Swift SMS Gateway Inc Hiring for Intermediate Software Developer at Barrie, ON Full Time

Intermediate Software Developer

Join the leading Canadian-based SMS API provider with global reach. Swift SMS Gateway is expanding its development team as we scale out our services.

As a Software Developer with Swift SMS Gateway, you will help design, build, and maintain the next iteration of Swift’s core messaging system, handling millions of SMS and API requests each month. You will be involved in major design, process, and protocol decisions as we lay the groundwork for a system that will take Swift into the future.

General Traits & Skills You Bring

• Strong sense of ethics

• Effective communicator and collaborator

• Willing to learn and apply new techniques and best practices

• Assertive, willing to speak up and question existing practices

• Able to work with minimal oversight within a tight knit team

Require Skills and Experience

• 3+ years of professional experience in software development

• Experience writing SQL queries or using ORMs to interact with databases

In Use Technologies

We don’t expect you to have experience with these technologies, however you will be primarily working with them, and will be given ample time to learn them:

• Elixir

• RabbitMQ

• Postgres

• Jenkins

Experience with other functional programming languages (eg. Erlang, Haskell), distributed message brokers (eg. Apache Kafka), or knowledge of DevOps pipelines and tools (eg. Gitlab CI) is appreciated. A background in facilities based architecture and database design is a plus.

Job Duties

In this role, as part of a small dev team, you’ll be designing, developing, and maintaining the next iteration of Swift’s core SMS platform, as well as peripheral systems that interact with it. The entire stack is written in Elixir, backed by Postgres, utilizes RabbitMQ, and is hosted on our own infrastructure.

You will be expected to:

• Write performant Elixir code

• Perform code reviews before releases

• Advise and define system and company processes

• Write and maintain tests

• Write performant SQL and Ecto queries

• Assist support staff with occasional escalated tickets (initial focus will be purely on the new development)

Salary and Benefits

• Competitive salary ($80k – $90k)

• Full benefits (medical, dental , vision, life insurance)

• Matching RRSP Contributions

• Bonus pay

• 100% remote (COVID-19 restrictions permitting, office space is available if you are located near Barrie, ON)

• Unlimited access to continuing education platform

Reference ID: Dev-0122

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: $80,000.00-$90,000.00 per year

Additional pay:

• Bonus pay

Benefits:

• Dental care
• Extended health care
• Life insurance
• RRSP match
• Vision care
• Work from home

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

COVID-19 considerations:
To keep employees as safe as possible, Swift has moved all staff to remote work, and made it a permanent feature for those who prefer it.

The entire interview process will be conducted remotely.

Work remotely:

• Yes