Software Engineer

Summary

Join FreshBooks as a Software Engineer and contribute to building and improving our cloud-based accounting application. You will collaborate with a team of developers, designers, and product owners to create a seamless user experience. This role offers the opportunity to work on real-world applications with a meaningful impact on customers. The position can be remote. FreshBooks provides a supportive and flexible work environment with various benefits and opportunities for professional growth. We are committed to diversity and inclusion and provide employment accommodation during the recruitment process.

Requirements

• 2+ years of experience in web application development
• Experience writing and working with REST APIs
• Experience in Python (our core back-end technologies)
• Experience working with JavaScript frameworks such as Ember.js, ReactJS
• Experience with MySQL or other relational databases
• Experience writing code with unit tests for great code coverage
• Experience working with large codebases and writing robust and testable code
• Familiarity with continuous integration and automated build pipelines
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, Terraform, or other similar tools
• Experience using github, reviewing code, reviewing PRs, and merging branches

Responsibilities

• Build real-world applications that have a meaningful impact on customers
• Make sound decisions even in the absence of complete information, and recognize when to over-engineer and when not to
• Design and develop application technologies that optimize solution operation and minimize maintenance overhead
• Collaborate with full-stack and mobile developers on cross-functional agile teams working on features for our customers
• Work closely with UX designers and Product owners to ensure the best web experience for our customers
• Contribute to a large codebase that contains a multitude of customer features
• Participate and share your ideas in technical design and architecture discussions
• Ship your code with our continuous integration process
• Develop your craft and build your expertise in full-stack web development

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in Scrum or Agile environment
• Experience with cloud architecture and design patterns
• Familiarity with continuous integration (or better, continuous delivery) and automated build pipelines
• Experience with some of the following technologies: Redis and ElasticSearch, Flask, FastAPI, RabbitMQ, Google Pub/Sub, Celery, Docker, and GCP

Benefits

• Comprehensive health and wellness benefits. Including a retirement savings program or pension plan matched to your local office, stock options for every full-time employee, generous time off, parental leave and new parent support, annual healthy living credit, comprehensive medical and dental benefits, fertility and gender-affirming benefits dependent on your region, and more
• Perks that matter. Including a Peer Recognition Program, an Employee Assistance Program, headphone credit, meaningful in-person gatherings to bring onsite and remote employees together, and more perks matched to your local cluster
• Working environments to help you thrive. Beautiful office spaces welcome you in Toronto, Amsterdam, and San Luis Potosi. If you don't have access to a FreshBooks office, you receive a home office credit to set up your home office. We are committed to creating supportive and flexible environments to support the best interests of the team, collaboration, and mental well-being
• Supportive peer group, mentors, and leaders . We care about each other across the organization and have programs to support this so everyone feels a strong sense of belonging, and believes in collective impact
• Accelerated growth. Comprehensive company onboarding, career development through continuous coaching, training, and learning on the job