Senior Software Engineer – Fully Remote Canada

Exclusive opportunities have just arrived on our desk from our client, a market-leading Software company that has completely dominated its industry through its innovation and technical excellence. Working with the business’s customers, this role requires an experienced Software Engineer to work with the development teams on the next generation of marketable platforms.

These particular roles will need someone who can develop new features and functionality for high transaction, large scale platforms and product suites for Global customers. Liaising often with Business Analysts, business stakeholders – This requires someone who is comfortable speaking to both technical and non-technical persons surrounding their enquiries in small, medium and large-scale projects across the wider business. Being part of an Agile team, the aim is to produce robust, clear and high standards of code using practises such as Test-Driven-Development (TDD) and to extract and capture customer requirements using Behaviour-Driven-Development (BDD).

Skills/experience required:

• Excellent communication skills – At tech and non-technical levels for queries and issue resolving
• Participating in code reviews
• Designing solutions that are modular, scalable and portable
• Investigate and develop further improvements to the platforms
• Develop and resolve any issues raised within the platform
• Improving overall system architecture and design accordingly
• Demonstrable experience in at least one major language such as Java, C/C++ or PHP
• A talent in writing and using algorithms 
• Assessing time complexities and performance
• Application performance tuning
• Coaching less experienced Software Engineers
• A customer-centric approach and an openness to help customers when they require ad hoc support
• Agile development exposure
• Developing on Unix/Linux
• Bash, Perl, Python and JS scripting exposure
• Knowledge on CI / CD + Assoc tools
• Apache, SOAP, WS8*, ReST,, XML, HTTP, TCP/IP, WebSockets
• HTML5, Javascript, CSS

This role will give exposure to large, high transactional platforms, offering excellent experience and exposure. The role also offers training and although you are experienced, offers coaching and mentorship in an incredibly open and flexible environment. 

Despite remote working, the culture and team are sociable and this really is the opportunity to not be missed.

Permanent - $105,000 CAD + Holiday and multiple benefits

Location – Fully remote within Canada or from either Montreal or Vancouver

 If you would like further information, please get in touch – We would love to hear from you.