
Software Engineer Lead - Senior Software Engineer
- Mississauga, ON
- Permanent
- Temps-plein
As Backend Engineer, you will work on one of the world's largest social media platform which deals with a few petabytes of data coming to the system daily. You will contribute as part of R&D self-organized team working in a challenging, innovative environment for our client.
Investigate, create, and implement the solutions for many technical challenges using cutting edge technologies, including building/enhancing machine learning platform enabling work of software used by hundreds of millions of users.Your role
- Obtains tasks from the project lead or Team Lead (TL), prepares functional and design specifications, and approves them with all stakeholders.
- Ensures that assigned areas are delivered within set deadlines and required quality objectives.
- Provides estimations, agrees task duration with the manager and contributes to project plan of assigned area.
- Evaluating existing data systems.
- Developing the best practices for data coding to ensure consistency within the system.
- Updating and optimizing local and metadata models.
- Evaluating implemented data systems for variances, discrepancies, and efficiency.
- Troubleshooting and optimizing data systems.
- Understand the business drivers and analytical use-cases and translate these to data products.
- Design, implement and maintain pipelines that produce business critical data reliably and efficiently using cloud technology
- Addresses area-level risks, provides and implements mitigation plan.
- Reports about area readiness/quality, and raise red flags in crisis situations which are beyond his/her AOR.
- Initiates and conducts code reviews, creates code standards, conventions, and guidelines.
- Suggest technical and functional improvements to add value to the product.
- Constantly improves his/her professional level.
- Collaborate with other teams.
- University degree in Computer Related Sciences or similar
- 5+ years of experience as backend engineer.
- Solid Python and Java coding skills with 5+ years of experience.
- Established relational DB systems experience (MySQL)
- Experience with distribution systems
- Ability to organize and document solutions
- A passion for streamlining systems and processes to make the difficult trivial
- Strong OOP skills
- Effective communication (oral & written), collaboration, and interpersonal skills
- Experience with AWS, Apache Spark and ML frameworks and libraries
- Flexible work
- Healthcare including dental, vision, mental health, and well-being programs
- Financial well-being programs such as 401(k) and Employee Share Ownership Plan
- Paid time off and paid holidays
- Paid parental leave
- Family building benefits like adoption assistance, surrogacy, and cryopreservation
- Social well-being benefits like subsidized back-up child/elder care and tutoring
- Mentoring, coaching and learning programs
- Employee Resource Groups
- Disaster Relief