NOD-019 Senior Software Developer Lead - Checkout and Payments

Canada-wide Remote

Our client is looking for a Senior Developer to join their Checkout & Payment team. The Senior Developer will take complex features of the product roadmap, break them down into their required technical components, and develop them independently.

The ideal candidate will own at least one component of the technical stack and holds accountability for its SLAs. They will actively contribute to knowledge dissemination within the organization, participate in the recruiting and onboarding of new employees, and mentor Junior Developers on the team.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Product delivery

  • Develop a deep understanding of the product roadmap for the squad, including future features to be developed
  • Contribute to high-level estimation and participate in laying out the development sequences, challenging the product roadmap and identifying areas where technical debt can be reduced or avoided
  • Complete independently complex development tasks and actively contribute to pushing code to production Write testable, efficient, and reusable code suitable for continuous integration and deployment, respecting best practices and SSENSE development standards
  • Review Unified Modeling Language (UML) diagrams and technical documentation

Ownership and accountability

  • Be accountable for code quality, with the assistance of a QA Analyst, by conducting adequate testing Be accountable for performance, reliability, scalability and resilience of at least one technical component owned by the squad through SLAs and monitoring
  • Contribute to cross-squad initiatives, acting as a change agent amongst peers to foster adoption of new processes or technical solutions
  • Knowledge sharing and coaching
  • Review Pull Requests with the objective to guide and upskill junior developers on various technical topics Actively contribute to SSENSE University, the internal peer learning platform, to promote continuous learning Participate in the onboarding of new developers

Architecture

  • Contribute to solution designs, challenging other members on technical decisions and explaining the technical design to junior developers so as to write documentation.

Recruiting

  • Participate in HR recruiting events, helping to identify and recruit top developers

QUALIFICATIONS

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, Master’s degree an asset 6+ years of software development experience
  • Able to code complex features with Typescript (Node.js/Vue.js)
  • Experience with Kubernetes
  • Experience with Microservices
  • Understand event-driven architecture & pub/sub pattern
  • Experience developing backend services
  • Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases at scale
  • Confident with the development of REST APIs
  • Able to write different levels of tests (Unit, Contract, Integration, E2E, TDD)
  • Proficiency in Git
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills in English, French an asset
  • Familiarity with AWS is an asset
  • Experience with DDD (Domain Driven Development)