Software Developer

Software Developer

Location: Toronto, ON (Hybrid)

 

Software Development & Design

•                     Design, develop, enhance, and maintain enterprise applications and integrations.

•                     Produce clean, maintainable, secure, and scalable code following established standards and best practices.

•                     Participate in solution design discussions and contribute to technical decision-making.

•                     Analyze business and technical requirements and translate them into effective software solutions.

•                     Identify opportunities to simplify, refactor, and improve existing codebases.

Testing & Quality

•                     Develop and maintain unit, integration, and component tests.

•                     Ensure new and modified code meets team-established test coverage standards.

•                     Collaborate closely with QA Analysts to reduce defects and improve overall quality.

•                     Perform code reviews and incorporate feedback from peers.

•                     Troubleshoot and resolve issues identified during testing and production support.

DevOps & Delivery

•                     Participate in CI/CD processes and deployment activities.

•                     Contribute to build, release, and automation pipelines.

•                     Support production deployments, rollback strategies, and post-deployment validation.

•                     Monitor application health and assist with operational support when required.

System Comprehension & Problem Solving

•                     Develop a strong understanding of application architecture, integrations, data flows, and dependencies.

•                     Investigate production and non-production issues using logs, monitoring tools, and debugging techniques.

•                     Analyze root causes and implement sustainable solutions.

•                     Assess technical risks and recommend mitigation strategies.

Documentation & Knowledge Sharing

•                     Create and maintain technical documentation, runbooks, architecture diagrams, and support procedures.

•                     Document configuration changes, deployment processes, integrations, and environment-specific settings.

•                     Share knowledge with team members through code reviews, documentation, and collaborative sessions.

•                     Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives and development standards.

Collaboration & Communication

•                     Work effectively with cross-functional teams including Business Analysts, QA Analysts, Architects, and Operations teams.

•                     Participate in Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives.

•                     Communicate progress, risks, blockers, and dependencies proactively.

•                     Contribute positively to team discussions and foster a collaborative working environment.

Required Qualifications

Education

•                     Degree, diploma, or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or related field.

Experience

•                     5+ years of professional software development experience.

•                     Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.

•                     Experience supporting enterprise business applications.

Technical Skills

Experience with several of the following:

•                     C# / .NET Framework / .NET Core

•                     ASP.NET MVC and/or ASP.NET Core

•                     REST APIs, Web services, Broker Messaging, etc.

•                     Understanding of Distributed Systems

•                     SQL Server and relational databases

•                     JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, CSS

•                     Azure DevOps or similar DevOps platforms

•                     Git source control

•                     CI/CD pipelines

•                     Unit testing frameworks

•                     Object-oriented design principles

•                     Secure software development practices

Preferred Experience

•                     Sitecore CMS

•                     LMS (Moodle), CRM (e.g. Aptify, Salesforce), or similar systems

•                     Identity and Authentication solutions (SSO, OAuth, OpenID Connect, Auth0)

•                     Integration development

•                     Enterprise application modernization initiatives