We are Play Hockey. Hockey is our passion, and we love helping young players reach their full potential. Our veteran team of professionals delivers camps, clinics, leagues, teams, tournaments, and international tours to markets across North America. We strive to make a difference every day, act with integrity, and always love the game.
Play Hockey is seeking a AWS Lambda (Java) Developer to add to our Information Technology team. The successful candidate will have strong time management skills, the ability to work in a team setting as well as individually and have experience in the AWS Lambda (Java) development industry. This is a great opportunity to work on a serverless, modern architecture stack in a fast-paced project.
If you are ready for the next exciting challenge in your career and want to join a team of very experienced IT Professionals, this role is for you!
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop backend APIs using AWS Lambda (Java) and expose via API Gateway.
- Integrate with AWS services like S3, Step Functions, CloudWatch, Cognito.
- Participate in daily stand-ups and sprint planning sessions (Agile environment).
- Write reusable, secure, and testable code for both backend and frontend.
- Troubleshoot production issues and participate in deployment activities.
- Support CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code practices.
Required Skills & Experience:
- 2+ years of software development experience.
- Strong hands-on experience with Java (8 or later) for AWS Lambda development.
- Familiar with Git, DevOps concepts and working in a CI/CD pipeline.
- Good communication skills and ability to work independently
Nice to Have:
- AWS Experience and Certification
- Java Certification
- Prior experience on similar cloud-native projects.
Play Hockey offers a competitive compensation package, benefits program, remote work, and a fun yet challenging work environment. We promote continuous improvement in our staff, processes, skills, and foster career growth throughout.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: From $80,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Casual dress
- Dental care
- Disability insurance
- Extended health care
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision care
- Work from home
Application question(s):
- Are you legally authorized to work in Canada (Yes or No)?
- what is your salary expectation?
Experience:
- Software development: 4 years (required)
- writing and deploying Java code specifically: 4 years (required)
- building AWS Lambda functions in a production environment: 2 years (required)
Location:
Work Location: Remote
