Senior Software Engineer

Toronto

Our client is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join its Scrum-based agile software engineering team. The Engineer will be primarily responsible for creating and maintaining a variety of applications built on a React, NodeJS, and Python stack.

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You are:

• Passionate about growing your skills, learning new technologies, tackling interesting work and challenging problems

• Committed to continuous learning and always expanding your skillset

• Excited about being part of an organizational transformation where technology is

  a major driver

• Focused on maximizing the delivery of business value

• Someone who takes pride in and ownership of the things you build

  Primary responsibilities and duties:

• Lead whole team, whiteboarding sessions to design solutions that focus on scalability, performance, usability, and extensibility

• Define and evolve design patterns that improve code readability and maintainability

• Write clean code with accompanying unit and e2e tests for a variety of digital products

• Be part of a dynamic team that is based on Agile principles – self-managing teams, continuous improvement, and iterative development

• Work with a team whose focus is to create a best-in-class product and user experience

Qualifications and skills:

• Expertise in JavaScript(React), Python(Django) or Node(Express)

• Working knowledge of software design patterns, such as Reactive Programming,

  MV*, VIPER, etc.

• Solid understanding RESTful services

• Experience in Behavior or Test Driven Development (TDD or BDD) and agile

  methodologies

• Strong oral and written communication skills

   

Preferred experience

• 3-5 years of industry experience

• A history of making open source contributions

• Contribution to the engineering body of knowledge through blogs or other articles