Senior Software Engineer (Back End)

What’s in it for you as an employee of QFG?

• Health & wellbeing resources and programs 
• Paid vacation and personal days for work-life balance
• Competitive compensation and benefits packages
• Flexible work arrangements
• Career growth and development opportunities
• Opportunities to participate and contribute to community causes
• Work with diverse team members in an inclusive and collaborative environments

What’s it like working as a Senior Software Engineer at Questrade?

The Software Engineer is experienced in developing high performing and scalable applications that deliver business value. This position will be involved in small to large scale projects through all stages of the software development life cycle from requirements gathering to implementation. This person will collaborate with the user interface and experience teams, other back-end and front-end developers and architects to deliver great applications.

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• Be a forward-thinking technologist who is continuously researching new approaches to problems and discussing them with others in a productive manner, in a community of practice setting.

• Implement and test customer-facing and internal web applications, with stronger focus on back end components but also getting involved in some potential front- end work.

• Be actively involved in implementing new application features and functionality, improving scalability and maintainability.

• Support a complex and hybrid (cloud and on-premises) infrastructure environment;

• Meet regularly and interact productively with a diverse team of business stakeholders, user interface and experience designers, architects, engineers as needed to elicit, define, analyze and document requirements and principles for new applications.

• Ensure timely escalation of issues that are blocking oneself or the team.
• Help the team support applications built in production, addressing issues in a timely fashion, respecting agreed upon service level objectives.

• Comply with the standards, best practices, documented software processes and procedures throughout the life cycle of software products.

• Participate in code reviews and unit testing practices.
• If there is need, participate in research and proof of concepts, ensuring the value is documented and socialized.

• Share knowledge and lessons learned with others in the organization.
• Apply knowledge of the technology industry trends to help Questrade to improve and build innovative products.

So are YOU our next Senior Software Engineer? You are if…

• Web: REST APIs written using Microservices in .NET Core and Node.js, C#, WPF, MVVM, WCF.

• Data: SQL Server, Google Cloud Firestore, MongoDB, Redis Cache, MemSQL.
• Tools: GitLab, Jira, Confluence, preferably automated CI/CD.
• Streaming (Nice to have): Google Pub/Sub, Kafka, RabbitMQ
• Infrastructure (Nice to have): Google Kubernetes Engine, and other Google Cloud Platform components.

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