Senior Software (SaaS) Developer

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About Blindside Networks

Blindside Networks has been developing BigBlueButton, a virtual classroom system that originated from Carleton University, to provide remote students a high-quality online learning experience anywhere in the world (

BigBlueButton itself is open source with over 7.2k GitHub stars:

We also create two supporting applications for BigBlueButton using Ruby on Rails, one for front-end and the other for creating scalable deployments:

Internally, much of our hosting and infrastructure applications are written in Ruby on Rails. We use rails a lot!

Blindside Networks is looking to hire a Senior Software (SaaS) Developer to join our growing Ottawa based team on a full-time basis. Reporting to the Director of Operations, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining applications and tools to support our SaaS environment.

Main Duties and Responsibilities of the Role

• Develop new and maintain existing features of our applications to support our SaaS business
• Recommend and review software architecture of new applications
• Develop and maintain deployment procedures and scripts
• Analyze cloud usage and recommend optimizations in cost and performance
• Assist customer support in resolving tier-3 issues
• Mentor junior employees (code reviews, review proposed implementations, etc…)

Qualifications, Knowledge Skills & Experience

• Proven experience as a senior developer in a similar role in a SaaS environment
• Strong knowledge of AWS services and infrastructure
• Expertise in Python and Ruby on Rails development
• Proficient in use of software development life cycle and best practices
• Fundamental knowledge of release management and release cycle
• Knowledge and awareness of privacy and security standards
• Experience with deployment and build tools
• Experience with BigBlueButton or similar online collaboration tools is a plus
• Experience in data science and prompt engineering is a plus
• Experience with WebRTC a plus
• Excellent problem-solving skills and a proactive attitude
• Strong communication and collaboration abilities

What sets you apart?

Alright, all the job posts you've read so far probably talk about the need for good communication skills, team player, internally motivated, reliability, and so on. Any software company would expect these skills from its developers.

We've found what sets exceptional developers apart is their problem-solving skills. How bothered are you when something isn't coded right? When you have a bug that is intermittent, difficult to reproduce, and needs to be solved?

In other words, when the answer is not on Stack Overflow, how deep is your toolbox for solving problems?

If you have strong Ruby on Rails development experience with exceptionally strong problem-solving skills (and you can give examples of how you solved some tough problems in the past), then you'll find the culture at Blindside Networks matches your development ethos.

We're interested to talk with you.