Senior Software Engineer

Job Description

Working at Venue.sh (part of The Adaptavist Group)
Venue.sh is a DevOps platform hyper-focused on the Developer Experience. It allows teams to work collaboratively and cohesively in building and deploying code to any destination and ensures everything you do is repeatable and scalable.
Our mission is to distill the latest concepts and experimentation in the DevOps field into a unique and valuable experience for developers. We aim to make a wonderfully smooth journey from ideation to product delivery to production, where the developer can focus on code while our platform handles all the tooling, glue, and relating it all together. And it all starts with you!
Working at Venue.sh is unlike any other job you’ve ever had. We trust you from day one. We encourage curiosity. We champion diversity. We’re never afraid to try something new.
Excited yet?
Our flexible, remote-first way of working means that you can now fit work around your life, instead of trying to fit your life around work. You can even take as many holidays as you want. Yes, really!
As part of The Adaptavist Group, we make up a family of brands that combine people, processes, and technology to make businesses better.
Offering trusted consultancy, app development, training, hosting, and licensing, we believe our unique and open culture underpins our status as the go-to partner of choice within the Atlassian Ecosystem.
Some of our benefits include:
- Unlimited paid vacation - RRSP - we match up to 4%- Flexible working- Udemy online learning- Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Leave- Employee assistance programme- Volunteer days- Healthcare through Trinet including Medical, Dental, Vision, EAP- Free online streaming service subscription
About the team
The Venue.sh core team is an eager bunch of individuals coming together to build awesome solutions as part of the Venue platform. We span the gamut from highly technical developers to visionaries trying to predict the next big thing.
Our members are based in the USA, Canada and the UK, and we’re now looking for our latest hire to join us remotely in Canada. We’re constantly looking to evolve our product and striving to provide a platform for each other so we’re able to do our best work day in, day out. We pride ourselves on being a technically strong, supportive and friendly semi-autonomous team.
About the role
Do you want to work alongside a talented Software Engineering team working on a world class product? Are you geeking out about the latest software development frameworks? What is your reputation score on StackOverflow?
You will contribute and lead engineering best practices within the Venue.sh team to guarantee the reliability and scalability of our product. You will also be responsible for driving technical discussions on frontend engineering, but not be limited to the stack. As a Senior Software Engineer, you mentor your peers and work together towards technical problem-solving, code quality review, and feature discovery. The Venue.sh engineering team works closely with the product and design teams. Your involvement in requirement refinement and investigation is critical. This is an individual contributor role where expertise in the software development lifecycle (SDLC) is highly valued in building a DevOps platform with optimal developer experience (DevEx).

What you'll be doing

• Designing, building, and supporting our product
• Leading engineering best practices to ensure product reliability and scalability
• Owning and driving new frontend functionality from discovery, design, implementation, testing, deploying, and maintenance through CI/CD
• Participating in the team's agile methodology
• Acting as a mentor to your peers within the team and work together towards technical problem-solving, code quality review, and feature discovery
• Bringing frontend technical expertise to product and design discussions
• Collaborating with other engineering teams in The Adatpavist Group for research, solution finding, and sharing best practices
• Identifying potential risks in the codebase and advocating for resolutions to protect the product and its users
• Taking the lead in identifying and fixing security vulnerabilities and setting up preventive measurements
• Following and helping improve the defined processes and strategies

What we're looking for

• Strong full-stack development experience in JavaScript and/or TypeScript
• Experience in working with a Design System
• Design, develop, and maintain web applications and APIs
• Experience with unit testing and test automation libraries/strategies
• Comfortable executing the SDLC, including automated testing, and CI/CD practices
• Knowledge of RDBMS and NoSQL systems and the ORM frameworks that interact with them
• Understanding of service-oriented architecture, how to build RPC and REST API endpoints, as well as a comfort level of working with other published APIs and incorporating them into solutions
• Understanding of high-availability, fault-tolerant, scalable, distributed systems
• Create technical and functional/end-user operational documentation for the software or system
• Experience with the Backstage.io product/APIs (A bonus!
• Experience working with DevOps and Platform engineers (A bonus!)
• Passion for the latest trends in application design and Interest in learning more about new languages and frameworks (A bonus!)

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