As a Senior Backend Developer, you will be working as part of a small cross-functional team, driving our core features from start to finish. This will include gathering requirements, creating technical specifications and designs, and actual implementation of these features. Our teams have a large degree of autonomy and ownership and we are looking for someone who can work with minimal supervision or direction. Please Note: This is a remote position based in Canada that is available to those who are legally entitled to work in Canada.
Responsibilities
- Practice the KOHO values
- Develop features and improvements to the KOHO product in a secure and performant way
- Influence overall objectives and long-range goals of your team
- Champion, define and improve our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a distributed, event-driven system
- Provide mentorship for less experienced developers on your team
- Monitor and maintain services in production that are within the team’s domain of ownership
- Develop a network outside of your team
Who You Are:
- You solve problems and not their symptoms
- You share your knowledge with those who do not have your experience
- You see a problem or inefficiency and do something about it
- You understand the importance of working as part of a team
- You know how to reach consensus with your peers
- You share our values and work in accordance with those
- You are self-motivated and want to always be better than your yesterday’s self
Skills and Experience We're Looking For:
- 5+ years of professional development experience
- Familiarity with Golang and RESTful APIs
- Familiarity with Docker and AWS
- Working experience in distributed, event-driven systems
- Fluent English speaker with excellent written and verbal communication skills, sufficient for a remote-first environment
- Ability to concisely communicate about complex technical issues
- Experience with cross-functional engineering teams is preferred
- Familiarity with Agile - SCRUM and Kanban
- Familiarity with all stages of SDLC