Senior Software Engineer, Canoe

• You are a full stack software engineer with 6 to 8 years of experience designing and implementing robust applications at scale using a modern PHP framework
• You have proven experience leading others in a technical leadership or senior engineering role to efficiently deliver business value
• You have excellent verbal and written communication skills and are able to effectively work with technical and non technical audiences
• You have experience with event-driven, data-centric architectures built on relational databases, microservices and, preferably, Kafka (or another similar event driven architecture)
• You can normalize a data schema as easily as you can design an event payload, while steering the team away from common pitfalls
• You apply clean code standards and SOLID principles in your day to day work, and provide constructive feedback guiding others to do the same
• You are as comfortable working in a highly collaborative environment, as you are individually contributing value to the organization

Desirable

• Canoe is seeking a senior software engineer to join our Application Development team
• This team is responsible for the technical vision, support and development of Canoe’s next-generation web applications
• In this role you will design and develop high quality code, participate in cross functional and project leadership, and ship mission-critical products and features powering Canoe’s continued hypergrowth and leadership in the alternative investments industry
• Develop and Support high quality and modern software using Vue, Typescript, Kafka, PHP, Laravel, MySQL and PostgreSQL
• Lead and provide support for cross-functional, dynamic project teams responsible for delivering high quality products on time and within project scope
• Translate business requirements for new products and features into technical designs that enable efficient implementation by you and your teammates
• Seamlessly integrate new solutions into Canoe’s distributed, event-driven architecture through careful design of Kafka events, payloads and consumers
• Review and provide constructive feedback on technical designs and code produced by your teammates
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of Canoe engineering through proactive brainstorming, presentation of ideas and mentoring