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SWE – Fullstack – Devx
| Company | Velocity Global |
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| Location | Toronto, ON, Canada |
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| Salary | $218000 – $272000 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | Bachelor’s, Master’s |
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| Experience Level | Senior |
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Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- 5+ years of professional experience in software engineering, with a strong focus on Internal Tools or Platform Engineering within a cloud native architecture.
- Experience with TypeScript, Postgres, and AWS (Lambda, EKS, DynamoDB, RDS PgSQL, API Gateway, S3, etc.).
- Solid understanding of software design patterns, microservices architecture, and RESTful APIs.
- Experience with CI/CD systems (e.g. GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CircleCI, GitLab CI)
- Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g. Terraform, Pulumi) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)
- A strong sense of developer empathy and a passion for optimizing engineering workflows
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with a team-oriented mindset.
Responsibilities
- Analyze and enhance the software development lifecycle (SDLC) to improve developer efficiency and satisfaction
- Build and maintain internal tools and services that streamline code building, testing, deployment, and observability
- Collaborate with engineering teams to understand pain points and develop solutions that improve day-to-day productivity
- Lead initiatives to standardize and improve CI/CD pipelines, development environments, and build systems
- Champion best practices in code quality, automation, and observability
- Instrument metrics and feedback loops to continuously evaluate the effectiveness of developer tooling
- Contribute to documentation and onboarding resources to make development more intuitive for new engineers
- Lead by example in writing clean, maintainable, and efficient code. Contribute to technical discussions, design reviews, and code reviews to maintain high engineering standards.
Preferred Qualifications
- Successful experience managing the community-to-customer lifecycle across complementary open source and commercial offerings.
- Experience working on platform or internal developer tooling teams
- Familiarity with monorepos or large-scale codebases
- Knowledge of performance profiling, test optimization, or build caching
- Experience with observability tools (e.g. Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog)
- Contributions to open-source developer tools
