Team Lead / Senior Nodejs Developer - remote

Senior Node.js Developer

Montreal, Quebec Canada

Job Description

Springbig Canada (Grandprintemp Canada), is a subsidiary of Springbig Inc., that is the US leading loyalty marketing and communications platform in the cannabis industry, working with over 1,300 unique storefronts and building up a cumulative database of over 20 million consumers. Our Software as a Service (SaaS) platform allows our dispensary clients to configure a custom loyalty program and through this loyalty program build a database of consumers. Our platform also boasts this industry’s most comprehensive communications engine, allowing our dispensary clients to market to their database of consumers via SMS and email (primarily focused on SMS marketing) in a personalized way. 

Our team boasts a combination of some of the most accomplished and experienced titans of the tech and marketing space, as well the most talented young minds in the industry. We found business owners in the cannabis industry to be underserved and in most cases ignored, so we designed our platform to give dispensaries and producers the most innovative tools in marketing –and we never stop innovating.

Mission:

Our mission is to offer the leading SaaS loyalty marketing and communications platform to help businesses grow their brand, increase marketing visibility and their revenue

Vision:

To continue to be an industry leader and innovator by delivering a quality technology and marketing platform for our customers with world class customer service.

Our headquarter is located in beautiful Montreal, Quebec Canada with team members distributed around North America. You will work remotely as we prepare to open our office in 2021.

What will I be working on?

As a Senior Node.js Developer, you’ll be working with us in all aspects of the product, from its core infrastructure to the various micro-services. As a part of the development team, you will wear multiple hats, turn ambiguity into details, take the lead on building complex features, and continuously find opportunities to improve performance and increase reliability.

Requirements:

• 5+ years of professional development experience
• 5+ years of experience in implementing Node.js based web applications and supporting microservices that have shipped
• Strong JavaScript and SQL experience
• Must be comfortable managing other developers and conducting code reviews
• Experience working with various JavaScript libraries and frameworks, MySQL and Git in a team environment
• You enjoy writing well-tested, well-organized code

Role and Responsibilities

• Design, development and delivery of Node.js-based database solutions, back end applications, microservices, processes and APIs
• Implement integrations with external APIs and data providers.
• Design, develop, and deploy APIs to integrate across multiple new and existing business applications.
• Manage and deploy the infrastructure to support the platform ecosystem.
• Coordinate the development with other technology platforms.
• Design and modify database schemas.
• Coordinate with Quality Assurance (QA) during hand-over and subsequent defect correction (fixes bugs).
• Refactor, as necessitated by addition of features or in response to code review.
• Implement automated tests.
• Continuous interaction with Team members via Jira, Confluence and other tools

Preferred experiences:

• 3+ years of Node.js development and test experience.
• 3+years of experience developing real-time Node.js application and microservices.
• Mastery of concepts such as event-driven programming, multi-threadedness and testing of real-time applications.
• Ability to demonstrate and walk through code for applications currently in production.
• Familiarity with the AWS environment, including Lambda, SQS and Kinesis.
• Expertise with SQL schema construction/analysis and query language.
• Experience with Git.
• Helpful: Ruby on Rails, React Native

Our current stack:

• Rails 6
• rspec
• sidekiq
• Vue.js / React Native
• AWS
• SQS
• EB
• Kinesis
• Athena
• Redshift
• DynmoDB
• Lambda
• RDS
• MySQL 8 / Aurora PostgreSQL 11

What are we looking for in a team member?

Your specialization is less important than your ability to learn fast, communicate and adapt to shifting priorities.

We’re especially fond of people who:

• Communicate well and articulate ideas clearly.
• Focus on project goals, not just writing code.
• Contribute ideas.
• Take initiative.
• Have a hacker mindset and master the fine art of balancing time, features, and quality of code.
• You know when to unit test and when to “just ship it”.

What’s it like to work at springbig?

It’s awesome! We’re a driven, passionate, responsible group who values professional growth and work life balance.

We take care of our team members:

• Competitive salary
• Unlimited PTO
• Choose your own equipment
• Casual and comfortable working environment

Expect to join an office that infuses lightness and creativity into our days, such as:

• Stocked coffee, snacks and candy “bar”
• Pizza parties and team lunches
• Laser Tag in the office
• Spontaneous games of tabletop cornhole or NERF wars
• Company sponsored Fantasy Football league and March Madness bracket challenge