Granify Hiring for Senior Software Developer (Front End) at Edmonton, AB Full Time

Senior Software Developer (Front End)

Granify is a rapidly evolving technology company at the intersection of e-commerce, machine intelligence and psychology. We’re building an industry-leading optimization platform for online retailers wanting to create a better online shopping experience for their customers.

We’re searching for a Senior Software Developer who values mastery, authenticity, and positivity to help build and grow our product. As we lead the way into a trillion dollar industry, we want someone who is driven and who drives others – if this is you, we want you to be a part of it!

Love tackling the inherent challenges of a fast-paced, evolving tech industry? You’ll get a chance to design, build, and improve on each part of our tech stack, with an emphasis on front end development. Have ideas, feedback, and solutions? You’d work closely with all members of the product and sales teams in a collaborative environment to design and implement new products and features.

This position is full-time in Edmonton, AB, Canada. We welcome local applicants, as well as any Canadian citizens, permanent residents, or eligible international applicants willing to relocate.

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What You’ll Work On*

The Front End team is focused on improving development processes and our JavaScript platform to support our clients on their path to success. We are also responsible for handling client onboarding and innovating customized retail toolsets to increase conversion rates, average order values, and customer lifetime values.

As a Senior Software Developer on the Front End Team you’ll:

• Drive the design, architecture, and development of a client-side application powering the next generation of Granify’s solutions
• Work on our JavaScript platform to help launch new clients and improve current partnerships and toolsets
• Troubleshoot, test, and debug to your heart’s content
• Connect to our our data collection & decision engine – it collects millions of requests and terabytes of e-commerce data (traffic, orders, etc.) then uses our proprietary algorithms to translate it into user behavior and patterns
• Build the tools to support the visual creation of messages that optimize shopper sessions in real-time, drive conversion rates, and increase uplift for our clients.
• Maintain and update our client dashboard, a client-facing app full of toolset information and performance results
• Mentor and advise junior developers
• Participate in code reviews, sharing knowledge, feedback, and ideas – teaching and learning, it’s a two-way street that leads down the road to improvement

You Are…

• Someone with a true engineering mindset, you build things to work and to last
• Passionate about finding elegant solutions to complex technical problems
• Eager to work in an ever evolving code base and constantly strive to improve the domain
• Committed to mastery and craftsmanship in your work
• Curious, constantly looking for better ways to build things and willing to learn about emerging technologies
• Positive and personable – we’re all tackling these challenges together!
• Able to communicate with clarity and brevity

Fundamentals:

• Deep understanding of JavaScript, including experience and knowledge of its standards and best practices.
• Strong understanding of MVC and MVVM architectures
• Experience and skill with HTML and CSS
• Experience with server-side web apps in any language
• Willing and interested to learn and work with new languages
• Source control (Git) and familiarity with unix command line
• Experience working as a front-end developer in an Agile environment
• Experience mentoring junior engineers

Bonus points if you have expertise in:

• Experience with modern JS libraries and frameworks, such as jQuery, Coffeescript, SASS, Ember, Angular, React, Gulp, Grunt, WebPack, or others
• Experience working with Tag Management Systems such as Google Tag Manager, Tealium and Signal
• Experience integrating with analytics packages such as Google Analytics and Omniture
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent degree / experience
• Amazon Web Services
• e-Commerce Applications
• Server side technologies, especially Ruby / Ruby on Rails, SQL, Redis, Hadoop
• Machine learning

Working at Granify:

You’ll work closely with an incredible group of the smartest, most interesting, genuinely good people around. You’ll work hard, learn quickly, and have plenty of excitement. You’ll also get a first hand view into the rapidly evolving, exciting intersection of e-commerce, machine intelligence and psychology.

With our continued growth as a company, you’ll find limitless opportunities for growth, development, and career progression.

Did you know? Granify is backed by early investors in Facebook, Uber, Twitter, Airbnb, Paypal, Pinterest, Palantir and Yelp. Wouldn’t it have been great to get in at one of those companies as they were taking off…

Job Type: Full-time