Senior Full-Stack Platform Software Developer

We’re looking for a Senior Full-Stack Platform Software Developer to join a specialized team with expertise in Hootsuite’s core platform services and tools. This team is part of the DevOps group at Hootsuite. In this role, you will be responsible for our network edge, client authorization, Kafka clusters and tooling, encryption, API and service tooling, and more. The team is also responsible for a monolithic application, setting standards, improving ownership and tooling, and leading other teams on how to modernize the monolith.

The team primarily uses Go, Scala, and PHP and has expertise in technologies such as Kafka, various AWS services, and some infrastructure-as-code tools. As a full-stack developer, your primary focus will be on backend development and DevOps tasks, but you will also be expected to collaborate with frontend teams and work on some frontend tasks. We expect successful candidates to have a good understanding of JavaScript, TypeScript and React.

In line with Hootsuite's distributed workforce strategy, our flexible work arrangement allows for remote work or a hybrid model. This role is open to applicants located in British Columbia or Alberta where we comply with our legal hiring entities. In this role, you will report to the Manager, Software Development, Dev-Ops.

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

• Design and build software - tools, libraries, automation, services
• Responsible for the reliability, security, and integrity of our large, cloud-based platform
• Practice continuous improvement, contributing to culture, process, and direction in your team and across our department
• Develop processes and automation to eliminate repetitive tasks
• Design and build our platform
• Identify and implement new platform features
• Research and evaluate new technologies
• Refactor, rewrite or retire existing platform features
• Operate our platform services
• Respond to incidents
• Diagnose and repair bugs
• Perform maintenance, upgrades, and migrations
• Control or eliminate repetitive tasks, alert noise, and business-as-usual work
• Enable development teams
• Provide executable interfaces to our platform
• Provide tools and best practices to support the entire software development lifecycle
• Work collaboratively within the team and across the organization to solve difficult and exciting cross-portfolio problems
• Get involved with various cross-portfolio developer groups in the org to help promote good practices and set better standards for other dev teams to follow
• Communicate by mentoring, writing documentation, participating in meetings, and sharing your work at demos

WHAT YOU’LL NEED:

• A degree in Computer Science or Engineering, and at least 5 years of experience in an SRE, DevOps or software engineering role and a track record of substantial contributions to software projects with high business impact
• Experience with mentoring, coaching, and pairing with coworkers
• Experience writing clean code that performs well at scale and an understanding of SaaS software development practice; Ideally you have experience working on a SaaS product
• Experience using infrastructure-as-code tools to build and run cloud infrastructure
• Experience in backend, devops and frontend development, ideally with experience in creating tools and services for other developers
• Collaboration and Teamwork: works with others to deliver results, meaningfully contributing to the team and prioritizing group needs over individual needs
• Creativity and Innovation: seek new and better ways of doing things, generating original and imaginative ideas, products, and/or solutions
• Problem Solving: uses an organized and logical approach to find solutions to complex problems and looks beyond the obvious to understand the root cause of problems and proposes several possible solutions.
• Resilience, Tolerance for Change/Ambiguity: can effectively cope with change, finding ways to advance work and projects

WHO YOU ARE:

• Solution seeker: You’re focused on tackling new challenges, solving problems, and moving the business forward—and you don’t wait to be asked.
• Lifelong learner: You have a growth mindset – you’re here to learn, experiment, seek, apply, and provide feedback, share what works with your team, and move on from what doesn’t.
• Resilient adapter: In the face of change and challenges, you bring a thoughtful, calm approach, and a focus on finding the new opportunity.
• Intentional collaborator. You build positive working relationships across the business, bringing people together to foster new opportunities and to facilitate the efficient flow of information.
• Critical challenger: You have the trust in your team to ask difficult questions in order to get to the best end result.
• Active communicator: You listen actively and communicate ideas and information clearly, inclusively, and proactively.
• Integrated thinker: You look beyond your role and responsibilities to understand how your team’s work drives broader organizational goals.
• Accountable owner: You take pride in the work you’re responsible for with a mindset of ultimate accountability and reliability for the outcomes.
• Bar-raiser: You step up to help your team grow and succeed, even when that means going beyond what might be expected.

In all we do, our six guiding principles light the way:

Step Up: Show the world what it looks like to live and work by these guiding principles. #StepUp

One Team: Make Hootsuite a place where everyone feels safe, welcome, valued, and empowered to do their best  work without compromising who they are. #OneTeam #FreeToBeMe

Customer Obsessed: Focus relentlessly on helping our customers succeed. #CustomerObsessed

Go Fast, Be Agile: Widen our competitive advantage by committing to speed and simplicity over perfection and complexity. #GoFastBeAgile

Play to Win: Commit to building an incredible, profitable company for our customers, our employees, and our stakeholders. #PlayToWin #NoExcuses

Neighbours & Allies: Give back to our communities and be an ally. #SocialForGood #Allies

Accommodations will be provided as requested by candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

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