Job Description
About Company
Your role & responsibilities
Day to Day
- Writing and reviewing code from the sprint backlog inline with backend guild best practices
- Assisting in driving squad sprint execution to ensure timelines are met without compromising on quality.
- Anticipates and communicates blockers or delays for their work (or their squads) before they require escalation.
Technical Duties
- Consistently writes production-ready code that is easily testable, easily understood by other engineers, and accounts for edge cases and errors.
- Provides technical advice and weighs in on technical discussions / decisions that impact their team.
- Ensures their commitments are realistic, understands their priority and urgency, and delivers upon them accordingly.
Communication & Leadership Duties
- Communicate within your team in an effective, clear, concise manner in both written and verbal form on technical and non technical subjects.
- Helps their fellow team members overcome obstacles, resolve blockers, and complete work tasks.
- Mentors more junior teammates in an open, respectful, flexible, and empathetic manner.
Your skills & qualifications
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
- Must have at least 5+ years commercial experience working with various server side technologies
- Must have at least 3+ years working with unit and integration testing patterns
- Must have at least 2+ years working with agile development methodologies
- Must have at least 1+ years commercial experience in Kotlin / TypeScript / Scala or an appetite to learn
- Must possess strong oral and written English language communication skills
PREFERRED REQUIREMENTS
- Preferred candidates will have a team player mentality, quick on their feet, agile, and aren't afraid to speak up and voice their opinion.
- Preferred candidates will have prior experience setting up and contributing to CI/CD environments
- Preferred candidates will have prior experience with ORMs
- Preferred candidates will have experience with functional programming patterns and practices
- Preferred candidates will have prior experience working with GraphQL
Benefits for you
- Great healthcare packages
- MacBook Pro provided
- Competitive salary
- 7 paid sick days & 20 paid leave days & 8 Mental Health Days per year
- Kitchen stocked with snacks & drinks
- Fun, creative and fast-paced working environment
- Our offices have creative, open workspaces with room to play, reflect, and relax
- We support your ongoing education and learning as a valued teammate.
- Life isn’t crammed into a 9-5. We provide a balanced lifestyle to encourage you to perform at your best.
- Our team is extremely competitive, and we will challenge your best table tennis skills.
- Working time: Mon - Fri
- 12 days of paid holiday per year
- Equity in the form of SARS (Stock Appreciation Rights)
- Learning & Development Stipend