Senior Back End Developer

About Us

Since 2014, Spring Financial has been simplifying the lending process for millions of Canadians facing all types of financial circumstances. Spring offers a growing range of financial products and services which currently include personal loans, mortgages, credit cards and secured loans - all of which are made available to Canadians without having to visit a branch!

We are high-energy entrepreneurs who operate with a real sense of urgency. We have created some of the best-in-market products and sales processes, allowing millions of Canadians to get access to financing online, via text, or over the phoneall from the comfort of their own homes! To learn more about our products, please visit our website here: www.springfinancial.ca.

Role Overview

As a Senior Back End Developer, you will play a key role in exciting new projects aimed at helping Canadians simplify the lending process and make it as stress-free as possible. You will collaborate with the existing backend team to regularly create and develop internal projects and applications.

NOTE: This is a full-time, on-site position located at our downtown Vancouver office.

What Youll Be Doing

• Developing, enhancing and maintaining in-house, and customer-facing applications

• Focusing primarily on backend work with PHP/Python/Javascript
• Work on 3rd party integrations with partner systems in the financial industry
• Working in backend frameworks such as Laravel, Django, Express etc.
• Our tech stack is PHP/Laravel for the backend and Vue/Nuxt on the frontend
• Newer services are now built serverless (node/python runtimes) in AWS
• Implementing serverless and containerization platforms on AWS
• Ensuring cross-browser, cross-platform, and/or cross-device compatibility for inconsistencies
• Mentoring and leading junior/intermediate developers
• Ensure sufficient code coverage by writing effective unit tests
• Creating technical content for JIRA tasks/sub-tasks, breaking down complex requirements
• Socialize JIRA stories/tasks you are responsible for with team members
• Actively participate in architectural systems design along with senior team members
• Working closely with project managers, quality and business analysts to ensure the completion of projects on time with the quality expected
• Being part of exciting multidisciplinary projects that might require interaction with Front End, Data Science, DevOps teams.

What You Should Already Have

• 4 years of professional experience with either PHP, Python
• 4 years experience with Javascript
• 2 years with modern JS framework (Vue, Angular, React, Nuxt)
• 4 years experience with Linux
• 5 years with a relational database such as MySQL, Postgres
• You know your way around Git and have worked in GitFlow
• You have experience with using and building REST-style APIs, and GraphQL
• Experience with backend MVC frameworks (Laravel 8-11)
• Experience working under Agile methodologies (Scrum, SAFe, Kanban) using Jira and confluence
• Bonus: AWS knowledge, especially the serverless stack (SAM, Serverless)
• Bonus: NoSql experience in Dynamodb, MongoDB, Cassandra
• Bonus: E-commerce (Shopify) experience and payment gateway integrations
• Bonus: Responsive layouts are no problems for you with or without grid frameworks
• Bonus: Experience with CSS3 advanced features such as animations, transitions, flex-box, etc.

What we offer:

• A competitive salary and growth opportunities.
• Extended health, dental and vision benefits
• Training by successful managers (who have excelled in the job themselves) is provided at the onset and throughout your journey with Spring Financial.
• Exposure to a wide range of systems and a professional team that will allow you to learn and put in practice your skills at best.
• A collaborative culture where you can easily adapt and start making contributions early on.