Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer

Software Engineering

Improving is committed to building a great place to work by cultivating an environment that fosters professional and personal relationships. We value open communication, personal growth, and shared rewards, which result in sustainable success.

Voted “best place to work” numerous times, Improving strives to create and maintain a culture that exemplifies teamwork, excellence, and fun! We believe this kind of culture encourages both the inspiration and the motivation to achieve amazing things.

Job Type: Full-Time

Location: Vancouver, BC

Country: Canada Note this role is open to candidates in Vancouver, Calgary, Winnipeg, Ottawa or Toronto.

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Our interview process for Senior Software Developers respects the growth you’ve experienced while training and strengthening your craft, while also becoming a more valued member of your team as a specialist, innovator and leader. You can expect curated, not trick, questions to help you showcase your skills and abilities. Your interviewers are smart and caring people who want to help you clarify your strengths in as close to a real-world context as we can make within the larger interview experience. Furthermore we value your opinions, insights and questions and encourage you to share them both in anonymous surveys or within the direct discussions.

Culture is huge for us so expect an exceptional onboarding experience where you'll get to know everybody in the company, get paired up with a buddy, matched with your peer group for sharing and learning, introduced to our various internal programs for refreshing and strengthening your engineering and customer facing skills, and work with your manager to make sure you are supported in your way of work and in your personalized career Growth Plan. We grow when our members grow, therefore your insights, your learning, your growth are critically important to us and we look forward to growing together!

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As a Senior Software Developer you'll be given autonomy and trust to:

• Scope and author designs, then drive development through SDLC to final release

• Collaborate, coordinate and delegate within project team members

• Drive one or more features within the team

• Be a subject matter expert that inspires learning and growth

• Advise those who look to you as a subject matter expert

• Reach out to customers to discuss topics or answer questions

Become proficient in authoring designs to ensure they are approved by our customer

Technical Acumen Responsibilities

• Lead designs with minimal guidance
• Actively participate in code reviews and be a gatekeeper to high code standards
• Write complete and correct tests including setting up test frameworks as needed
• Write code that is maintainable, readable, testable, and documented
• Write code that is maintainable, readable, testable, and documented
• Live out high programming, leadership and customer service standards

Delivery & Execution

• Ability to operate independently to efficiently deliver results.
• Gather specifications from clients, scoping work to reflect client demands and ensure clear expectations
• Own the success of your project by prioritizing and managing schedules, as well as delegating tasks and seeking help from others
• Accurately plan and estimate projects according to specifications
• Foster highly productive collaboration within your team
• Use clear and timely communication to ensure the team and clients are well informed

Leadership Responsibilities

• Mentor other developers
• Be a subject matter expert in multiple areas for your team
• Help to improve company best practices, knowledge base, policies and processes
• Lead by example in pursuing projects that require learning new technologies, skills, languages
• Offer proposals and solutions to challenges and issues.
• Collaborate with Talent Acquisition on to find awesome folks like yourself!
• Participate in the development of an inclusive, helpful, fun environment.

Qualifications

• B. Sc. in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent relevant experience

• 5+ years of industry experience with programming object-oriented Java and/or C++

• Excited to learn and solve challenging technology problems

• Experience estimating software development requirements

• An ability to present and discuss ideas in a collaborative way

• Development experience on Window and macOS, Linux a plus

• Nice to Haves

• Memory management and performance analysis tools experience

• Big Data and/or NoSQL experience

• Experience building database connectivity

• Exposure to authentication and access technologies such as SSO, OAuth, SAML, LDAP

• Experience programming with other backend languages

• Improving welcomes people from all backgrounds and walks of life, and this is reflected in our largely diverse community of Improvers. Improving is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and is committed to providing equal opportunities for all employees and applicants. Improving recruits, hires, trains, promotes, compensates, and administers all personnel actions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sex stereotyping, pregnancy (which includes pregnancy, childbirth, and medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding), gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, age, mental or physical disability, ancestry, medical condition, marital status, military or veteran status, citizenship status, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable law.

• About Improving

• Improving is a modern digital services company dedicated to positively changing the perception of the IT professional. We offer innovative solutions through consulting, software development, and training to help thousands of our clients achieve new heights in a competitive and ever-changing market.

• As our company continues to grow, we are looking for enthusiastic thought leaders to join our team. Improving has a unique mix of passionate professionals who strive to grow and thrive in new ways. We are committed to establishing and maintaining an inclusive culture that allows all Improvers to bring their authentic selves to work each day. This is why we work hard to build inclusion and diversity in our workplace, so we can all do amazing things and succeed together.

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