Overview
On Site
$1+
Full Time
Accepts corp to corp applications
Skills
Cloud Computing
Collaboration
Docker
Distributed Computing
Microservices
Message Broker
MySQL
Mentorship
Python
System Design
Cross-functional Team
Core Banking
Estimating
GitHub
Object-Oriented Programming
Payroll
RDBMS
RESTful
RabbitMQ
Relational Databases
SQL
Software Development
Software Engineering
Sprint
Systems Design
Technical Drafting
Job Details
Position: Sr. Backend Engineer - Microservices
Location: Toronto, ON
Type: Fulltime / Contract
We are looking for a Backend Engineer with experience in building highly scalable solutions based on microservice architecture. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be working with a highly skilled cross functional team to enhance our core banking platform.
Mandatory skills
- Python expertise
- System design experience
- SQL Experience
- Any messagebroker experience
Responsibilities and Duties
- Design and deliver high quality features and enhancements.
- Own the end-to-end delivery of large features within your team that could span 3+months.
- Create technical design specifications in collaboration with other members of the engineering team.
- Provide estimates and actively participate in the sprint planning process.
- Produce highly secure solutions.
- Tune the performance of our distributed system to ensure they operate within our SLAs.
- Peer review other engineers code.
- Mentor other engineers to create good technical solutions to problems and ship code quickly to our customers.
Qualifications and Skills
- Experience on system design, ability to articulate a good solution and a system that will scale and respond well to system failures and unexpected issues with downstream dependencies.
- Experience with cloud computing and container-based distributed systems (Docker).
- Experience working with relational databases (preferably MySQL) and high proficiency with SQL.
- Understanding of higher level RDBMS concepts (locking and transaction model, isolation levels, deadlocks, etc.).
- Significant experience with at least one dynamically typed, object-oriented programming. language (preference for Python).
- Great understanding of distributed systems and microservice architecture.
- Hands-on experience in using message brokers such as RabbitMQ.
- Deep understanding of restful API development.
- Demonstrated ability to work in a fast pace customer centric environment.
- 5+ years of experience in software development.
- Excellent communication and organization skills.
- Proven experience using code repositories such as GitHub.
- Bachelor s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent.
- Familiar with *nix like environments.
- Build and integration experience with Payroll Providers and Time & Attendance platforms is highly desirable.
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