What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Back-End Engineer, GenAI Core Platform (Remote from Brazil) position at Questrade Financial Group?
What’s in it for you as an employee of QFG?
Health & wellbeing resources and programs
Paid vacation, personal, and sick days for work-life balance
Competitive compensation and benefits packages
Career growth and development opportunities
Opportunities to contribute to community causes
Work with diverse team members in an inclusive and collaborative environment
We’re looking for our next Senior Back-End Engineer. Could It Be You?
The Senior Back-End Engineer will be involved in the development of functionally rich applications and productization of our internally built GenAI core platform and data science models. The engineer will work through all stages of the Agile software development life cycle from inception to implementation and collaborate with cross functional teams including Data Scientists, QA and other software engineers in the implementation of back-end services. The ideal candidate for this role should be able to thrive in dynamic environments, have a strong work ethic, positive energy and the ability to innovate.
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Developing, automating tests, debugging back-end services
Reviewing peer code to ensure quality and correctness of solutions
Enhancing and modifying existing applications as needed to add new features or improve user-experience
Diagnosing and troubleshooting problems with existing applications
Interacting with data scientists, developers, QA testers, product owners and others in order to understand requirements and scope of work
Has expertise working on and supporting a complex hybrid (cloud and on-premises) infrastructure environment
Playing active role in defining and implementing best practices, standards and procedures including quality and delivery methodologies
Helping the team to estimate work efforts for user stories, including determining requirements, dependencies and risks
Conducting research and developing proof of concepts
Participating in and contribute to all Agile Scrum ceremonies
Collecting system performance and metrics to enable monitoring and operation
Designing and architecting components on solution level and system APIs
Assist with the hiring of new members joining engineering teams
Helping on the growth of other team members by providing guidance, feedback, code reviews and mentorship for less experienced team members
So are YOU our next Senior Back-End Engineer? You are if you…
Bachelor’s Degree in engineering, computer science or equivalent experience
Complete understanding of object-oriented programming and SOLID principles
Solid understanding of different design patterns and when to apply them
Advanced knowledge and experience with Python and ideally some experience .NET Core/C#.
Experience building REST APIs and the OpenAPI Spec.
Experience with relational and object-oriented databases, and how to consume, manipulate and optimize applications that deal with large datasets
Experience with unit testing (xUnit, nUnit, Jasmine, Jest or similar)
Experience with OIDC and OAuth2 standards and how to implement them
Experience integrating services with third-party vendors
Experience with real-time communication (Sockets, Firebase, gRPC)
Knowledge of Agile (SCRUM/Kanban) development practices
Additional kudos if you have…
Strong analytical and problem solving skills
Strong organization, communication, and interpersonal skills
A strong commitment to upgrading technical skills on an ongoing basis and a willingness to share their knowledge with others
A relentless drive to get things done
Sounds like you? Click below to apply! #LI-DM1 #LI-Hybrid