Vendasta Hiring for Full Stack Developer, Platform (Remote Friendly) at Toronto, ON Full Time

At Vendasta, we believe in helping great local businesses survive and thrive in a world that’s more competitive than ever—and we’re growing our team! This is an opportunity to join one of the fastest growing tech companies in Canada and make a direct impact on local economies worldwide. In a world where local businesses all over the globe have had their livelihoods turned upside down, Vendasta continues to help them embrace digital solutions and flourish.

Vendasta is a certified Great Place to Work and Best Workplace™ for Today’s Youth and Women. Keep reading if you’d like to join us on our mission to support small businesses all over the world.

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About the Job*
We are looking for a full stack developer to join our Platform division. Working in the Platform division you’ll help build the platform that enables our clients to provide their expertise to Small to Medium Businesses. This includes everything from making a great first impression through our Snapshot report, prospecting clients through our Sales CRM, to making it a breeze to create orders and invoice for them, enabling mission critical functions for our client base. Our development teams practice Agile scrum methodologies, we pride ourselves on having an accountability-based management culture. That means the communication channel with your manager is open and project management is done in a collaborative manner.

Our Research and Development department of over 100 developers works hard to help developers learn, grow, and experiment while at work through exciting opportunities such as our weekly tech demos, an active blog, and frequent developer collaboration.

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The impact you’ll have*

• Work on a team of 3-6 other developers
• Participate in backlog refinement to ensure we’re solving the right problems
• Contribute to achieving team level objectives
• Drive outcomes that impact the key business objectives
• Follow best practices to write clean, maintainable, scalable, and testable software
• Voice your opinions throughout sprints to help ensure we’re building a successful platform
• Help fix bugs and manage tech debt

The value you’ll bring

• 2+ years experience in a related field
• Bachelor’s degree in software engineering or computer science, or the equivalent education and experience
• Proficiency in modern software language and willingness to quickly learn our technology stack

Bonus Points For

• Golang/Angular/RxJS experience
• Experience or strong understanding with high scalability, data-intensive and/or distributed applications
• Familiarity with Google Cloud Platform
• 5+ years of experience
• Someone who is forward thinking and can drive the adoption of new technologies

Technologies we use

• Cloud-Native Computing using Google Cloud Platform
• BigQuery, Cloud Dataflow, Cloud Pub/Sub, Cloud Tasks, Cloud SQL, Cloud Spanner, Cloud Datastore, Stackdriver, the list goes on! We’ve also been invited to join the Early Access Program on quite a few GCP technologies.

• Golang, Typescript, Python, Javascript, HTML
• Angular
• Cadence Workflow
• Elasticsearch
• Kubernetes & Docker
• Microservice architecture
• GRPC

About Vendasta
So what do we actually do? We create an entire platform full of digital products & solutions that help small to medium sized businesses (SMBs) have a stronger presence online through digital advertising, online listings, reputation management, website creation, social media marketing … and much more! Our platform is used exclusively by channel partners, who sell products and services to SMBs, allowing them to leverage us to scale and grow their business. We’re trusted by 60,000+ channel partners, serving over 5.5 million small to medium businesses worldwide!

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Perks*

• Benefits – health, dental, life, and disability insurance, an employee assistance program (EAP)*, and $500 annual Health Spending Account. Premiums for health & dental insurance will be covered by Vendasta!
• Vacation – Minimum 3 weeks paid vacation per year; uncapped sick time policy.
• Employee Options Program – get in on Vendasta’s growth and success!
• Sweet Eats – On site cafeteria with beverages & snacks all day and free catered lunch every Friday
• Training & Career Development – Education reimbursement program, professional development plans, leadership workshops, mentorship program, and so much more!
• Culture – comprised of our core values: Drive, Innovation, Respect, and Agility
• Social Events – Ideas on Tap, ski trips, virtual talent shows, yoga classes, and more!
• Giving Back – endless opportunities to take part in programs and initiatives that give back to the community we work in, including paid volunteer time.

Job Type: Full-time