Backend Developer

Our client is looking for a Backend Developer to join the team in Toronto, you will be reporting to the Manager of Software Development. You will develop exciting micro-services, in Ruby and Golang, for the Direct-to-Consumer application team. You’ll be working on high profile and high trafficked applications with the demand for real-time performance and scalability requirements. Working on one of Canada’s most recognized brands, you’ll be exposed to new technology and industry leading experiences. Working in a cross-functional team consisting of a project manager, product owner, BSA, QA team members and other backend developers you will deliver new and improved application functionality using the SCRUM agile development methodology.

What you will do:

* Collaborate with internal partners and product owners to discuss their product needs and propose solutions.
* Writing reliable and robust code.
* Experience in creating, maintaining and improving RESTful APIs.
* Creating web services that respond in low numbers of milliseconds.
* Working closely with their infrastructure team to solve DevOps problems.
* Working closely with the back-end development team and Solutions Architect to produce software solutions.
* Designing relational and non-relational databases, working around issues in systems such as MySQL and Cassandra.
* Engage in Sprint Planning working sessions, where all members of the team meet to discuss any existing issues, how to technically approach new upcoming work and do task time/effort estimation.
* Attend and contribute to daily morning SCRUM stand-up meetings where each team member is expected to informally verbalize the current state of tasks being worked on.
* Use the internal JIRA bug tracking system and messaging system to detail a proposed technical solution to a business ask, and discuss tasks / bugs with other team members.
* Demonstrate the details of your work (at a high-level) to your team members and outside project stakeholders in regular Sprint Demo sessions.
* Take part in regular peer code reviews with fellow development team members.
* Cultivate interactive relationships with product owners, marketing and analytics teams to continually improve understanding of overall business objectives, identify opportunities and understand how digital goals can be maximized.
* Monitor overall site stability and performance goals, identifying areas of concern to be examined or escalated upon as needed.

What you will bring:

* Programming experience in Ruby and/or Go.
* Experience writing code that uses SQL and relational databases, Cassandra and non-relational databases.
* Understanding and ability to communicate the relationship of application architecture, database design and infrastructure in regards to performance and scalability.
* Experience in the managing, versioning and distributing APIs for high consumption.
* Experience working with application caching systems (Redis) and CDNs (Akamai, CloudFront).
* Experience in APM monitoring applications, such as New Relic, Datadog or Dynatrace.
* Experience with cloud infrastructure vendors such as AWS, Azure or Google Cloud.
* Experience with subscription payment platforms such as Zuora, Stripe, Paddle.
* Have a working knowledge of Git (and ideally of GitHub) or other versioning software.
* Excellent understanding of business objectives for digital media.
* Ability to confidently self-direct and work on a team with minimal supervision.
* Proficient in code reviews and in providing constructive feedback to the team.
* Highly organized, self-motivated, adept at managing change and priorities with an ability to work under tight deadlines.

Salt is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.