across departments. Lead technical discussions, listen actively and have two-way non-technical discussions with design and product. Able to represent the team across disciplines.
- Independently seek guidance, feedback,
and learning opportunities from across the development organization to foster personal and professional growth. Support peers and more junior devs growth, prioritizing skill transfer.
- Display eagerness to learn and collaborate on goal-setting. Independent in creating goals aligned with personal development and supported in aligning some goals with team goals.
- Understand business and technical value behind roadmap projects and lead development scoping/project analysis. Can align business and technical requirements to bring proposals for projects to the team. Deliver on roadmaps effectively by communicating individual and epic-level risks and opportunities.
- Perseverance: pursues everything with energy, drive, and a need to finish—doesn’t give up
- Resilience, Tolerance for Change/Ambiguity: can effectively cope with change,
finding ways to advance work and projects
- Customer Focus: demonstrates a desire to proactively help and serve internal/external customers meet their needs
WHO YOU ARE:
- Tenacious. You are determined to succeed, and you are motivated by thesuccess of customers, colleagues and the community.
- Curious. You are always learning and seeking ways to make things better.
- Conscientious. You keep your promises, taking your commitments to others seriously, and you have strong integrity.
- Humble. You lead with humility and empathy, respecting and learning from the perspectives of others.
Main Benefits:
- Paid parental leave
- Learning budget
- Personal development days
- Medical, dental, prescription, and eye care coverage
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