Full Stack Software Engineer - Platform

Description

The Company:

Push is an all-in-one platform that helps businesses grow and scale their companies by simplifying HR, payroll, time tracking, and scheduling. Our purpose is to help our customers free up their time by making people management ridiculously easy, so they can focus on their passion.

Our customer base includes some of the biggest brands, such as Earls Restaurant, Cactus Club, Denny’s and more.

The Team:

We’re a group of animal-loving and social people who prioritize competency and efficiency, but put even higher stock in personable and positive individuals that mesh with our culture and are willing to grow with us. As part of our rapidly-growing team, you will play an important and unique role in our mission to create the best people management system for our customers so they can spend more time doing what they love.

The Role:

Push is looking for an experienced Full Stack Software Engineer (back end focus preferred) who loves tracking down tricky bugs, untangling thorny refactors, and uncovering performance bottlenecks, thus contributing to the overall reliability and smooth operation of the Push web app. In this role, you will have the ability to tackle a wide range of technical challenges and make a big impact on some of the most critical aspects of our business.

Location:

Recently the world has changed so we are changing with it. We’re embracing new ways of working and are constantly adapting our practices to ensure that from wherever you are working, you feel a part of the team and have everything you need to work comfortably. We are a remote-first company. Pushies can choose to work remotely or from our Downtown Vancouver office.

We are considering eligible candidates for this role from any location in Canada with a sufficient time zone overlap with our Vancouver team.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Using information from monitoring systems to pinpoint issues
• Bringing old code into line with new standards
• Helping build and scale back-end services and APIs
• Infrastructure maintenance and scaling tasks, including infrastructure-as-code
• Working with internal teams to find and implement innovative solutions to current bottlenecks in workflows
• Writing, testing, and reviewing high-quality, maintainable code

Why Push?

• Do what you love! It’s the key to happiness. That’s why at Push we aim to create a supportive environment to help foster your passion for work, and keep you feeling energized and happy so you can do more of what you love.
• Grow yourself. We want to see you win in all areas. At Push, our mantra is: you will grow professionally and personally. We drive conversations around your personal and professional goals. Let’s crush it together.
• Make an impact. At Push, we believe everyone is born a genius, and our responsibility is to develop that genius within. Impact is our key metric - that’s why we challenge Pushies to show up as their authentic selves while creating a legacy.

Check out our About Us video: https://www.pushoperations.com/careers

Additional Information

At Push, we place value on different types of experiences. If your experience looks a little different from what we’ve listed but you think you’re a good fit, we would still love to hear from you.

We celebrate diversity and promote equal opportunity. We appreciate what makes each of our team members different and encourage you to apply, no matter who you are or how you identify.

Salary: $90,000 - $125,000 CAD annually

Requirements

Required Skills and Qualifications:

• 5+ years professionally building web applications
• High level of proficiency and experience with at least one of PHP, Python, Ruby, Go, C/C++ or C#
• A strong understanding of relational databases and SQL
• A strong understanding of computer science concepts, e.g. data structures, design patterns, and algorithms
• You understand the importance of writing testable and maintainable code
• A track record of building and maintaining highly scalable products
• You are curious and innovative, and love solving puzzles elegantly

Bonus Skills and Qualifications

• PHP experience using Laravel or any other MVC framework
• AWS RDS/EC2 experience
• Packer/Ansible familiarity
• Javascript experience - ES6, Webpack, Angular, React JS, React Native
• Knowledge of payroll in Canada and/or the USA
• Experience working on internal tools involving various teams within an organization
• Experience working on a DevOps or Platform team stitching together various technologies, services, APIs, and/or languages to achieve a goal
• A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent work experience