IT Developer

Summary

Join D2L's Talent Acquisition team as an IT Developer and contribute to building high-quality, scalable, and secure software solutions. You will collaborate with stakeholders, create and maintain software code, perform code reviews, and support developed software. The ideal candidate possesses strong coding skills, a curious and investigative spirit, and a commitment to continuous learning. D2L values collaboration, problem-solving, and strategic thinking. The role offers a competitive salary, benefits including a wellness subsidy, equity grants, and variable incentives, and opportunities for professional development.

Requirements

• Possess a curious and investigative spirit
• Demonstrate commitment to self-improvement, an eagerness to adopt new skills and technologies, and a passion for fostering a culture of shared knowledge and growth
• Ability to respectfully disagree with others and actively participate in healthy debate
• Make decisions based on individual, team, department, or organizational priorities, using judgment to make decisions appropriate to both short- and long-term goals
• Demonstrate clear and effective verbal and written communication with coworkers, both real time and asynchronously, and know when to use which mode of communication
• Be a person that others want to work with, care about clients, other team members, and other stakeholders' needs. Balance knowledge and goals to effectively collaborate intra-team as well as between teams or departments/divisions. Know when it’s appropriate to receive and give assistance to other team members
• Consistently pay attention to details and notice even when small things are incorrect
• Demonstrate consistent problem-solving skills, be adept at deconstructing complex issues, leveraging data for decision-making, and innovating creative solutions beyond conventional options
• Apply existing knowledge, think ahead and then pull in other people as appropriate and solve future problems before they exist
• Demonstrate proficiency in core technologies leveraged (i.e.: SQL, AWS, Azure, etc.)
• Actively learn and adopt the technology and tools defined by the team
• Consistently push new features and bug fixes to improve and extend the system
• Read code effectively to reason out where a bug lies, know where to begin investigations into problems and take a pragmatic approach
• Work with team members to understand how to architect their code
• Understand security best practices and implement best practices as required
• Understand PII and how we need to handle private data
• Follow existing and create new patterns to improve data/knowledge organization across team, department, and company as a whole

Responsibilities

• Build and support high quality, high performing, scalable and secure solutions, while solving both technical and non-technical challenges
• Create, maintain, upgrade, and implement software code, coding guidelines, tools, processes, and metrics
• Perform code reviews, based on industry best practices
• Contribute to team processes and actively participate in analysis, with ability to communicate technical information across teams
• Learn required technologies, standards and methodologies as required
• Support developed software as required, iterating on technical designs, and playing a role in deployment and addressing technical issues

Preferred Qualifications

• Desire to build and refine. Know when to build things well and when to build things quickly
• Have a strong focus on delivering high quality code and features
• Experience with source control (GitHub) and working in CI/CD environments (GitHub Actions)
• Experience with Cloud Hosting (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, etc.) and infrastructure-as-Code, such as Terraform or CloudFormation
• Strong Computer Science fundamentals including OO design, data structures, algorithms, databases, distributed systems, security, caching, human computer interaction

Benefits

• Wellness Subsidy
• Equity Grants
• Variable Incentive
• Flexible work arrangements
• Learning and Growth opportunities
• Tuition reimbursement of up to $4,000 CAD for continuing education through our Catch the Wave Program
• 2 Paid Days off for Catch the Wave related activities like exams or final assignments
• Employee wellbeing (Access to mental health services, EFAP program, financial planning and more)
• Retirement planning
• 2 Paid Volunteer Days
• Competitive Benefits Package
• Home Internet Reimbursements
• Employee Referral Program
• Wellness Reimbursement
• Employee Recognition
• Social Events
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