[Remote] Software Developer

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Empire Life is looking to hire a Software Developer to join our Back Office Development team. This role involves software development of high-quality applications, leading the delivery of applications to production, and contributing to automated testing and architecture design.

Responsibilities

• Software development (“coding”) of high quality, production ready applications
• Lead the delivery of new and existing applications and services to production while working with the infrastructure, security and operations teams (aka DevOps)
• Contribute to automated testing with unit, functional and behavioral testing
• Proactively work with internal network and security teams to monitor applicable applications and services
• Troubleshoot problems and ensure resolution of issues
• Research and investigate improvements; analyze and provide findings and recommendations to management
• Enable the team to achieve success beyond their individual capabilities
• Provide technical expertise from experience
• Mentor teammates, facilitate the solving of challenging problems, and make difficult decisions
• Contribute to architecture design while collaborating with the Solution Architecture team
• Contribute to process improvements while using data driven decision making
• Following and proactively responding to technology and industry changes which impact our business

Skills

• 1+ years work experience (co-op/internships included) in back office software development
• Practical working knowledge in backend software development
• Knowledge with continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) including Github Actions and DevOps
• Automated testing (unit, functional and behavioural testing)
• Load testing applications to ensure acceptable performance according to agreed upon SLA's
• Programming language proficiency in one or more of: Kotlin, Java or C#
• Database schema design and SQL query experience
• REST API development
• Event driven architecture programming with Kafka or equivalent
• Documentation of delivered software with architectural decision records (ADR's) and OpenAPI specifications
• Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or equivalent cloud provider experience
• Experience with agile development methodologies (e.g. Scrum) and related platforms (Jira)
• Ability to think logically, analyze and solve problems
• Ability to prioritize multiple tasks and projects, and to pivot effectively to meet challenges
• Ability to work independently and as a team member
• Well-developed communication, negotiation, and presentation skills
• Demonstrated capability to manage all forms of stakeholder and client communication
• Demonstrated ability to lead discussions with technical and business teams
• Completion of a University degree, college diploma, technical training, and/or equivalent experience
• Language proficiency in English is required for communicating with customers, advisors, or employees across Canada

Benefits

• Competitive salaries with annual pay increases
• Annual bonus program, which recognizes both strong company performance and individual contributions, for non sales positions
• Competitive uncapped commission, for sales positions
• A comprehensive employer-funded benefits package starting from day one of employment, that includes life insurance, disability, health and dental and a generous health account
• Flexible work arrangements and an annual allotment of personal health days.
• Four weeks annual vacation from hire date
• A defined contribution pension plan with generous employer matching
• Top up programs for parental leave and compassionate leave
• Employer-sponsored wellness and recognition programs
• A cash employee referral program

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