Software Developer

Description:

Are you looking for a supportive, collaborative workplace with great teams and inspiring leaders? You've come to the right place. We're looking for ambitious people who share our values and want to make every day better for people around the world. If this sounds like you, and the career below sounds exciting, we'd like to hear from you.

We are looking for Software Developers who are interested in working and enhancing their skills in one or more of Front End, Back End, and Full Stack disciplines.

What will you be doing?

Join us in a fun, friendly, team-oriented virtual (work from home) environment, working closely with a coach/mentor

Work on a variety of application systems that are used by the Group Customer organization within Canada Life; assist with software maintenance and make small enhancements to existing applications (design, development, testing and implementation of application changes)

Conduct functional application testing of our end user applications to ensure compatibility with planned OS and MS Office upgrades.

Learn how we use collaboration tools - work with our team to design and develop collaboration solutions to be used by IS team.

Contribute learning from education experience to practical process improvement opportunities.

What will you be using?

You will be digging into several of the following, so experience in any of these areas is a huge plus:

js, React, GraphQL, Node, Angular 2+, HTML, CSS3, Typescript and Modern JavaScript

Java/Spring, JUNIT, C#/.Net/.Net Core, Python, Ruby

Bash, PowerShell

Web Services & APIs

Oracle, MS SQL, MongoDB, DB2

Git and branching strategies like GitFlow, Jenkins,

VS Code, VB6, C++

Some squad assignments may also involve data analysis using Python, DataBricks on Azure, and writing complex queries & stored procedures

Kafka, Nifi

Nice to Have

Open source! Any experience with open source is very attractive to us!

Containerization of applications into a cloud environment: AWS, Azure, Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF), Kubernetes

Atlassian Jira & Confluence, Splunk

Concourse/Fly, Docker, SonarQube, Artifactory, BlackDuck

Configuration Management tools (Chef, Ansible, etc.)

Administering and configuring web server technologies (Apache, WebLogic, nginx, etc.)