Senior Software Engineer
Apply NowCompany: Achievers
Location: Toronto, ON M4E 3Y1
Description:
About Achievers
The "Achievers Employee Experience Platform" empowers employees to recognize each other in real time and aligns them to the values and goals of the company. With almost 4 million global users, the Employee Experience Platform enables employees in over 170 countries. Visit us at www.achievers.com to learn more, and check out our platform in action here. Join us in our mission to Change the Way the World Works!
Our commitment to you:
At Achievers, we hire you for you because we value the unique perspective and individuality that each person brings to our team. We are committed to creating an inclusive, diverse, and equitable workplace where you belong, and your contributions are celebrated. You'll have the opportunity to collaborate with a diverse group of colleagues who appreciate your strengths and are excited to learn from your experiences.
We are seeking a talented Senior Software Engineer to join our growing Data Infrastructure team. In this role, you will leverage your past experiences and deep understanding of data warehousing and data lake concepts to help shape and execute Achievers's roadmap technologies to design, develop, and maintain our data pipelines on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). You will collaborate closely with Data Architects and Data Scientists to translate business needs into robust and scalable data solutions.
Responsibilities:
Qualifications:
Why you'll love working at Achievers:
We are passionate about disruptive technology that's rooted in science, research and data.
We understand the value of employee success in the workplace and have been recognized in numerous publications for our contributions to HR, for technical excellence, and for our outstanding workplace culture!
We foster an environment of connection, security, and community. You'll feel at home, without reservation.
We believe in moving quickly, failing fast, and adapting to change.
We enjoy coming to work every day because we believe in our product and love our culture.
We're committed to achieving excellence in everything we do.
Benefits & Perks for permanent full time employees:
Competitive Pay
Parental Leave Top-up
Health Benefits and Life Insurance Coverage Upon Your First Day
RRSP Matching
Flexible Vacation
Employee and Family Assistance Program
Full access to the LinkedIn Learning Library
Internal Mentorship Program
Employee-Led Employee Resource Groups
A beautiful office space located in Liberty Village, Toronto CA
Participation in our Points-based Employee Recognition Program
Opportunities for professional development and career growth
Our work environment:
Achievers is a hybrid-first company located at 99 Atlantic Ave in Liberty Village, Toronto. Our hybrid work experience is designed to cultivate an engaging employee experience, where pioneering research intersects with cutting-edge technology. We strongly believe that collocating teams increases the chance to innovate together, foster passive learning, create spontaneous connections, and promote better communication.
Achievers does not offer employment to prospects without first ensuring that qualified candidates speak directly with the hiring manager and a member of our HR team. All qualification will be done face-to-face, whether that is in person or over Zoom. Achievers does not send out offers of employment without meeting candidates and does not offer employment via text. If you are requested for any personal information via text and/or without having met a member of our hiring team in person, please disregard.
Our employees are a diverse and inclusive team of passionate, hardworking individuals. Achievers is committed to creating an environment where our employees can do the best work of their lives. We encourage all qualified candidates to apply to join our A-Player family. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.
Achievers is an equal opportunity employer. We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds and experiences.
Achievers is committed to ensuring an inclusive and accessible recruitment process for all candidates. If you require any accommodations for your interview, such as assistive technology, wheelchair accessibility, or alternative formats of materials, please let us know. We are happy to make necessary arrangements to support your needs.
The "Achievers Employee Experience Platform" empowers employees to recognize each other in real time and aligns them to the values and goals of the company. With almost 4 million global users, the Employee Experience Platform enables employees in over 170 countries. Visit us at www.achievers.com to learn more, and check out our platform in action here. Join us in our mission to Change the Way the World Works!
Our commitment to you:
At Achievers, we hire you for you because we value the unique perspective and individuality that each person brings to our team. We are committed to creating an inclusive, diverse, and equitable workplace where you belong, and your contributions are celebrated. You'll have the opportunity to collaborate with a diverse group of colleagues who appreciate your strengths and are excited to learn from your experiences.
We are seeking a talented Senior Software Engineer to join our growing Data Infrastructure team. In this role, you will leverage your past experiences and deep understanding of data warehousing and data lake concepts to help shape and execute Achievers's roadmap technologies to design, develop, and maintain our data pipelines on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). You will collaborate closely with Data Architects and Data Scientists to translate business needs into robust and scalable data solutions.
