Senior Backend Developer, eCommerce

We are looking for a Senior Backend Developer to join our team on a long-term project.

Our client is a Canadian software development company working on its own platform.

Project: SaaS-based, data-driven eCommerce platform on AI-powered and fully cloud-native technology. North America market:

- We do test-driven development in an agile environment, working on cloud-native, highly scalable, and performant microservices in Java, Go, Python, deployed onto Kubernetes, running on Google Cloud Platform.

- We embrace microservice at an organizational level, where teams of up to 6 engineers work on loosely-coupled components to deliver sophisticated features.

- We embrace a modern DevOps culture, where core product engineers work hand-in-hand with site reliability engineers and other teams to operate, monitor, troubleshoot, and frequently update our critical production systems.

- We work with our product owners to understand our roadmap, align the architecture with business goals on the horizon, and discuss challenges while grooming and refining our backlog.

Qualifications Required

- Strong proficiency in a strongly typed language (Java preferred)

- Strong proficiency in a non-strongly typed language (Python preferred)

- Comfortable with writing effective unit and integration tests

- Basic understanding of ​resilience​, ​scalability, ​and ​security​ in software systems

- Previous exposure to ​distributed systems, microservices, ​and​ cloud-native applications

- Familiar with modern DevOps, preferably using modern tools such as ​Docker​ and Kubernetes

- Experience with ​Agile-based ​development practices

- Working knowledge of Git

Nice to have
 - Proven experience embedding AI into coding, testing, documentation, and review workflows to automate and accelerate delivery
- Frontend fundamentals (enough to debug/ship small UI changes and collaborate effectively)

- Experience building and running services hosted in the cloud using ​Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services, ​or​ Azure

Full-time remote job.