Associate Software Engineer

You will also:

• Develop high-quality applications that provide a delightful user experience
• Develop clean, reusable, well-structured, and maintainable code following best practices and industry standards
• Develop elegant, responsive, high-performance, cross-platform solutions
• Develop, debug, and modify components of software applications and tools
• Write automated unit, integration, and acceptance tests as appropriate to support our continuous integration pipelines
• Contribute to team efforts on support and troubleshoot data and/or system issues as needed
• Participate in and learn from code and design reviews
• Participate in user story creation in collaboration with the team
• Work with team members to develop prototypes as necessary and validate ideas with a data-driven approach.

• Post-graduate diploma in a related field such as Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Applied Mathematics, or Applied Sciences; a Software Development bootcamp certificate; or equivalent professional experience.
• No professional experience is required
• Experience using code versioning tools such as Git
• Experience with application development in modern object-oriented programming languages
• Experience working with and understanding of RESTful APIs
• Understanding of SQL or other relational data storage technologies
• Working knowledge of applicable development tools, technologies, design patterns, and best practices
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Excellent time management skills with a proven ability to meet deadlines.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to function well in a high-paced and at times stressful environment.

Experience that would be a plus:

• Experience with modern JavaScript development
• Understanding of Unit Testing Frameworks and best practices
• Understanding of Realtime Data Streaming (e.g. Kafka, Kinesis)
• Understanding of Serverless Computing (e.g. AWS cloud services)
• Understanding of AWS Messaging Services (e.g. SNS SQS)
• Understanding of DevOps and CI/CD tools (e.g. Jenkins / Bamboo)
• Understanding of Agile Methodology and Practices
• Understanding of NoSQL/Non-relational Databases