You’re a stand-out developer; an expert in system design, understanding scale, architecture, operational concerns, and the compromises inherent in different technical approaches. You will report to the Technical lead and will play an integral role in making Proposify's product world-class.
You possess a strong sense of urgency, bias towards action, combined that with the communication and teamwork skills to clearly convey complex technical details.
You’re a force multiplier. You thrive on moving fast, and elevating your team-mates by:
- Guiding teams to great solutions that deliver value to our customers.
- Helping to level-up less experienced engineers.
- Advocating for best practices.
- Participating in, supporting, and refining squad work prioritization and agile processes, leveraging data-driven metrics to find and capitalize on opportunities to get better, and faster.
- Living and breathing Proposify’s core values.
Some technologies we use daily to solve our customers issues:
- LAMP + Redis
- React & NodeJS
- AWS EC2, ECS, ElasticBeanstalk, Lambda, S3, CloudFormation, API Gateway, SQS, Kinesis, RDS, DynamoDB
What You’ll Do (and love doing):
Leadership:
- Balances strategic and tactical goals;
- Provides a motivating, positive “leveling up” influence on the team;
- Engage and collaborate with the rest of the Engineering team with the goal of continuous improvement.
Development:
- Performs coding tasks quickly, to high levels of quality, and with concise documentation;
- Participates in infrastructure changes and maintenance as required;
- Pushes the technology of the application forward.
Collaboration:
- Works to understand the product from the customer’s point of view;
- Participates in and supports initiatives outside of the main area of responsibility;
- Delivers, receives, and implements constructive feedback in a team-based environment;
- Communicate with the team in a professional and friendly manner.
Production support:
- Performs production deployments, including database updates as necessary;
- Is a proactive problem solver with production and infrastructure issues by monitoring logs and other data.;
- Participates in on-call rotation for production support as needed.
Problem Analysis:
- Works at whatever level is required to discuss problems and possible solutions of a task or project;
- Constructively challenges assumptions;
- Conducts and supports In-depth problem analysis of application infrastructure and code when needed.
What We’ll Love About You:
- Several years of experience in a role working on at least one server side programming language such as PHP, Node.js, Python, Ruby
- Experience implementing design systems using best practices, preferably implementing and supporting a custom design system.
- Mastery of modern development best practices, and the tools needed to build, deploy and release world class solutions to our customers.
- Experience working within a startup environment
- Someone who can quickly establish what the problem is and then quickly transition to finding solutions
- Relentlessly curious, with an internal excitement for learning and testing new technologies
- A clear communicator both verbally and with documentation
- A leader by default, who leads by example
What You’ll Love About Us:
While Proposify world headquarters is in Halifax, Nova Scotia, we are a 100% remote company with employees working from all over Canada. We’ve invested in all of the systems and tools that make remote work enjoyable, productive, and connected.
People feel empowered to do their best work and test out ideas. They don’t just ask ‘Why?’ but try ‘Why not?’ We are a team that embraces the new, the maybe, the unknown because we know that’s where growth lies; just beyond our comfort zone, just beyond what the experts say, and way beyond the way- we’ve-always-done-things.
Everyone is a leader in their role and has the autonomy and responsibility to contribute, to change, and to challenge. We don’t care how many hours people work, we care about the quality and impact of their work.
We get shit done. We get shit done fast. We are not a static company; we are moving forward and continually evolving to make things better for our business and the businesses of our customers.
We have flex hours so employees can design their day to work when they’re most productive, and allow for time each day to spend with family and friends, take advantage of nice weather, focus on wellness, and pursue their hobbies and passions.
Our Benefits:
- Company provided and paid health benefits from the day you start.
- RRSP matching program from the day you start with no resting period.
- 3 weeks of vacation to start; paid sick leave; personal days; company wide end of year break.
- Brightpass (free online fitness and wellness courses).
- Flexible working hours.
Job Type: Full-time
