Intermediate Programmer

Description:

As a research-based consulting firm, Advanis’ expertise and innovations have a profound impact on
business and public sector affairs. For our private sector clients, our research helps design successful new
products; set the right prices; test entirely new product or service ideas; maximize their brand value and
positioning; increase their customers’ satisfaction; target their most profitable customers; and much
more. Our research helps our public sector clients evaluate programs; develop policies; understand social
decision-making; and design and optimize the delivery of government services to Canadians. We consult
with some of the leading corporations in the world and to all levels of government in Canada.

To ensure that our market research team delivers reliable, timely, and actionable information to our
business and government clients, Advanis develops and continuously improves its own suite of state-of-
the-art marketing and analysis software tools. This in-house software expertise has proven to be a core
competency of our organization. Advanis’ team of expert programmers pride themselves on using Test
Driven Development (TDD) and follows the practices described by Robert Martin in his book entitled
Clean Code.

If you are passionate about the Computer Science market and social research, consider becoming one of
the next generation of leaders at Advanis.
 

The Role

We have full-time openings for the position of Intermediate Programmer. The successful candidate will be
responsible for the following:

• Development of web-based reporting applications and web-based tools for administering these

applications.

• Development of software tools to automate or enhance internal processes including developing GUIs,

web applications, scripts, crons, filters, translators, and code generators.

Experience and Education
Such candidates should also possess the following technical qualifications:

• A university degree or
• A diploma in an applied field.

Specific Skills

We are seeking candidates with excellent communication skills who learn quickly, have a lot of initiative,
and possess the following qualifications:

• At least 3 years of programming experience using a varied toolset which includes Python, SQL, HTML,

Javscript, CSS, and XML.

• Other language experience is an asset.
• Familiarity with Object Oriented Programming and Design Patterns.
• Experience with database design required – experience with PostgreSQL is an asset.
• Experience working in Unix and n-tiered web environments and using tools such as Mercurial.
• Experience using Agile and Test-Driven development methodologies.
• An ability to identify opportunities to automate processes.