Advanced relocation package
About Global Skills Hub
Global Skills Hub helps international technical talent to find jobs with Canadian companies and relocate to Canada.
We match developers from all around the world with suitable remote or relocation jobs with Canada's top tech companies. We exclusively partner with employers that are open to sponsoring your visa costs and we also help with the entire immigration process.
We're on a mission to solve one of the biggest challenges for high-growth companies across Canada: the shortage of highly skilled and experienced technical talent.
At the same time, we are committed to helping tech professionals integrate into a safe and diverse environment, that ensures a path to a thriving life and career.
P.S. We don’t charge our candidates any fees.
Position
Our hiring partner, based in Toronto, is focused on transforming accounts receivable efficiencies and accelerating companies’ cash flow by connecting AR teams with their customers over the cloud. Through their network they make billing and payments easy for buyers and sellers, reducing costs and eliminating paper, checks, and manual business processes.
They are looking for a Senior Ruby on Rails Software Engineer to join their team while working with a talented group of engineers to ensure the delivery of quality code on time while helping to streamline processes and optimize workflow. This is a unique opportunity for focused engineers with a dedication to the craft and an eagerness to improve teams. You will work to deliver new features, fix bugs, reduce tech debt, help level-up less experienced developers via code reviews and mentoring, and help shape and drive team culture.
Responsibilities:
- Get stuff done: Keeping meetings and distractions to a minimum so you can focus on delivering code
- Grow those around you: Review PRs to educate others of best practices, pair programs with people who are stuck on a problem, ensure the team is following agreed upon standards
- Design solutions: As needed, work closely with the Implementations Team to turn customer needs/pain points into actionable work with technical designs
- Help define and implement future architecture: Help create an architectural roadmap to future proof our app and make that plan come to life
- Focus on NFRs: Ensure having the right level of resiliency, logging, monitoring, security, etc.
- Support production: Help debug/diagnose/triage emergency production issues (luckily rare)
Your qualification
- Education & Experience: 3+ years of experience with RoR and Javascript. B.S. Computer Science, Mathematics, or related fields are preferred but not necessary. Familiarity with SaaS applications and the FinTech domain are a plus
- Vision: An insatiable desire to make the team awesome; a drive to identify and seize opportunities for wins both in the code and in how the team works
- Technical Expertise: A strong understanding of programming patterns, best practices, long term software maintenance, software architecture, and how to balance best vs. practical
- Collaboration: Work closely with others to achieve team goals. Understand how to give feedback appropriately. Mentor/coach via pair programming if needed
- Technical Oversight: Ensure that the code is appropriately optimized (avoiding n+1 queries, etc.), appropriately structured, appropriately formatted, that technical decisions made are right, that the code is well-tested, and that we aren't introducing technical debt
- Humility/Teamwork: Succeed as a team, fail as a team. Promote a blameless culture. See teammates as equals
- You’ve got a background in computer science, engineering, and/or mathematics with 7+ years of experience in software engineering under your belt. Also having written software in an agile test-driven culture that has shipped to market
- You’ve got a strong knowledge of and practice in a variety of technology spanning, algorithms/data-structures, languages (e.g. Ruby, Java, React.js, SQL), and benchmarking tools/techniques
What we offer
Relocation package:
- Visa services (work visa sponsorship)
- Assistance in getting a work permit
- Airport pick-up
- Adaptation tips
- Assistance in finding rent/accommodation
- Flight coverage