Full Stack Senior Software Developer at Paidiem · Toronto

Company Description

The contingent workforce (gig workers) industry is enormous, at nearly $800B USD annually, and growing at an accelerated rate. Gig workers demand the power to decide when they are paid, and to assure their financial wellbeing. Join Paidiem as we pursue our vision to become the financial operating system for the workforce of the future. Paidiem is an emerging FinTech, providing efficient contingent workforce management solutions, and providing gig workers with access to Income on Demand and financial and assurance products to meet their unique needs.

Job Description

We're looking for a talented Full Stack Senior Software Developer to join our team. As a Developer, you will work on specific platform projects critical to Paidiem’s needs, with opportunities to switch projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve with our customer’s needs. This role will be involved in the product development, solution architecture and design process that involves the Paidiem system in its entirety.

You’ll bring your expertise with Angular, TypeScript, NodeJS, Express, PostgreSQL and responsive web skills. Ideally, you have experience building PWAs and like the excitement of working in a fast-paced startup. We need our developers to be versatile, display leadership qualities and be enthusiastic to take on new problems across the full-stack as we push forward. We are seeking an ambitious and innovative mind that will strive to elevate our organizational goals.

We look to our developers to collaborate and support the team, build and deliver software products, and share, build, and leverage their expertise to help us deliver products that delight our customers and our users.

Outline of Primary Functions:

Collaborate and Support the Team:

• Provide insight, estimates, and analysis to other members of the team to support the scoping, requirements, and development of product features.
• Collaborate with other developers to establish and maintain coding standards and guidelines.
• Support the existing infrastructure as well as designing and developing new technologies to meet our ongoing delivery.

Build and Deliver Product:

• Build solutions to match the visual design and interactions and features specified with minimal rework as necessary.
• Develop our platform using coding best practices to maintain or increase the quality of the application and its underlying dependencies.
• Conduct thorough testing to identify and resolve issues to avoid rework and performance issues.
• Create and deploy efficient code using company approved practices and processes.
• Maintain application security at all layers including frontend, backend, networking and infrastructure.

Share, build, and leverage your expertise:

• Be curious by seeking out new ways to deliver on our roadmap, through research of tools, technologies, and solutions that can create a more resilient, secure, scalable, and efficient platform.
• Attend and participate in industry functions and trade shows, webinars; network with industry and referring groups.
• Perform code reviews and provide knowledge transfers sessions.

Successful Outcomes:

Success in this role will be measured by the following (qualitative and quantitative) factors:

• Quality of work products including efficiency and bug-free code
• Sprint deliverables completed and commitments are met
• Quality estimation of work is in sync with effort and complexity
• Effective collaboration as a team including but not limited to peer code reviews, sprint planning, pair programming
• Ability to expand knowledge base and apply new learnings in your work

Qualifications

Education in computer sciences, mathematics, engineering or related field

You have been working in the area of software design and development, with a focus on SAAS web apps for at least 8+ years

Minimum 5 years expert level Full Stack Web Developer with Angular, TypeScript, NodeJS and Express experience.

Experiences with a tech startup, SaaS, or Financial services industry

Critical thinking, problem-solving, ability to write efficient and maintainable code.

Experience building in a continuous delivery pipeline using GitLab, AWS and microservice architecture.

Highly collaborative team player, and working within SCRUM and Agile methodologies

Provide technical support to resolve incidents and outages.

Additional Information

We thank all applicants for your interest in Paidiem. Only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted. Agency referrals or calls will not be accepted.

Equal Opportunity & Diversity at Paidiem:

We are building products for a diverse world and we need a diverse team to do that successfully. We strongly encourage applications from everyone regardless of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status.

Paidiem provides an accessible candidate experience. If you need any accommodations or adjustments throughout the interview process, please let us know.