Full-Time

Senior Software Developer

Backend

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Hootsuite

Hootsuite

1,001-5,000 employees

Social media management and marketing platform

Data & Analytics
Consumer Software
Entertainment

Senior

Denmark, WI, USA

Category
Backend Engineering
Software Engineering
Required Skills
Agile
Java
Data Analysis

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Degree
Experience
Requirements
  • A degree in Computer Science or Engineering, and significant relevant experience in designing, developing and maintaining software or an equivalent level of work experience, and a track record of substantial contributions to software projects with high business impact.
  • Ability to foster and challenge existing patterns and best practices in delivering code and tests via stories and epics that impact the team or multiple teams.
  • Independently use root cause analysis to identify and address bugs and outages. Foster and challenge logging, monitoring and debugging best practices across groups of services and apps.
  • Foster and challenge architecture concepts and best practices and independently apply these practices to create new services and apps that meet system performance, modifiability, maintainability and reliability needs.
  • Foster and challenge security and compliance practices in daily work.
  • Foster and challenge agile processes and continuous integration and delivery practices to ship stories and high complexity epics/projects.
  • You can collaborate and communicate effectively within and across departments. Lead technical discussions, listen actively and have two-way non-technical discussions with design and product. Able to represent the team across disciplines.
  • Independently seek guidance, feedback, and learning opportunities from across the development organization to foster personal and professional growth. Support peers and more junior devs growth, prioritizing skill transfer.
  • Display eagerness to learn and collaborate on goal-setting. Independent in creating goals aligned with personal development and supported in aligning some goals with team goals.
  • Understand business and technical value behind roadmap projects and lead development scoping/project analysis. Can align business and technical requirements to bring proposals for projects to the team. Deliver on roadmaps effectively by communicating individual and epic-level risks and opportunities.
  • 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
  • Customer Focus: demonstrates a desire to proactively help and serve internal/external customers meet their needs.
Responsibilities
  • Deliver cross-domain projects, actively promoting architectural improvements for scalable solutions, and design code to bolster state of the art best practices, system security, accessibility, and privacy measures.
  • Lead comprehensive testing strategies to enhance system reliability, and resolve complex issues in live environments. Oversee and uphold efficient observability measures to ensure continuous monitoring remains effective.
  • Take ownership of complex projects, ensuring timely delivery, swift escalation of any blockers encountered, and collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment and successful execution.
  • Advocate for technical solutions, foster consensus among stakeholders to move projects forward, and represent the team in high-level meetings, ensuring transparency and alignment with project objectives.
  • Showcase your work to over 2,000 paying clients and more than 100,000 free users.
  • Experiment with new ways of exposing data to clients to provide high-performance analytics.
  • Facilitate team growth through mentorship, foster a culture of excellence, and pursue personal growth while contributing to the development goals of the team and organization.
  • Identify technical opportunities aligned with team and project goals, proactively mitigate associated risks, and provide strategic insights to optimize roadmap efficiency and achieve significant business impact. Collaborate with Data, Search, and other Product & Technology teams to influence business and product delivery in a flexible company structure.
  • Develop and refine core technologies using your strong Java development skills.

Hootsuite is a social media management platform that helps businesses manage their online presence by allowing them to create, schedule, and publish content across multiple social media networks from one dashboard. It features AI-generated captions, a unified inbox for customer engagement, and advanced analytics to track performance and return on investment. Hootsuite stands out from competitors with its comprehensive tools for content creation, social listening, and customer interaction management. The company's goal is to empower businesses to enhance their social media marketing efforts and drive growth.

Company Stage

Debt Financing

Total Funding

$240.2M

Headquarters

Vancouver, Canada

Founded

2008

Growth & Insights
Headcount

6 month growth

0%

1 year growth

0%

2 year growth

-1%
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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Acquisition of Talkwalker enhances Hootsuite's analytics and social listening capabilities.
  • Growing demand for AI-driven tools aligns with Hootsuite's AI capabilities.
  • Recognition in TrustRadius' 2023 Best Of Awards highlights strong customer focus.

What critics are saying

  • Emerging competitors like TikTok's Symphony Creative Studio challenge Hootsuite's market share.
  • Integration risks from Talkwalker acquisition could disrupt operations.
  • Increasing marketing costs for SMBs may reduce spending on platforms like Hootsuite.

What makes Hootsuite unique

  • Hootsuite offers a unified social media inbox for streamlined customer engagement.
  • The platform provides AI-generated captions and hashtags to enhance content creation.
  • Hootsuite's advanced analytics offer comprehensive insights into social media ROI.

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