Backend Software Engineer

Summary

Join Ratehub, a leading Canadian Fintech company, as a Backend Software Engineer and play a key role in developing and enhancing our suite of web-based microservices. As a member of our remote-first mortgages team, you will collaborate with product managers, QA, and other developers to improve the financial decision-making process for millions of Canadians. You will build and evolve HTTP-based and event-driven microservices, create shared libraries, and write automated tests. Your expertise in JavaScript/TypeScript, microservices architecture, and database technologies will be crucial. Ratehub offers a competitive salary, remote-first work environment, flexible hours, comprehensive benefits, and various perks.

Requirements

• 3+ years of industry experience as a backend developer
• Experience building web-based web microservices
• Fluency with JavaScript and/or TypeScript
• Familiarity with distributed application (micro-service) architecture and best practice
• Experience integrating 3rd-party APIs within a microservices environment
• Experience with event driven services and application architecture
• Proficiency with both relational (e.g. MySQL, PostgreSQL) and document databases (e.g. MongoDB, Firebase)
• High degree of comfort with Git source code management
• Familiarity with Linux or other Unix-like environment; feeling at home in the terminal
• Curiosity and ability to learn quickly and write maintainable code
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve our suite of HTTP-based and event-driven microservices
• Create, extend and evolve shared libraries
• Write automated tests to ensure correctness and protect against regressions
• Integrate services into our observability platform, configure alerts, monitor services in production and improve them based on the data gathered
• Participate in best practice discussions and suggest improvements to our processes, libraries and ways of working
• Work with developers and other members of the business to identify improvements, suggest implementation options, trade-off alternatives, and make technical architecture decisions
• Give advice on technical issues impacting many functions across the business and discuss issues with technical teams from partner companies

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Node/Express-based microservices
• Experience with PHP
• Knowledge of interfacing with Salesforce, Filogix and/or BOSS
• Experience with kubernetes and managing infrastructure via gitops

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Remote-first organization
• Flexible hours
• Benefits: Health is wealth! A benefits package with no employee contribution required
• RRSP matching program
• Individual training allowance
• Fun team socials (remote AND in-person)