Software Developer (Java/Golang)

At Sectigo, we align around our mission and pride ourselves in helping thousands of customers sleep better at night.

Sectigo is the most innovative provider of certificate lifecycle management (CLM), delivering comprehensive solutions that secure human and machine identities for the world’s largest brands. Sectigo’s automated, cloud-native CLM platform issues and manages digital certificates across all certificate authorities (CAs) to simplify and improve security protocols within the enterprise. Sectigo is one of the largest, longest-standing, and most reputable CAs with more than 700,000 customers and two decades of delivering unparalleled digital trust.

“When people think Online trust management, they think Sectigo because we offer our customers unparalleled peace of mind.”

How we show up with each other and our customers every day is just as important, and we win as #OneSectigo by living out our core values - Support, Excellence, Communication, Teamwork, Integrity, Growth and Openness. We are committed to investing in our diverse teams where everyone understands their role and how they support our strategic goals, we drive operational excellence through scale and efficiency, and we strive to delight our customers and become the market leader in our industry. If you aspire to join a driven team that holds each other accountable to meeting our lofty goals and you’d like to be part of our growth story in delivering a market leading user experience, we’d like to talk to you.

Position Summary

The Software Developer (Mid-Level) contributes independently to the development, integration, and support of modern applications using Java and Go, with exposure to frontend/UI technologies and scripting. This role focuses on delivering high-quality, scalable, and secure solutions while owning assigned components and customer issues end-to-end. The position requires sound technical judgment, low-level design responsibility, and a solid understanding of software security principles, including practical cryptography and PKI, within a collaborative team environment.

This is a full-time intermediate level position, working in a hybrid model, and reporting to our Ottawa office at least 3-4 days a week. The target compensation package for this role is between CAD $95K and $115K, subject upon internal equity and years of experience.  We may make further adjustments through an approval process if the targeted compensation range needs to be modified based on business needs and market trends.

Primary Responsibilities

• Independently investigate, troubleshoot, and resolve customer and internal issues, including root-cause analysis and implementation of effective solutions.
• Design and implement backend services, UI applications, third-party integrations, and REST services using Java/Spring, Golang, frontend technologies (such as Angular), and/or scripting solutions.
• Own and maintain integrations with third-party products and external systems, including handling API changes, failures, and version upgrades.
• Take responsibility for delivering complete solutions, including production code, unit and integration tests, design documentation, performance analysis, and product support artifacts.
• Participate actively in code reviews, both receiving and providing constructive feedback to improve code quality and maintainability.
• Apply low-level design principles to components and services, considering performance, security, scalability, and maintainability.
• Perform scripting and automation tasks using shell scripting on Linux and PowerShell on Windows to improve efficiency and reliability.
• Work with containerized applications using Docker and contribute to deployment, monitoring, and troubleshooting in production environments.
• Demonstrate awareness of production systems by analyzing logs, metrics, and alerts, and participating in incident analysis and remediation.
• Additional tasks associated with this position may be assigned in response to company initiatives and business needs.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or equivalent is strongly recommended.

Experience

• 3 - 6+ years of relevant corporate or commercial experience in a software development role.
• Java and Golang are required or strongly preferred, with hands-on exposure to development technologies such as Java (Maven, Spring framework) and Golang toolchains required or strongly preferred.
• Solid experience designing and consuming REST APIs, working within microservices-based architectures, and integrating with external systems.
• Experience developing software in a professional environment, including source control, bug tracking systems, testing frameworks, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong working knowledge of Linux environments is required.
• Strong English language communication skills, both written and verbal, are required.

Technical Knowledge (Preferred)

• Strong understanding of software security principles, including authentication, authorization, practical cryptography, and Public Key Infrastructure (PKI).
• Experience integrating with third-party products, services, and APIs.
• Working knowledge of Docker and containerized application concepts.
• Experience with frontend technologies such as Angular, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS is a plus.
• Proficiency with scripting languages such as Bash or PowerShell is a plus.

Talents and Desired Qualifications

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to work independently.
• Demonstrated ownership of tasks and the ability to deliver solutions with minimal supervision.
• Ability to make sound technical decisions at the component level and raise risks or concerns proactively.
• Strong collaboration and interpersonal skills for working effectively in a global team environment.
• Clear and confident communication skills, capable of explaining technical topics to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to adapt to changing priorities and operate effectively in a fast-paced environment.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Global team. Global reach. Global impact.

At Sectigo, we believe doing good is good business. Our strength and our success come from our team of passionate, engaged individuals who make a difference, both locally and globally. Our commitment to engagement is rooted in an unconditionally inclusive workforce, embodying our unique perspectives, heritages, and backgrounds, all as diverse as the experiences of each Sectigo employee. Importantly, we strive to be recognized not only as the CLM leader but also for our intentional efforts to promote employees into the roles that most challenge and excite them, into experiences that allow them to grow their interests as we grow the business. We are committed to bringing a little bit of fun and a whole lot of happiness into everything we do so that our work – and our team members – reflect the positive outcomes we deliver to our customers every day.