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 leading the technology revolution in the Canadian commercial insurance industry by making it easy, quick, and affordable for startups, self-employed professionals, contractors, and small businesses to get insured.
They are looking for a Staff Software Developer in Brazil and Colombia to join their team as independent contractors, with the opportunity to relocate to Canada after the first three months and help meet the goal of creating a robust platform.
As a Staff Developer, you will leverage a significant technical background to consult the Engineering Group’s technical strategy in accordance with the organizational culture of iterative, autonomous development and deployment. Working closely with the Engineering Managers, Product Managers and Tech Leads, you will design and implement the systems and infrastructure that support the Engineering Group’s needs. This is an architect-level position, and you’ll be involved in some of the complex solution design discussions.
Responsibilities:
- Drive and encourage conversations based on product strategy and engineering principles to create alignment
- Recognize product opportunities and differentiators in the commercial insurance domain
- Enable product growth and raise throughput by changing technical strategy or constraints
- Define and prioritize areas of technical debt and bugs, taking into consideration outcomes of the incident management process and addressing them with the Engineering Group
- Consult the team into a culture of iterative deployability with awareness of cycle time and failure rates
- Design and document solutions that adhere to best practices, company requirements, and other system requirements determined at the start of each project
- Understand the breadth of services, how they interact, and data flows between systems
- Consult the team into a culture of architecture that allows for iterative, autonomous development and future scaling
- Anticipate future use cases and participate in design decisions that minimize the cost of future change
- Adhere to the organization's security strategy using a security-first mindset
- Improve the stability and performance of applications using operational data, using an observability mindset
- Use a systematic approach to debugging to diagnose issues within the application
- Write unit tests as well as higher-level tests to ensure application quality and stability
- Ensure code meets defined acceptance criteria and consistently evangelize and educate team members about established best practices
- Consistently produce production-ready code that is easily testable, easily understandable, and accounts for edge cases and errors, using comments and other documentation strategies where appropriate
- Perform other duties as assigned
Your qualification
- University degree or college diploma in a recognized technical, vocational or academic program or equivalent work experience
- 10+ years of experience building rich, complex APIs
- 7+ years of building front-end web applications using modern Javascript frameworks
- Extensive full stack experience working with React/Redux/Node/Typescript/MongoDB and Javascript
- Experience architecting and augmenting large software systems
- Experience mentoring other developers in a complex software development environment
- Extensive experience with the Scrum framework and Agile methodologies
- Familiarity with DORA metrics to measure the DevOps Performance, and experience in communicating what’s been measured to the client
- Familiarity with goal-setting frameworks such as OKRs to make sure you, as an independent contractor, are delivering high-quality work and meeting expectations
- Experience with Javascript development toolings such as WebPack, Babel, and Storybook
- Experience with testing frameworks like Jest/Mocha
Will be a plus
- Experience working with test automation frameworks like Nightwatch, Selenium, and BrowserStack
- Experience building and/or working with micro-services and micro front-ends
- Experience using Salesforce CRM
- Experience using infrastructure tools like Terraform and AWS
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