Senior Full-Stack Platform Software Developer, Hootsuite
CA$115.4-161.6k
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Social media management tool
Job no longer available
Social media management tool
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
CA$115.4-161.6k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower organizations to build trust and deepen relationships through the power of social.
Role
Who you are
- We expect successful candidates to have a good understanding of JavaScript, TypeScript and React
- A degree in Computer Science or Engineering, and at least 5 years of experience in an SRE, DevOps or software engineering role and a track record of substantial contributions to software projects with high business impact
- Experience with mentoring, coaching, and pairing with coworkers
- Experience writing clean code that performs well at scale and an understanding of SaaS software development practice; Ideally you have experience working on a SaaS product
- Experience using infrastructure-as-code tools to build and run cloud infrastructure
- Experience in backend, devops and frontend development, ideally with experience in creating tools and services for other developers
- Collaboration and Teamwork: works with others to deliver results, meaningfully contributing to the team and prioritizing group needs over individual needs
- Creativity and Innovation: seek new and better ways of doing things, generating original and imaginative ideas, products, and/or solutions
- Problem Solving: uses an organized and logical approach to find solutions to complex problems and looks beyond the obvious to understand the root cause of problems and proposes several possible solutions
- Resilience, Tolerance for Change/Ambiguity: can effectively cope with change, finding ways to advance work and projects
- Solution seeker: You’re focused on tackling new challenges, solving problems, and moving the business forward—and you don’t wait to be asked
- Lifelong learner: You have a growth mindset – you’re here to learn, experiment, seek, apply, and provide feedback, share what works with your team, and move on from what doesn’t
- Resilient adapter: In the face of change and challenges, you bring a thoughtful, calm approach, and a focus on finding the new opportunity
- Intentional collaborator. You build positive working relationships across the business, bringing people together to foster new opportunities and to facilitate the efficient flow of information
- Critical challenger: You have the trust in your team to ask difficult questions in order to get to the best end result
- Active communicator: You listen actively and communicate ideas and information clearly, inclusively, and proactively
- Integrated thinker: You look beyond your role and responsibilities to understand how your team’s work drives broader organizational goals
- Accountable owner: You take pride in the work you’re responsible for with a mindset of ultimate accountability and reliability for the outcomes
- Bar-raiser: You step up to help your team grow and succeed, even when that means going beyond what might be expected
What the job involves
- In a specialized team with expertise in Hootsuite’s core platform services and tools
- This team is part of the DevOps group at Hootsuite
- In this role, you will be responsible for our network edge, client authorization, Kafka clusters and tooling, encryption, API and service tooling, and more
- The team is also responsible for a monolithic application, setting standards, improving ownership and tooling, and leading other teams on how to modernize the monolith
- The team primarily uses Go, Scala, and PHP and has expertise in technologies such as Kafka, various AWS services, and some infrastructure-as-code tools
- As a full-stack developer, your primary focus will be on backend development and DevOps tasks, but you will also be expected to collaborate with frontend teams and work on some frontend tasks
- In this role, you will report to the Manager, Software Development, Dev-Ops
- Design and build software - tools, libraries, automation, services
- Responsible for the reliability, security, and integrity of our large, cloud-based platform
- Practice continuous improvement, contributing to culture, process, and direction in your team and across our department
- Develop processes and automation to eliminate repetitive tasks
- Design and build our platform
- Identify and implement new platform features
- Research and evaluate new technologies
- Refactor, rewrite or retire existing platform features
- Operate our platform services
- Respond to incidents
- Diagnose and repair bugs
- Perform maintenance, upgrades, and migrations
- Control or eliminate repetitive tasks, alert noise, and business-as-usual work
- Enable development teams
- Provide executable interfaces to our platform
- Provide tools and best practices to support the entire software development lifecycle
- Work collaboratively within the team and across the organization to solve difficult and exciting cross-portfolio problems
- Get involved with various cross-portfolio developer groups in the org to help promote good practices and set better standards for other dev teams to follow
- Communicate by mentoring, writing documentation, participating in meetings, and sharing your work at demos
Our take
Hootsuite is a leading social media management platform that’s been around since the early days of this now-ballooning online sector. With over 25 million customers, and used by staff at over four fifths of the Fortune 1000, this giant is hugely competitive in the space.
Thought Hootsuite's plans for an IPO didn't survive the tough economic conditions of 2022, it managed to rework its priorities to get back on course. For example, its acquisitions of Sparkcentral and Talkwalker allowed the company to expand into customer service and integrate AI, respectively.
Hootsuite's offering nowadays supplies businesses with a social media performance engine to turn insights into action, all fuelled by artificial intelligence. Unfortunately, the company once again laid off staff during 2025, stating an investment in its future where decisions are made faster and ownership is clear.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-26% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Sep 2014
$60m
SERIES D
Aug 2013
$165m
SERIES B
Total funding: $246.9m
Company benefits
- 100% coverage on mental health-related treatments in North America. Culturally appropriate trauma counselling services
- A company-wide Wellness Week between July 5 to 12 where we can all “unplug” together
- Accidental death and dismemberment (AD&D) Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Disability Insurance
- Employee Assistance Program
- Gym / Wellness Reimbursement ($55 per month)
- Gym Discount
- Health Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Maternity Leave
- PTO (Vacation / Personal Days) - 20 days. After your two year anniversary, you get an additional two days each year until you reach thirty days (six weeks) at your sixth anniversary
- Paternity Leave
- Sick Time (for individual employee and family members)
- Bereavement Leave
- Business Travel Insurance
- Company Phones
- Fertility Assistance (Coverage for fertility treatments and gender affirmation surgeries)
- Immigration Assistance
- Phone Bill Reimbursement ($50 per month)
- Remote Work
- 401k
- Employee Discount
- Pet Friendly Workplace
- RRSP Matching
- Volunteer Time Off
Company HQ
South Main, Vancouver, BC
Leadership
Ryan Holmes
(Founder & Board Member)Previously founded interactive agency Invoke Media, served on the Board of Directors for Ariztia, and founded pre-seed fund LOI Venture.
Irina Novoselsky
(CEO)Previously Board Member at Lemonade and World Business Chicago, CEO at CareerBuilder and President at Novitex Enterprise Solutions.
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