Intermediate Software Developer, Frontend

Summary

Join Hootsuite as an Intermediate Software Developer, Frontend and design, build, test, and ship high-quality software. You will work on a small, agile team, continuously incorporating feedback to improve products and features. You will maintain established patterns and best practices to deliver high-quality work. The team owns the entire delivery lifecycle, from beta releases to production-ready, scalable products. Hootsuite offers a flexible work arrangement with remote work or a hybrid model available. This role is open to applicants in British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario, or New Brunswick and reports to the Manager, Software Development.

Requirements

• At least 3-5 years of experience in developing and maintaining software or an equivalent level of education or work experience, and a track record of substantial contributions to software projects with high business impact
• Ability to Independently maintain existing patterns and best practices in delivering code and tests in stories and epics that impact the team
• Independently use root cause analysis to identify and address bugs and outages
• Can maintain and use logging and debugging best practices across services and apps
• Independently maintain existing architecture concepts and best practices to build new components and classes or extend existing services and apps that meet system performance, modifiability, maintainability and reliability needs
• Independently maintain basic security and compliance practices in daily work
• Independently maintain agile processes and continuous integration and delivery practices to ship stories and own medium complexity epics/projects
• You can collaborate and communicate effectively within and across teams
• Participate in technical discussions, listen actively and have two-way non-technical discussions with design and product
• Independently seek guidance, feedback, and learning opportunities from across teams to foster personal and professional growth
• Support juniors and new team members growth
• Display eagerness to learn and collaborate on goal-setting
• Independent in creating goals and aligning them with personal development
• Understand business value behind roadmap projects and participate in development scoping/project analysis
• Deliver on roadmaps effectively by communicating individual and epic-level risks and opportunities
• Perseverance: pursues everything with energy, drive, and a need to finish—doesn’t give up
• Resilience, Tolerance for Change/Ambiguity: can effectively cope with change, finding ways to advance work and projects
• Customer Focus: demonstrates a desire to proactively help and serve internal/external customers meet their needs

Responsibilities

• Successfully deliver medium complexity epics within a service or front-end application, ensuring alignment with current architecture
• Coordinate and conduct rigorous integration testing to guarantee smooth interplay among diverse components
• Uphold adherence to coding and design standards, in alignment with company directives pertaining to security, accessibility, and privacy
• Autonomously triage and address bugs and outages of medium complexity
• Uphold observability standards by maintaining and refining logging dashboards, supported by senior developer assistance when necessary
• Take full responsibility for projects, collaborating closely with product and design to plan and execute effectively
• Proactively identify and escalate risks, collaborate on scope changes, and offer insights to optimize roadmap efficiency
• Establish good work relationships and participate constructively in technical discussions
• Incorporate feedback to optimize code quality, and facilitate collaborative code reviews
• Work with technologies and tools such as: TypeScript, Javascript, React, Redux, Scala, Go, Php, MongoDB, Grafana, Sumo Logic, Jira, Prometheus, Kubernetes, Terraform, Jenkins, Jest, React Testing Library, Sauce Labs, Html/CSS, Content Management System and Content Deployment Network vendors, and A/B testing tools

Preferred Qualifications

• Ideally, you have experience with Typescript, React, Redux and A/B testing tools; experience with Go (or another backend language) or enterprise CMS and CDN systems is a bonus
• Tenacious. You are determined to succeed, and you are motivated by the success of customers, colleagues and the community
• Curious. You are always learning and seeking ways to make things better
• Conscientious. You keep your promises, taking your commitments to others seriously, and you have strong integrity
• Humble. You lead with humility and empathy, respecting and learning from the perspectives of others

Benefits

• In line with Hootsuite's distributed workforce strategy, our flexible work arrangement allows for remote work or a hybrid model
• $80,700 — $113,100 CAD