Senior Software Engineer (Ottawa)

JOB DESCRIPTION

This position is responsible for the design, execution, assessment, security, and troubleshooting of software programs and applications. This includes configuring, coding, developing, and documenting software specifications throughout the project life cycle. In addition, the Software Engineering stream provides day-to-day operations and production support, including off-hours problem resolution of supported applications.

Strategy and Planning

• Evaluates priorities, design goals, risks, options, and compromises and recommends most suitable approach.
• Familiar with architectural patterns that contribute to the production of secure, reliable, manageable, and high-performance solutions.
• Performs architectural modelling to assist in determining solution efficacy.
• Performs estimating, prioritizing, planning, and coordinating of work to reliably and consistently deliver according to plan.

Acquisition and Deployment

• Direct research on emerging application development software products, languages, and standards in support of procurement and development efforts.
• Performs detailed technical design of proposed solutions.
• Evaluates relevant risks and determines mitigation strategies.
• Identify requirements and manage the procurement process and vendor selection for new technologies.

Operational Management

• Develop and review software programs, code, and unit tests for new and existing applications and systems, ensuring functional and non-functional requirements are met.
• Develop, and maintain supporting documentation as required.
• Gather statistics and prepare and write reports on the status of the programming process for discussion with management and/or team members.
• Recommend, schedule, and perform software improvements and upgrades for optimal performance of company workstations.
• Perform troubleshooting and root cause analysis in support of incident and problem management.

Recommended Options

• Participates in development, implementation, and maintenance of plans to ensure continuation of critical operations in the event of a disaster or interruption.
• Provides ongoing system maintenance and monitoring to ensure adherence to SLAs.

Required Skills and Experience

• 5+ years as a full stack developer in an Agile setting
• .NET/.NET Core/ASP.NET
• JavaScript/TypeScript
• Vue 2 or 3
• Node.js/Express
• MongoDB
• RabbitMQ
• Docker
• Test frameworks like jMeter and Cypress
• Azure DevOps, CI/CD, Container-based Deployments
• Strong experience with REST APIs

Nice to Have Skills and Experience

• Test frameworks like jMeter and Cypress
• Postman
• HTML, CSS
• SQL database experience

We may use artificial intelligence tools to assist with the screening, assessment, or selection of potential applicants for this position.