Senior Software Engineer at Pointclickcare — Canada

About The Role

Join our team as a Senior Software Engineer specializing in Big Data and Java. In this role, you will be responsible for identifying, prioritizing, and executing tasks in the software development life cycle. You will work closely with the business to iterate over software requirements, develop tools and applications, automate tasks, analyze and debug systems, and perform validation and verification testing. You will also collaborate with internal teams and vendors to fix and improve products, ensure software is up-to-date with the latest technologies, and work with distributed computing systems for big data processing.

Identifying, prioritizing, and executing tasks in the software development life cycle, collaborating with business to iterate over software requirements.
Developing tools and applications by producing clean, efficient code, automating tasks through appropriate tools and scripting.
Analyzing and debugging systems, performing validation and verification testing in a test-driven manner, and reviewing the work of others.
Familiarity with Hadoop, Spark, Databricks or other distributed computing systems
Experience with distributed computing tools like Apache Hudi, Spark, Kafka, Flink, Beam, Trino, DataBricks and other big data technologies
Self-starter with the ability to deliver with minimal supervision
Proficient in GIT
Analytical mind with problem-solving aptitude
Knowledge of distributed computing principles and how they apply to large-scale data processing
Bein okay with the uncomfortable feeling that comes from learning new things
Experience with distributed storage systems like ADLS, HDFS, S3, DLT etc
Experience using system and performance monitoring tools (e.g. New Relic, DataDog)
Team player
Solid experience writing RESTful API endpoints
Understanding of data partitioning and sharding techniques
Knowledge of relational databases (e.g. Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL)
Proven experience as a great Engineer
Absolutely love TDD and have working knowledge of it
Experience in writing clean code that performs well at scale using languages such as Python, Java etc
Excellent organization, critical-thinking and personal leadership skills
BSc/BA in Computer Science or a related degree
Experience with distributed computing
Experience writing code/scripts in Python
Experience with Ansible
Experience with Spring Boot
Experience with Jenkins CI/CD pipeline
Nice to have React, Selenium automation and cloud experience
Experience with Docker, Kubernetes and Istio
Linux and IP networking knowledge
Experience with AWS/Azure cloud services or equivalent
Experience with SAML, OAuth and OpenID Connect
Experience working on a SaaS product
Experience with Service Oriented Architecture
Knowledge of scripting languages such as Python, Bash or Groovy
On-call experience with production grade systems
Generative AI Code Assistants - Use of Generative AI Code Assistants (e.g. Github Copilot) and knowledge of latest Generative AI Model capabilities would be an asset
Has mentored others in a professional setting