Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Hootsuite is looking for a Junior Software Developer who can design, build, test, and ship high quality software that delivers value to customers. The role involves working on a small and agile team to deliver low-complexity projects, engage in team activities, and troubleshoot issues while following established coding and design standards.
Responsibilities
- Deliver low-complexity projects ensuring alignment with coding and design standards, testing practices, and company guidelines for security, accessibility, and privacy
- Contribute to the successful execution of the team’s roadmap by asking questions, providing input, and promptly escalating identified risks and scope changes
- Actively engage in team activities, working out loud, learning from peers, contributing to code reviews and documentation as you work towards achieving team goals
- Actively engage in troubleshooting, addressing minor bugs independently, and collaborating with senior team members to resolve more complex issues
- Work within a cross-functional team, fostering positive team relationships, and maintain effective communication with peers and stakeholders
- Use modern web technologies to have a positive impact on developer workflows and infrastructure
- Repositories that are majority Typescript, and React and are depended upon by other development teams across the company (with exposure to a variety of other technologies such as Scala and GO services)
- Work with Jenkins, our CI/CD platform, to improve developer experience and support delivery of a reliable, high-quality product—contributing to pipeline maintenance, optimization, and automation efforts
- Assist in the investigation and execution of technical initiatives that drive meaningful, sweeping improvements across our software development lifecycle—helping the team move faster and ship with greater confidence
- Engage with our dependency management tooling and internal package ecosystem to keep our codebase secure, current, and well-maintained—contributing to decisions around library adoption, upgrades, and deprecation
- Gain broad, hands-on exposure to the full spectrum of tools, technologies, and architectural decisions that underpin modern front end development—think of it as front end DevOps, where you’re as comfortable with the build pipeline as you are with the product itself
Skills
- A degree in Computer Science or Engineering, and 1-2 years of experience developing and maintaining software (including co-op terms and internships) or an equivalent level of education or work experience
- Learn and follow existing patterns and best practices in delivering code and writing tests for individual stories
- Ability to learn about and use root cause analysis to identify and address bugs and outages
- Follow logging, monitoring and debugging best practices in the components and classes you work on
- Learn and follow existing architecture concepts and best practices to extend existing software modules and components that meet system performance, modifiability, maintainability and reliability needs
- Learn about and follow basic security and compliance practices in daily work
- Follow common agile processes and continuous integration and delivery practices to ship stories and own low complexity epics/projects
- You can collaborate and communicate effectively within a team
- Participate in technical discussions, listen actively and understand non-technical input from design and product
- Actively seek guidance, feedback, and learning opportunities within the team to foster personal and professional growth
- Display eagerness to learn and collaborate on goal-setting
- Supported in creating and aligning goals with personal development
- Understand roadmaps and participate in delivering on them effectively by communicating risks and opportunities at the individual level
- Customer Focus: demonstrates a desire to proactively help and serve internal/external customers meet their needs
- Perseverance: pursues everything with energy, drive, and a need to finish—doesn't give up
- Resilience, Tolerance for Change/Ambiguity: can effectively cope with change, finding ways to advance work and projects
Company Overview
Hootsuite is a platform for managing social media presence and analyzing audience engagement. It was founded in 2008, and is headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia, CAN, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is https://hootsuite.com.