Intermediate Software Developer (4+ years) - Remote across Canada

Description

Join one of the world’s fastest-growing advisory companies, proudly serving over 30,000 IT professionals. 

Why McLean & Company? McLean is a place where your voice will be heard – a place where you will see the impact of your work with our 30,000+ members. It is a place where you will find community and collaboration, where you will work with diverse individuals with their own unique stories and experiences. McLean is a place where success is celebrated by the whole team – a place where you are encouraged to stretch and grow.

You’d be joining a team of like-minded individuals in a work-hard / play-hard culture, where what you as an individual bring to the team is highly valued. Continued learning is a major part of our best-practice-driven environment, so we support our teams with a substantial budget for training and career development. We’re also very into work / life balance, so after-hours and weekend work are rare to non-existent.

You will work in a highly collaborative team that functions efficiently even in a remote work setting. You will have flexibility to work from home, at the office (located in London / Toronto Ontario and quite fun), or in a hybrid mode.

We offer great competitive salaries, benefits plan, and RRSP matching plans. 
This role will be on the payrolls of the parent company, Info-Tech Research Group but will be responsible for working on projects for McLean & Company.

Our stack is built with Ruby on Rails, MySQL, and JavaScript frameworks. No experience with Ruby on Rails is required; developers should expect continued learning in their career, and we’ll support you as you get up to speed. We are open to hire exceptional candidates across Canada!

The intermediate software developer will translate software requirements into workable programming code and build scalable web applications that solve a variety of problems for our clients. This role will also assist in architectural decisions and leverage their technical knowledge to build solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Use a variety of programming languages and development tools to build, test, implement, and support the development of web software applications
• Collaborate and interact with interdisciplinary teams (interactive designers and software developers) to identify and resolve issues, review and complete projects
• Participate in an agile software development framework; proactively find and address areas of concern and identify potential roadblocks
• Assist in estimating resource needs and timelines to complete short and long term projects as well as daily operational tasks
• Assist in clarifying stakeholder requirements; communicate questions and address concerns; provide relevant and detailed updates and feedback in a timely manner
• Design appropriate technical solutions based on requirements provided while taking into account timelines and future re-use ability

Education and Experience

• Minimum 4 years of experience in a professional software development role
• Post-secondary education in Computer Science, Application Development, or Information Technology (nice to have but not required)
• Any certification is an asset

Skills

• Solution Design - Ability to define and describe an architecture of a system and understand the cause and effect of their coding
• Collaborative communication skills (written and oral) - Ability to convert technical concepts into non-technical
• Backend Development - Some experience and applicable knowledge in backend development in any language (Ruby, PHP, .NET, etc.), relational databases, writing and optimizing queries (Postgres, MySQL, etc.)
• Development from specs - Ability to find requirements and break them down into an actionable execution plan for the team and proactively identify problems.
• Frontend Development - some experience and applicable knowledge with HTML 5, CSS3 or Java Script

Info-Tech Research Group of companies is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion and does not discriminate on the basis of any legally protected status or characteristic including Minority/Female/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/Disability/Veteran and are pleased to consider all qualified applicants. To that end, upon request, ITRG will ensure, to the extent possible, that accommodation be made available to applicants throughout the recruitment and hiring process.


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