Senior Software Developer

Job title: Senior Software Developer

Company: Spare

Job description: Senior Software DeveloperDepartment: EngineeringEmployment Type: Full TimeLocation: Remote (Canada)Reporting To: Caitlin HutnykCompensation: $157,000 – $168,000 / yearDescriptionWe are hiring a Senior Software Developer to join our Motion team!Our Spare headquarters is located in Vancouver, BC, but this position is open to remote work options within Canada. Unfortunately, we are not able to hire this position outside of Canada at this time.As a Senior Software Developer on the Motion team, you will…

• Work with and build complex frontend features using React;
• Provide frontend leadership and guidance to the team;
• Work with traffic, routing, and vehicle routing algorithms;
• Work with a functional language around 25% of your time (Scala);
• Own features end to end, working with customers and other stakeholders, design and product, building the FE and BE
• Be in a high-impact position, empowered to make decisions that lead us to success while building complex products and features;
• Be involved in product and design discussions, talk with stakeholders like growth and customers and be part of the discussion for what to build;
• Collaborate with and mentor engineers of all levels;
• Actively participate in the day-to-day operations of the team, contributing ideas for how the team can better meet the needs of customers;
• Work on a complex distributed system, where real-time data updates and impacts the system every second
• Help us iterate and improve upon current engineering processes, to improve efficiency and to ensure 99.99% uptime and support the team in doing the same;

About this roleIn this role, you will…

• Deliver high-quality code. Design, code, test, document, and release new features using a combination of tools and languages (like Javascript/Typescript, React, Scala, Docker, Kubernetes and GCP, for example);
• Improve routing engine for driver application;
• Participate in team agile rituals;
• Uplift the team capacity (collaborating with engineers of all levels, mentoring junior developers, improving code base);
• Demonstrate an unrelenting focus on quality, speed, and overall excellence;
• Provide input for the ongoing improvement of engineering practices and procedures;
• Be part of on-call SRE team, after fully ramping up to the rest of this roles responsibilities;
• Talk to customers to better understand their needs and how to achieve them

About you

• You have significant experience and expertise building in React
• You have experience as a full stack software engineer, using any programming language;
• You have some experience working with real-time, complex, or distributed systems
• You have had ownership over complex projects in the past, participated in architectural conversations, proposed multiple solutions to a problem and understands their pros and cons;
• You have worked closely with customers and external developers to enable them to build new apps and extend the functionality;
• You understand other business and strategic aspects that are involved in the projects, can prioritize and can estimate the number of hours invested;
• You have worked in a company that is tech-focused (better yet if you got to grow in a company like that);

It will be considered a plus (nice-to-have):

• Experience with Javascript/Typescript and/or Scala;
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes and/or GCP;
• Experience in the transit industry or with vehicle routing problems
• Experience leading meetings, dailies and retros;

About the Motion team The Motion Team works on improving and deploying new features for the Spare Engine – our matching and routing algorithms. The Motion Team applies state-of-the-art optimization algorithms to solve NP-hard problems many times per minute, combining this with custom application logic to ensure that the decisions made by our system are intuitive to our end users.

Expected salary: $157000 – 168000 per year

Location: Vancouver, BC

Job date: Thu, 18 Jul 2024 03:48:21 GMT

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