Responsibilities:
- Use the right tool for the job. We love modern technology/framework and use things like Python, Go, PHP, GCP, pubsub, Kubernetes, Microservices, React, Redux, and Micro frontends, and more
- Lead and manage delivery for a full stack software engineering team
- Manage team's SCRUM process, including sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives and help the team and Product Manager with the backlog items (user story writing, estimation and priority assignment)
- Help the team achieve its agreed-upon goals
- Coach the team and individuals for continuous increased performance
- Take ownership of the various areas of the software/product delivery
- Stay up to date on emerging technologies and corporate engineering guidelines, best practices, processes and tools, and be a mentor to the team members
- Collaborate with other teams to proactively identify and manage dependencies
- Remove roadblocks, and advise and escalate issues as needed
- Hands-on with our codebase and deeply involved in code reviews
- Possess good intuition for code quality and rarely needs supervision/feedback/guidance on syntax/convention to improve code quality/style. Delivers projects in accordance to acceptance criteria with scalability design concerns in focus
- Continuously integrate clean, scalable, robust, testable code
- Support cross functional teams as the subject matter expert of our domain
- See all solutions through a security lens and make our solutions safe from get go
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's in computer science or Masters in Computer Science or related field
- 6+ years' experience with a software development experience in enterprise-level environment
- Experience with agile development methodologies including Scrum and Kanban
- Experience in coaching and people management
- Proficient in web frameworks and server-side language such as Python, PHP, Ruby, Java, Javascript, etc.
- Proficient in a relational and NoSQL databases such as MySQL and MongoDB
- Willingness to learn new emerging technologies and keep up with the latest frameworks and APIs
- Interest in microservices and deployment in Google Cloud
- Comfortable in a UNIX / Linux environment
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to interact and clearly explain complex technical language to technical and non-technical teams and varying levels of staff
- Confident in object modelling and OOP concepts
- Confident in data modeling and database design concepts
- Advanced/professional verbal and written English language skills
Why you'll love working at Achievers:
We are passionate about disruptive technology that's rooted in science, research and data.
We understand the value of employee success in the workplace and have been recognized in numerous publications for our contributions to HR, for technical excellence, and for our outstanding workplace culture!
We foster an environment of connection, security, and community. You'll feel at home, without reservation.
We believe in moving quickly, failing fast, and adapting to change.
We enjoy coming to work every day because we believe in our product and love our culture.
We're committed to achieving excellence in everything we do.
Benefits & Perks for permanent full time employees:
Competitive Pay
Parental Leave Top-up
Health Benefits and Life Insurance Coverage Upon Your First Day
RRSP Matching
Flexible Vacation
Employee and Family Assistance Program
Full access to the LinkedIn Learning Library
Internal Mentorship Program
Employee-Led Employee Resource Groups
A beautiful office space located in Liberty Village, Toronto CA
Participation in our Points-based Employee Recognition Program
Opportunities for professional development and career growth
Our work environment:
Achievers is a hybrid-first company located at 99 Atlantic Ave in Liberty Village, Toronto. Our hybrid work experience is designed to cultivate an engaging employee experience, where pioneering research intersects with cutting-edge technology. We strongly believe that collocating teams increases the chance to innovate together, foster passive learning, create spontaneous connections, and promote better communication.
Achievers does not offer employment to prospects without first ensuring that qualified candidates speak directly with the hiring manager and a member of our HR team. All qualification will be done face-to-face, whether that is in person or over Zoom. Achievers does not send out offers of employment without meeting candidates and does not offer employment via text. If you are requested for any personal information via text and/or without having met a member of our hiring team in person, please disregard.
Our employees are a diverse and inclusive team of passionate, hardworking individuals. Achievers is committed to creating an environment where our employees can do the best work of their lives. We encourage all qualified candidates to apply to join our A-Player family. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.
Achievers is an equal opportunity employer. We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds and experiences.
Achievers is committed to ensuring an inclusive and accessible recruitment process for all candidates. If you require any accommodations for your interview, such as assistive technology, wheelchair accessibility, or alternative formats of materials, please let us know. We are happy to make necessary arrangements to support your needs.