Principal Software Engineer

Company: PointClickCare
Location: Ontario
Posted on: February 26, 2021

Job Description:

PointClickCare is the leading cloud-based software provider for the senior care market in North America. Driven by a passion for innovation and technology, we build innovative healthcare technology for seniors and their caregivers that improve their quality of life and well-being on a daily basis. Recently named one of Deloitte's fastest growing technology companies and Canada's best managed companies, PointClickCare provides vast opportunities and a great culture for our employees. We believe work is much more meaningful when you're doing it with a higher purpose. For more information on PointClickCare, please connect with us on--Glassdoor --and--LinkedIn . Principal Software Engineer Have you ever wanted to be engaged as a technical leader in defining and building a completely new large-scale SaaS platform? Are you passionate about finding solutions to complex technical issues that can scale and perform against challenging business and customer objectives? Would you be excited to work on projects that bring actual, tangible benefits to millions of people in real-life health-care situations every day?-- PointClickCare is searching for a Principal Software Engineer who will contribute to best practice application development by writing and rigorously defending production-grade code on a regular basis, while also encouraging and optimizing the daily execution of technical excellence across an empowered Scrum team. This is a hands-on leadership role, requiring the ability to design and implement features from the ground-up while mentoring other team members and delivering both business and technical objectives through ambiguity and uncertainty. To succeed as a Principal Software Engineer at PointClickCare, you need to be collaborative, adventurous and passionate. Collaborative means that--you're enthusiastic about jumping in to help achieve the team's top priorities, no self-promoting politicians allowed. Adventurous means that you're not afraid to dive into uncharted technical territory and get your own hands dirty while supporting and driving delivery of complex features through a dedicated Scrum team.--Passionate means that you're eager to learn and share knowledge that drives the team forward and excited to be part of a movement that is positively impacting the lives of seniors and their caregivers all over North America. What your day-to-day will look like: --Work closely with the engineering manager and provide technical guidance in software design and development activities by mentoring other team members and encouraging best practices --Demonstrate expertise and passion for evidence-driven engineering in all activities and act as a reference point to drive team ownership and accountability --Develop applications by producing clean, efficient, production-ready code --Write unit and integration tests to ensure code quality --Help architect, design and build high-quality software --Identify, prioritize and execute complex tasks in ways that are rigorous, scalable and performant, and that support team development and growth --Work with business stakeholders to understand and iterate over software and business requirements --Automate tasks through appropriate tools and scripting --Analyze and debug complex systems --Perform validation and verification testing in a test-driven manner --Review the work of others, and invite others to review your work --Collaborate with internal teams and vendors to fix and improve products --Ensure software is up to date with latest technologies What qualifications we're looking for: --Exceptional coding abilities --Excellent organization, critical-thinking and personal leadership skills --Self-starter with the ability--to deliver with minimal supervision --Analytical mind with problem-solving aptitude --Solid experience as a Senior Software Engineer for Microservices/Cloud. --Extensive experience with multiple technical languages, ecosystems and platforms --Deep experience integrating frameworks into core engineering practices --Experience using system and performance monitoring tools (e.g. New Relic, DataDog, AppDynamics)-- --Experience with automated testing frameworks --In-depth knowledge of relational databases (e.g. PostgreSQL, MySQL) --Experience with--Service Oriented Architecture --BSc/BA in Computer Science or a related degree --Linux knowledge --Experience with containerization and virtualization-- --Experience with building large scale SaaS software --Knowledge with scripting languages such as Python --Knowledge with CI/CD pipeline --Knowledge with NoSQL databases It is the policy of PointClickCare to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, religion, national origin, status, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or domestic/civil partnership status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by law. PointClickCare welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process. When you apply for a position, your information is processed and stored with Lever, in accordance with Lever's Privacy Policy . We use this information to evaluate your candidacy for the posted position. We also store this information, and may use it in relation to future positions to which you apply, or which we believe may be relevant to you given your background. When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your information, we will either delete or anonymize it. If you have any questions about how PointClickCare uses or processes your information, or if you would like to ask to access, correct, or delete your information, please contact PointClickCare's human resources team here recruitment@pointclickcare.com --

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