Backend Engineer
| Company | BuildOps |
|---|---|
| Location | Toronto, ON, Canada |
| Salary | $Not Provided – $Not Provided |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | Bachelor’s, Master’s, PhD |
| Experience Level | Mid Level |
Requirements
- Equivalent of 3+ years of experience in software engineering roles (designing APIs, integrations, platforms, and tools used by other engineers)
- Write modern JavaScript/ECMAScript code that is clean, well-tested, and reusable
- Strong communication and technical writing skills
- Strong experience with React.js to develop and test applications/components that work optimistically in a production environment
- Strong experience with Node.js using GraphQL API using Apollo
- B.S., M.S. or PhD from top university in computer science, engineering or related fields
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain our backend platform with real-time, event-driven systems, services, and features
- Write quality code with high test coverage and documentation
- Develop, support, and improve our GraphQL and REST APIs
- Promote, teach, and enforce our documentation standards
- Propose recommendations, build prototypes, and provide feedback
- Work in tandem with the QA engineering team to ship quality and high-precision software
- Co-own the short and long-term technical vision of your squad with your teammates
- Provide technical mentorship and guidance to engineers within your team and others
- Help improve the technical quality of our work through regular technical design, code reviews and automated testing
- Share your technical knowledge and expertise
- Communicate effectively with engineers, product managers, customers, partners, and other leaders
Preferred Qualifications
- Prior knowledge or ability to quickly learn developing in a CI/CD environment preferred
- Prior knowledge or familiarity with Python for back-end development a plus
- Familiarity with Jest, unit testing, debugging, profiling, performance monitoring