Senior Software Developer (Connections)

Job Responsibility: Loopio is a workplace that unleashes learning & growth opportunities for our Loopers. We provide autonomous, challenging work that allows each employee to master their craft. We attract and retain people who are naturally curious, have grit and are eager to grow and build their careers. At Loopio, we genuinely support each other, because true success comes from working as #oneteam. Loopio is looking for a supportive and endlessly curious Senior Software Developer to join our talented Software Engineers in our Connections team. You'll be on a mission to bring Loopio features to the other tools our customers already use by building integrations and APIs. If you are an adaptable software engineer who always looks at opportunities to improve your mastery, and enjoys working in a fast-paced collaborative environment, you will be successful in this role.

What You'll Be Doing

• Leading and rapidly building end-to-end features from scratch for Loopio's web platform
• Proactively build features and implement tests to prevent bugs.
• Interact with and gather detailed feedback from our customers because you understand that creating a user-centric experience comes first
• Using your expertise and curiosity to plan and develop integrations.
• Leading technical design discussions and facilitating technical decision-making. Experience as a technical lead is a bonus!
• Mentoring and coaching developers on the team, providing technical guidance and helping foster an environment of knowledge-sharing and feedback
• Collaborating closely with our Product Managers and Product Designers in an agile environment to bring features to life and iterate on them based on our customers' feedback
• Contributing to the transition of our application to a service-based architecture

What You'll Bring to the Team

• 6+ years of professional software development experience
• Strong knowledge of back-end development using languages like PHP, Python or Java (PHP preferred), with a great grasp of Object Orientation Programming (you know classes, objects, inheritance and others similar concepts).
• You are familiar with Design patterns and SOLID principles.
• Proficient in using and designing RESTful APIs, knowing the difference between different methods, response codes and design of proper RESTFul endpoints.
• Strong understanding of testing best practices (Unit, E2E, regression)
• Strong understanding of RDBMS such as MySQL (you have a good understanding of the SQL language and how to create queries without the help of ORM's).
• Working knowledge of front-end frameworks such as React or Vue (React preferred)
• Comfort guiding technical design discussions and facilitating technical decision making
• Mentorship to other engineers through coaching, design, code reviews
• A growing passion for driving processes and improving software development productivity for your team
• Experience with agile development using Scrum or Kanban
• Experience in the following is a plus: AWS, Monolithic and Microservice Architecture, Cypress, Elasticsearch and Codeception.

Where You'll Work

• Loopio is a remote-first workplace because we recognize the advantages of working flexibly. We have Hub Regions spanning across Canada, UK, and India, which means that employees live and work remotely within a 300 KM radius of Toronto (within Ontario),Vancouver (within British Columbia), Ahmedabad (within Gujarat), Pune (within Maharashtra), and London (UK) and work within regular business hours in their timezone.
• You'll collaborate with your teams virtually (we're just a Zoom call away!) and have established core sync hours and focus time during the workday to enable us to work smarter together

Why You'll Love Working at Loopio

• Your manager supports your development by providing ongoing feedback and regular 1-on-1s
• You have tons of autonomy and responsibility: this role provides an opportunity to try new things and push creative boundaries
• You'll learn more than you thought was possible; our team is obsessed with personal and professional growth (every Looper receives a professional mastery allowance each year)
• You'll be set up to work remotely with a MacBook laptop, a monthly phone and internet allowance, and a work-from-home budget to help get your home office all set up!
• Join us in regular company socials, AMA (Ask-Me-Anything), and quarterly kick-off to celebrate the big wins and milestones as #oneteam!
• You'll be joining a culture that has thoughtfully built out opportunities for connections in a remote first environment.
• We have Employee Resource Groups, various fun virtual activities, and many more moments for us to have fun and learn together!
• You'll be a part of an award-winning workplace and one of Canada's fastest growing companies with ample opportunity to make a big impact here!

We recognize that all too often, potential candidates don't apply for a position simply because they don't hit every single criteria included in the —particularly members of underrepresented groups. Whether or not your experience checks off all the boxes on a job posting, we still encourage you to apply to ensure that your application receives a review from our team. We understand that a resume can only showcase so much during the applicant stage, so we've created prompts in the application for you to share more about yourself. If you've made a career transition (or a few!), you're self taught in a new role, or you have skills/experience you'd like to highlight, we want to hear more about what you could bring to the table. Loopio is an equal opportunity employer that is deeply committed to building equitable workplaces that are diverse and inclusive. We actively encourage candidates from all backgrounds and lifestyles to consider us as a future employer. Please contact a member of our Talent Experience team (View email address on ca.edajobs.com) should you require accommodations at any point during our virtual interview processes.