Backend Engineer

This position can sit remotely in Canada (British Columbia, Ontario and Alberta). 

THIS POSITION HAS A BASE SALARY RANGE OF $130K CAD - $160K CAD. 

What you will own in this role: 

• Collaborate with your team to deliver independent microservices by decoupling capabilities associated with particular domains within the platform (pricing, payments, risk management)  
• Proactively find and address areas of concern and identify potential roadblocks
• Assist in clarifying stakeholder requirements; communicate questions and address concerns; provide relevant and detailed updates and feedback in a timely manner
• Design appropriate technical solutions based on requirements provided while taking into account timelines and future re-use ability

The experience we believe is the right fit:

• 3+ years of experience in web application development
• 2+ years experience in cloud-based microservices development
• Experience programming with Go 
• Experience building solutions with at least one cloud platform (AWS preferred)
• Skilled in designing/building RESTful APIs
• Ability to write clean, well-designed, and high-quality code in a highly collaborative Agile development environment
• A mindset of constantly learning new things
• Passion for growing your skills, tackling interesting work, and challenging problems
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
• Degree in Computer Science or a related field

 We work in small, cross-functional teams of 3-6 people and use Slack to stay connected.

You can see more about our tech stack on: https://stackshare.io/embroker/embroker 

What experience is nice to have:

• Event-driven and RESTful microservice architectures
• TDD and DDD
• Modern CI/CD Tools (Github Actions, Gitlab)
• APM tools (Datadog, Appdyanmics, New Relic)
• Modern Testing Frameworks (Browserstack) 
• PostgreSQL or other RMDS system
• Infrastructure As Code (Ansible/Terraform/Packer or equivalent)
• Containerization and Orchestration (Docker / Kubernetes)
• React and Typescript