Senior Software Developer, Clio

• This role is for someone with deep database expertise (MySQL/Postgres), passionate about building robust, scalable database systems, and eager to tackle innovative challenges
• This role is available to candidates across Canada. If you are local to one of our hubs (Burnaby, Calgary, or Toronto) you will be expected to be in office minimum two days per week for our Anchor Days
• What Your Team Does:
• You are equally energized by both your own technical work as well as contributing to the career growth of your team
• You have strong opinions that are weakly held, and foster that same attitude in others
• You challenge and enable your team to take initiative, explore, and implement new improvements while balancing that work against satisfying the requirements as defined by the business
• You believe in providing honest, actionable feedback to your team, and encourage your team to reciprocate
• You devise roadmaps to guide the future of our datastores infrastructure in terms of scale and data security
• Backend development experience
• MySql and/or PostgreSQL expertise
• Experience investigating and solving performance problems
• The ability to optimize query performance
• A portfolio of successful projects (as well as a collection of lessons learned from failed projects)
• Demonstrate a keen interest in improving your craft by using AI

Desirable

• We’re looking for a Senior Software Developer, Databases to join our Systems Engineering, Production team
• As a key player, you’ll focus on optimizing, maintaining, and evolving our MySQL infrastructure to support high-performance, mission-critical applications
• This is a unique opportunity to be exposed to diverse technologies and make a measurable impact
• You’ll be responsible for preparing Clio’s database infrastructure for the future in terms of scale and reliability
• You will collaboratively define the roadmap to support business goals, and satisfy application requirements
• You will investigate and solve performance problems with our MySQL databases and other data stores
• You will use your experience to guide development teams on how to improve and optimize their use of the databases
• You will scope, define, and collaborate with developers to implement automation and processes that power reliability of Clio’s datastores
• You will work with the SRE team and help develop their MySQL knowledge
• What Your Team Does:
• We build, secure, and maintain the infrastructure and critical services that power Clio’s core applications
• We help Clions make data-driven decisions by providing observability and transparency for all of our environments
• We collaborate with the Clio product development teams to build tools that improve workflows and remove manual labor or friction points