Office Location: Fully remote only Canada If the resource is in Toronto GTA (1 day in office at Downtown Toronto) Contract Duration: 6 Months FTE Opportunity: Yes Extension Opportunity: Yes, depending on budget and performance Hours: Monday-Friday, 9-5 PM (7.5 hours/day) Daily responsibilities: Take ownership of your work and deliver scalable, robust, and polished products for end users. - Gather and refine business requirements and transform them into concise technical specifications. Perform independent research and design efficient solutions which meet specifications and adhere to the industry''s best practices and organizational policies. Develop existing and new software products with the goal of providing an outstanding service for our customers. Communicate ideas verbally and in writing with the team while making it a practice to document designs, deliverables, as well as any other pertinent information such as operational and support runbooks and processes. Derive data insights and apply them to address business opportunities. Must have: 10+ years of work experience in software engineering, and/or full-stack development. 5-7 Years of Python experience (e.g., Flask, FastAPI) 5 years of experience with DevOps and Cloud technologies. E.g., GCP (preferred), AWS, or Azure. 5-7 years of experience working with databases and key-value data stores (e.g., MongoDB, Redis, PostgreSQL). 5-7 Years of experience with Docker/Docker Compose, Kubernetes, and Linux Nice to have: Work experience with programming and scripting languages such as Bash preferred (other languages also accepted). Experience writing/maintaining Helm Charts (preferable) and working with other IT Automation software (e.g., Ansible, Terraform) is a strong plus. Experience with building/using CI/CD pipelines (e.g., ArgoWF/ArgoCD) is a plus. Experience with using a message broker-like service (e.g., RabbitMQ, Kafka, bonus points for GCP Pub/Sub). Experience with modern JavaScript, NodeJS, Express, React/Redux, and related toolsets. Best vs. Average Candidate: The best candidate will have a clean, error-free resume and avoid generic descriptions of their experience. They should provide detailed examples of how they used technology to solve problems within their organization. Candidate includes a link to their GitHub, which demonstrates consistent, high-quality work on real projects, not just tutorials or project forks. Has GitHub stars and badges/achievements The best candidate is coming from technology companies instead of financial or banking. Candidate Review & Selection 1st round MS Teams video interview HM (45 minutes) with Hiring manager and Technical team member o Introductions with HM, technical questions and discuss project details. 2nd round MS Teams video interview Panel with technical team (1.5 hours) o Discuss the candidates skills/experience and gauge the depth of their knowledge, behavioral questions. o technical questions o Assess match for team culture
Job Title
Software Engineer