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Senior Back End Engineer
Reports to: Tech Lead
Location: Toronto or Remote within Canada
Role Type: Full time, Permanent
Level: Individual Contributor
Introduction
Kablamo is a fast-growing cloud digital product development company. Founded in 2017 in Australia, the business has grown quickly over the last 6 years, including the expansion of the team to Canada in 2021. We are proud to have assembled an amazing list of customers, including some of the best known enterprise and government organizations, in Australia and Canada. We’re looking to further accelerate our growth in both markets in 2023, and we’re seeking a Back End Engineer to deliver new products to market.
Kablamo is proud to be an Advanced AWS Consulting partner, and we have recently been recognised as a global leader in designing and building cloud-based data and AI/ML solutions. At the 2021 AWS Global Public Sector conference, Kablamo won the award for “Most Innovative AI/ML Solution” for our work building bushfire prediction data platforms in Australia – we were selected from more than 1,800 AWS global partners.
The Role:
Our Developers work at the bleeding edge of what is possible. They are passionate about delivering high quality results through repeatable processes and development patterns. They can work seamlessly across the stack, building robust and performant Back End APIs and services.
Our Developers are curious by nature and love exploring the latest technologies. They have no greater satisfaction than seeing our clients’ disbelief at the speed and quality with which their application has “popped” to life!
Responsibilities:
- Develop performant backend APIs and services in Golang
- Make meaningful and active contributions to the project team(s) including input on best practices
- Mentor and guide junior-mid level engineers
- Participate in technical interviews
- Follow and contribute to Kablamo’s back end development methodology and processes
- Work cross functionally with QA, DevOps, FE, Product and Delivery teams
- Consistently demonstrate and advocate Kablamo’s values
Required Skills and Experience:
- 5+ years’ experience developing complex backend solutions
- Production experience with Go
- Experience developing APIs and back end services (GRPC, REST, Microservices)
- Experience with testing platforms, unit testing, and end to end testing
- Agile practices including: Code versioning, CI/CD, Automated quality practices
- Experience with cloud technologies – AWS
- Experience with serverless development
- Experience with Databases and Database integration
- Experience with Git including merging, rebasing and pull-request branch strategy
- Experience with scripting tools and automated deployments
- Experience working in a continuous integration environment eg. TeamCity
- Solid Knowledge and experience with OOP, Design Patterns, Dependency Injection
- Interpersonal skills to collaborate within a cross-functional team
Bonus Points for:
- Experience working with external clients
- Open source
- Security
- Front End development
- AWS certifications
- Exposure to Docker
- Exposure to load testing tools
Career Progression:
- Technical Lead
- Principal/Staff Engineer
Hiring Process:
- 30-min intro chat with our TA team
- 30-45 min take home assignment
- 1-hr Technical interview
- 1-hr Final/Cultural interview
- References
- Offer!
Why work at Kablamo?
Our Culture
We acknowledge a workplace that is diverse and inclusive, enables for greater innovation and produces benefits including improved performance, improved employee happiness and wellbeing, and superior outcomes for our customers. We attribute our success to all our unique and charismatic Kablamites. Through our fortnightly back to base and our debate Thunderdomes, we enable our Kablamites to provide feedback, share ideas, challenge the status quo and technically challenge each other constructively.
The PERKS!!!
- Kablamo bonus scheme
- Remote first with a downtown Toronto office available
- Work abroad for up to 3 weeks per year (some restrictions apply)
- Career growth (we really do promote from within!)
- Individual training budget
- Online rewards platform
- Regular social events
- Blogging rewards
- Paid birthday leave
- Anniversary bonus
- Referral bonus
- Parental Leave top up
- Employee Assistance Program
- Swag
Kablamo is a proud equal opportunity employer. We make our hiring decisions solely based on your skills and experience, as well as the perspectives and value you can bring to our team. Kablamo believes that diversity is vital to provide the best service to our clients and we are committed to fostering a varied and inclusive work environment. Every effort to accommodate candidates for accessibility will be made upon request. Information received related to accommodations will be addressed confidentially.
Kablamo would like to thank all candidates for their interest however only qualified applicants will be shortlisted.
