Senior Software Engineer II (Full Stack), Analytics & Automation (Remote Canada)

Having surpassed $300M ARR and continuing to grow, Optro helps enterprises transform risk into opportunity through its AI-powered GRC Intelligence Platform. More than 50% of the Fortune 500, including 7 of the Fortune 10, leverage our award-winning technology to move their businesses forward with greater clarity and agility. And our customers love us: Optro is top-rated on G2.com and Gartner Peer Insights.

At Optro, we inspire each other to innovate and are proud of what we are producing. We spend each day thinking of new ways to help our customers and contribute to the greater good of our company and our surrounding communities. We are all about assisting each other and breaking through barriers to create the most loved audit, risk, ESG, and InfoSec platform by our customers. This is how we have become one of the 500 fastest-growing tech companies in North America for the seventh year in a row, as ranked by Deloitte!

We are looking for a highly motivated senior software engineer who can lead large, strategic, and complex projects. This position demands a high level leadership, mentoring other engineers and helping to design and architect scalable solutions. In this role, you will face a huge array of challenges - from building scalable systems to designing new product features. Our ideal candidate is someone who loves to collaborate with others but can also work independently to take an idea from concept to implementation. We're a hardworking, energetic team that is passionate about our customers and believes that to be successful we should never stop learning: learning about our customers, our product, and how to build better software.

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  Build and ship product features end-to-end

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  Ability to write clear and well defined design documentation

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  Mentor fellow engineers

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  Lead application architecture decisions

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  Troubleshoot, debug and resolve software bugs

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  Implement back-end APIs in Python and Node.JS

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  Work on our React, Vue, Ember SPA front-ends

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  Collaborate with engineers, designers, and product managers

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  Participate in an Agile software development life cycle

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  Write well-designed, maintainable & testable code

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  Be product-minded and think about the customer

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  Work with Python, Django, TypeScript, Node.JS, React, Ember, Docker, PostgreSQL, Terraform, Kubernetes, etc.

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  Contribute to open-source projects

• 8+ years of experience developing web based applications

• Experience guiding high quality work through delivery across multiple developers

• Experience with a web framework such as Django or Rails

• Experience with a modern front-end framework (React, Vue, Ember, Angular, etc.)

• Experience writing REST / JSON APIs (Swagger / OpenAPI Spec)

• Experience writing software tests

• Ability to solve technical problems independently

• B.S., M.S., or PhD. in Computer Science or equivalent

• Motivation to work hard and always be learning

• Experience with infrastructure as code tools, such as Terraform

• Experience with Node.JS and modern ES6 or TypeScript

• Experience with React or Ember.JS

• Experience with cloud computing platforms, such as AWS

• Experience working on SaaS web applications

• Bonus: Docker or Kubernetes experience

• Customer obsession: It starts and ends here. Consistently ask yourself how what you’re doing creates value for our customers. It’s a mindset.

• Gritty resilience: Make it happen. Find a way. Move fast, stay positive, and do what it takes.

• Drive innovation: Create the future. Continuously improve what exists and invent what’s next.

• Win, together: One team. No silos, no egos. Drive to be the best and support each other’s success.

• Growth mindset: 10x, not 10%. Think in orders of magnitude, not increments. Seek feedback, learn, and improve.