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Backend Developer
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Job description
Your missions
WHO WE ARE
Northern Labs is on a mission to lower the barrier to entrepreneurship in Canada and help companies grow to a massive scale. As a Venture Studio, we use our deep technology expertise, capital, and vast network to assist founders in turning ideas into viable companies. In addition, we partner with top-tier venture-backed startups to build out highly scalable, enterprise-grade products and platforms.
We specialize in Blockchain, Fintech, Marketplaces, Analytics, and Gaming and bring the expertise from building and scaling some of the best companies in the portfolios of Sequoia, Andreessen Horowitz, Battery Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, GGV Capital, and Altos Ventures.
WHO WE'RE LOOKING FOR
We are seeking talented backend developers to join our growing team. As a backend developer at Northern Labs, you will be working in close collaboration with web and blockchain development teams to create scalable cloud solutions with ledger technologies and web products. Our dApps division is focused on building secure decentralized mobile & web products. We need driven individuals who are ready to take on difficult challenges in frontier technologies.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Design, develop, and maintain high quality backend services that interact with blockchain technologies.
- Collaborate with internal and external product and design teams to implement scalable and secure backend services.
- Work with other backend engineers to solve difficult problems across multiple services and products.
- Aid in the design, architecture, and implementation of complex REST, RPC, and GraphQL APIs for highly intuitive web services.
- Work with technical leaders to design high traffic web and mobile applications from the ground up, through all aspects of the project lifecycle.
- Collaborate with colleagues to maintain high code quality through code reviews, technical feedback cycles, unit testing and architectural audits.
ABOUT YOU
- Ambition, eagerness to learn, a positive attitude, and the ability to work within a team environment.
- Passion for making excellent products in real world conditions.
- Practical experience with and a strong understanding of data storage methods and building intuitive interfaces to access them (SQL, noSQL, Redis, etc.).
- Experience designing and evolving APIs for live products.
- Excellent problem solving skills and ability to communicate complex ideas to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Demonstrated knowledge of software development tools and processes relevant to one of the following languages (Elixir, Erlang, or Rails).
- Strong competence of version control systems and industry standard workflows (GitFlow, GitHub Flow, etc.).
- Familiarity with development environment best practices.
- At least a bachelor degree in computer science, or a related field of study.
BONUS IF YOU HAVE
- 2 or more years experience in a senior software development role.
- Experience developing or designing distributed technologies and managing distributed systems.
- Experience with known blockchain technologies (Bitcoin, Ethereum, etc.).
- Experience with financial systems or other highly secure services.
- Experience communicating with remote teams.
- Unix/Linux development environment experience.
- Shipped products using Ruby, Node.js, or other backend technology.
Required profile
Experience
Level of experience: Mid-level (2-5 years)
Industry :
Private Equity & Venture Capital
Spoken language(s):
English
Check out the description to know which languages are mandatory. Soft Skills
- Team Collaboration
- Interpersonal Skills
- Problem Solving
- Positive Attitude
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