Senior Full-Stack Platform Software Developer

Summary

Join Hootsuite's specialized DevOps team as a Senior Full-Stack Platform Software Developer. You will be responsible for the network edge, client authorization, Kafka clusters, encryption, and API tooling of our large, cloud-based platform. This role requires significant backend development and DevOps experience, with collaboration with frontend teams. The position offers a flexible work arrangement with remote or hybrid options in British Columbia or Alberta. You will report to the Manager, Software Development, Dev-Ops and contribute to a team using Go, Scala, and PHP, along with various AWS services. The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of JavaScript, TypeScript, and React.

Requirements

• Have a degree in Computer Science or Engineering, and at least 5 years of experience in an SRE, DevOps or software engineering role and a track record of substantial contributions to software projects with high business impact
• Have experience with mentoring, coaching, and pairing with coworkers
• Have experience writing clean code that performs well at scale and an understanding of SaaS software development practice
• Have experience using infrastructure-as-code tools to build and run cloud infrastructure
• Have experience in backend, devops and frontend development, ideally with experience in creating tools and services for other developers
• Demonstrate Collaboration and Teamwork: work with others to deliver results, meaningfully contributing to the team and prioritizing group needs over individual needs
• Demonstrate Creativity and Innovation: seek new and better ways of doing things, generating original and imaginative ideas, products, and/or solutions
• Demonstrate Problem Solving: use an organized and logical approach to find solutions to complex problems and look beyond the obvious to understand the root cause of problems and propose several possible solutions
• Demonstrate Resilience, Tolerance for Change/Ambiguity: effectively cope with change, finding ways to advance work and projects

Responsibilities

• Design and build software - tools, libraries, automation, services
• Be responsible for the reliability, security, and integrity of our large, cloud-based platform
• Practice continuous improvement, contributing to culture, process, and direction in your team and across our department
• Develop processes and automation to eliminate repetitive tasks
• Design and build our platform
• Identify and implement new platform features
• Research and evaluate new technologies
• Refactor, rewrite or retire existing platform features
• Operate our platform services
• Respond to incidents
• Diagnose and repair bugs
• Perform maintenance, upgrades, and migrations
• Control or eliminate repetitive tasks, alert noise, and business-as-usual work
• Enable development teams
• Provide executable interfaces to our platform
• Provide tools and best practices to support the entire software development lifecycle
• Work collaboratively within the team and across the organization to solve difficult and exciting cross-portfolio problems
• Get involved with various cross-portfolio developer groups in the org to help promote good practices and set better standards for other dev teams to follow
• Communicate by mentoring, writing documentation, participating in meetings, and sharing your work at demos

Preferred Qualifications

Have experience working on a SaaS product

Benefits

• Flexible work arrangement allows for remote work or a hybrid model
• Accommodations will be provided as requested by candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process