Senior Software Engineer (Payments)

More than 9,000 organizations use our HR and payroll suite, from regional hospitals to school districts. Public sector agencies, utilities and large health systems licence our asset management platform under multi-year contracts. Laptops are MacBook Pros, and you pick your own editor.

Role overview

This is a newly created position. This is a hands-on coding role on software used by a few hundred thousand people. Expect code review, design discussions and a fair amount of debugging. Remote within Canada. The team meets in Hamilton once a quarter, travel covered. Flexible schedule. We have one team call a day, usually in the morning.

Main duties

• Review pull requests from teammates and give clear, specific feedback.
• Contribute to postmortems and follow through on the action items.
• Improve the reliability of existing code instead of just adding features on top of it.
• Maintain REST and gRPC APIs used by internal teams and outside partners.
• Take part in an on-call rotation (roughly one week in six) and help resolve production incidents.
• Design, build and maintain services in Python, Go or Java that handle real customer traffic.
• Mentor junior engineers through pairing and code review.
• Write unit and integration tests and keep the CI pipeline green.

What you need

• 7+ years of professional software development experience.
• Familiarity with Git, pull request workflows and CI tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins or CircleCI.
• Comfortable working in Linux and on the command line.
• Some exposure to AWS, GCP or Azure.
• Willing to join the on-call rotation once ramped up.
• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms and basic system design.

Preferred qualifications

• Contributions to open source projects.
• Event-driven systems using Kafka or RabbitMQ.

What you get

• Flexible hours.
• Home office allowance.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Immediately.

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