Role description
Job Title: Specialist - Software Engineering (Java Backend Engineer)
Work Location- Toronto, Ontario (CA)
Job Description:
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 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
Handson experience in using message brokers such as RabbitMQ
Deep understanding of restful API development
Demonstrated ability to work in a fast-paced customer centric environment
5 years of experience in software development
Excellent communication and organizational 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
