Every day, our software is used by millions of people around the world, and we are looking for individuals who share in our excitement and passion for transforming the way the world learns. 

IT Developers at D2L work in and across teams across the organization. In partnership with key business stakeholders, IT Developers look to release reliable, high-quality software solutions that enable strong business outcomes.

HOW WILL I MAKE AN IMPACT?

• Build and support high quality, high performing, scalable and secure solutions, while solving both technical and non-technical challenges. 
• Create, maintain, upgrade, and implement software code, coding guidelines, tools, processes, and metrics. 
• Perform code reviews, based on industry best practices 
• Contribute to team processes and actively participate in analysis, with ability to communicate technical information across teams. 
• Learn required technologies, standards and methodologies as required.  
• Support developed software as required, iterating on technical designs, and playing a role in deployment and addressing technical issues. 

WHAT IS D2L LOOKING FOR FROM ME?

Competencies:

• Curiosity – Developers should have a curious and investigative spirit
• Continuous Learning and Development: As a learning company, all members of D2L are committed to self-improvement, an eagerness to adopt new skills and technologies, and a passion for fostering a culture of shared knowledge and growth
• Ability to challenge decisions – Can disagree respectfully with others and actively participates in healthy debate
• Decision making – Knows and makes decisions based on their own, the team’s, department, or organizational priorities based on role. Using judgement to make decisions that are appropriate to both short- and long-term goals
• Communication – Demonstrated clear and effective verbal and written communication with coworkers, both real time and asynchronously, and knows when to use which mode of communication 
• Collaborative – Is a person that others want to work with, cares about clients, other team members, and other stakeholders’ needs. Can balance knowledge and goals to effectively collaborate intra-team as well as between teams or departments/divisions. Knows when it’s appropriate to receive and give assistance to other team members
• Detail minded – Consistently pays attention to details and notices even when small things are incorrect
• Problem solving – Demonstrates consistent problem-solving skills, adept at deconstructing complex issues, leveraging data for decision-making, and innovating creative solutions beyond conventional options
• Strategic thinking – Can apply existing knowledge, think ahead and then pull in other people as appropriate and solve future problems before they exist

Skills:

• Coding – Ability to demonstrate proficiency in core technologies leveraged  (i.e.:  SQL, AWS, Azure, etc.)
• Actively learns and adopts the technology and tools defined by the team
• Consistently pushes new features and bug fixes to improve and extend the system
• Debugging – Can read code effectively to reason out where a bug lies, knows where to begin investigations into problems and takes a pragmatic approach
• Architectural Design – works with team members to understand how to architect their code
• Security – Understands security best practices and implements best practices as required
• Privacy – Understands PII and how we need to handle private data
• Organization-Can follow existing and create new patterns to improve data/knowledge organization across team, department, and company as a whole

Suggested Qualifications/Experience:

• Desire to build – Developers should be driven to build and refine. Knows when to build things well and when to build things quickly
• Focus on Quality – We expect that all developers have a strong focus on delivering high quality code and features
• Experience with source control (GitHub) and working in CI/CD environments (GitHub Actions) is considered an asset.
• Experience with Cloud Hosting (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, etc.) and infrastructure-as-Code, such as Terraform or CloudFormation, considered an asset.
• Strong Computer Science fundamentals including OO design, data structures, algorithms, databases, distributed systems, security, caching, human computer interaction.