Intermediate Full-Stack Engineer

Location: Markham, Ontario

Job Description:

Essential Duties

Design, develop, and maintain scalable and high-performance backend systems.

Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements and translate them into technical solutions.

Create and maintain robust and efficient APIs for seamless integration with other systems and services.

Implement and optimize SQL queries and database interactions to ensure data integrity and efficiency.

Develop and integrate Microservices architecture to enhance the overall system reliability and scalability.

Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback to team members.

Implement security best practices to protect sensitive data and maintain compliance with industry standards.

Enforce and adopt coding standards and best practices, producing high-quality, testable and maintainable code.

Write concise and efficient documentation of system implementation, APIs and, codebase.

Troubleshoot and resolve issues in a timely manner to ensure seamless operation of our e-commerce platform.

Stay current with industry trends and technologies to contribute to the continuous improvement of our systems.

Implementation of effective logging for debugging and analysis.

Proficiency in a Backend Language: Such as Java, Python, Ruby, Node.js, PHP, C#, or others, depending on the tech stack.

Experience with Multiple Languages: Ability to work with more than one language, as some projects or systems may use different technologies.

API Development: RESTful and/or GraphQL APIs for Design and implementation of APIs for communication between different components of the system

Experience, Education, Certifications

Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.

Minimum 5 years work experience in Back End Integrations, Microservices, SW Development.

Experience with and ability to conduct and participate in code reviews.

Ability to analyze complex technical problems and propose effective solutions.

Proficient in debugging and troubleshooting issues in a timely manner.

Knowledge of APM tools like Prometheus, Grafana, or others for system monitoring along with SonarQube for Code maintenance and DevOps CI/CD practices

Experience with tools like Jira, Confluence, Slack, or others.

Effective communication within the development team and with other stakeholders.

Web Development Frameworks like Spring (Java), Express (Node.js), (Next.js) ASP.NET (C#), Laravel (PHP), Django (Python), Ruby on Rails (Ruby),

Proficiency in working with relational databases (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server) and NoSQL databases (e.g., MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis).

Competencies

Excellent Analytical Thinking and Problem-Solving Skills to understand complex situations, develop and implement a logical approach to a technical problem with well documented and thought out solutioning.

Strong communication and collaboration skills.

Effective collaboration within cross-functional teams.

Writing clear and comprehensive technical documentation

SDLC proficiency and knowledge with logic based reasoning and technical problem investigation that can be explained to leadership and business users. Familiarity with Agile development methodologies and Scrum practices.

Server Management expertise: Deployment and Orchestration: Knowledge of tools like Docker, GKE: Kubernetes, or others for containerization and orchestration.

Cloud Services: Expertise with cloud platforms specifically Google Cloud, AWS & Azure

A passion for learning, desire to stay up to date with emerging technologies.

Accountability - Consistently delivers quality work on time, with excellent attention to detail which ensures the accuracy of their results. Also has the mindset to be a proactive self-starter with an 'owner's mindset'.

Interpersonal Savvy - Relates well to all kinds of people, up, down, and sideways, inside and outside the organization; builds appropriate rapport; builds constructive and effective relationships; uses diplomacy and tact; can diffuse even high-tension situations comfortably

Technical Skills

Proven experience as a Backend Developer, with a focus on Java, SQL, and/or .NET technologies.

Solid understanding and hands-on experience with Microservices architecture, including but not limited to containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).

Setting up and maintaining automated build and deployment pipelines

Understanding and implementation of queues for asynchronous processing.

Proficiency in database design, optimization, and management using SQL Server, MySQL, or similar databases.

Strong knowledge of backend technologies, databases, and server infrastructure.

Experience with RESTful API design and development.

Code Reviews, Walkthroughs, Pull Requests, Peer Reviews & In-depth analysis and validation on complex enterprise and cloud architectures with 80+ integrations.

Understanding of Security Best Practices: Including secure coding, data protection, and authentication/authorization mechanisms, SSL/TLS Protocols: Knowledge of securing data in transit.

Proficient in using Git for version control, branching, and merging.

Code Profiling Ability to identify and optimize performance bottlenecks.

Caching Strategies: Implementation of caching mechanisms for improved performance.

Unit Testing Experience across most frameworks and Integration Testing of the same

Basic understanding of front-end technologies to facilitate collaboration with front-end developers.

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