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:
· Identify, prioritize and execute tasks in the software development life cycle
· Work with business to iterate over software requirements
· Develop tools and applications by producing clean, efficient code
· Automate tasks through appropriate tools and scripting
· Analyze and debug 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:
· Experience writing clean code that performs well at scale using Java
· Experience with Spring Boot
· In-depth knowledge of relational databases (e.g. Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL)
· Solid experience writing RESTful API endpoints
· Absolutely love TDD and have working knowledge of it
· Proficient in GIT
· Experience using system and performance monitoring tools (e.g. New Relic, DataDog)
· Experience with automated testing frameworks (e.g. Selenium, Cypress, RestAssured)
· Excellent organization, critical-thinking and personal leadership skills
· Self-starter with the ability to deliver with minimal supervision
· Being okay with the uncomfortable feeling that comes from learning new things
· Team player
· Analytical mind with problem-solving aptitude
· Proven experience as a great Engineer
· BSc/BA in Computer Science or a related degree
Bonus points for:
· Experience with UI development and frameworks (e.g. Vue.js, React, Angular)
· Nice to have React, Selenium automation and cloud experience
· Experience with Docker, Kubernetes and Istio
· Experience with Ansible
· Experience with Jenkins CI/CD pipeline
· Linux and IP networking knowledge
· Experience with AWS/Azure cloud services or equivalent
· Experience with SAML, OAuth and OpenID Connect
· Experience working on a SaaS product
· Experience withService Oriented Architecture
· Knowledge of scripting languages such as Python, Bash or Groovy
· On-call experience with production grade systems
· Has mentored others in a professional setting
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