Software Engineer I

The Software Engineer I will build and maintain services, APIs and internal tools, working closely with product and design. You can work from home anywhere in Canada. We have no office requirement. You can set your own hours around a daily morning check-in. Communication happens mostly in Slack and short video calls.

Job duties:

• Maintain REST and gRPC APIs used by internal teams and outside partners
• Write unit and integration tests and keep the CI pipeline green
• Ship small, frequent changes behind feature flags
• Design, build and maintain services in Python, Go or Java that handle real customer traffic
• Break down product requirements into technical tasks and rough estimates
• Debug performance problems using profilers, logs and tracing in Datadog or Grafana

About you:

• 1+ years of professional software development experience
• Ability to write clear technical documentation and explain decisions to non-engineers
• Working knowledge of testing practices: unit, integration and contract tests
• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms and basic system design
• Willing to join the on-call rotation once ramped up
• Comfortable working in Linux and on the command line

Also helpful:

• Kubernetes and Docker in production
• Contributions to open source projects
• Background in payments, fintech or another regulated domain

Benefits:

Pay: $89,000-$117,000 per year

• Extended health and dental benefits
• Group RRSP with employer matching
• Three weeks paid vacation to start
• Paid sick days
• Life insurance
• Professional development budget
• Stock options

About the company:

Sellers use the platform to list used outdoor gear, and we handle payments, shipping labels and buyer protection. Niagara Digital runs an online marketplace where homeowners book local handymen, cleaners and movers.

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Niagara Digital.