Back End Developer

Seeking a Back End Developer eager to join our growing team. You will help build new features and improve existing functionality for our industry-leading analytics platform. As a member of the development team, you will help design, create and test beautiful software that has a meaningful and immediate impact on our growing customer base. If you’re committed to great work and are constantly looking for ways to improve the systems you are responsible for, then we’d love to hear from you.

What you’ll do:

• Gain an understanding of the real-world problems of our users to help us build a great product that exceeds the expectations of our customers
• Collaborate with product management to understand, design, and implement new product features that help our customers make better sense of their retail data
• Write well-tested and maintainable code for internal services and our customer-facing web application
• Define best practices and patterns to help us scale our platform
• Deploy and run software in Amazon Web Services

What you’ll need:

• A solid understanding of functional programming – we use Scala, Elixir and Erlang extensively but aren’t picky about where you’re coming from
• Experience building service-oriented architectures and web applications – we have a lot of things that are HTTP and REST-based at the moment
• Great communication skills – you’ll be expected to collaborate with our Front End and Product teams to help define requirements and build out the right solution
• A self-starter attitude – drive to do better and be better is baked into our culture

You’ll Stand Out If You:

• Have experience building and operating software in Amazon Web Services
• Know your way around PostgreSQL
• Have an understanding of configuration management and/or orchestration software like Ansible, Chef, and Puppet (we’ve used a lot of Ansible)

What we offer:

• Competitive salary and health benefits
• Spacious, collaborative workspace in the heart of the Toronto tech district, or in The Landing near Vancouver’s Gastown neighbourhood
• Team lunches and an impressive lineup of snacks
• Endless beer fridge
• Ping pong and video games (and some seriously competitive gamers)
• Quarterly company offsites and hackathons
• Indoor bike parking

Help us build software that showcases your impressive development skills and ultimately makes our customers happy. If you’re interested in designing and building beautiful software for a fast-growing Toronto startup, then send in your resume

Contact us at careers@thinkoutsidethevalley.com for more information