We’re looking for an Intermediate Software Developer, Frontend who can design, build, test, and ship high quality software that delivers value to our customers. You’ll work on a small and agile team that continuously incorporates feedback to refine and improve the products and features you deliver. You will maintain established patterns and best practices to independently deliver high quality work as part of the team. The team will own the entire delivery lifecycle from beta releases to production ready, scalable products suitable for new and existing customers. In line with Hootsuite’s distributed workforce strategy, our flexible work arrangement allows for remote work or a hybrid model. This role is open to applicants located in British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario or New Brunswick. In this role, you will report to the Senior Manager, Software Development. 

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

• Successfully deliver medium complexity epics within a service or front-end application, ensuring alignment with current architecture.
• Coordinate and conduct rigorous integration testing to guarantee smooth interplay among diverse components. Uphold adherence to coding and design standards, in alignment with company directives pertaining to security, accessibility, and privacy.
• Autonomously triage and address bugs and outages of medium complexity. Uphold observability standards by maintaining and refining logging dashboards, supported by senior developer assistance when necessary.
• Take full responsibility for projects, collaborating closely with product and design to plan and execute effectively. Proactively identify and escalate risks, collaborate on scope changes, and offer insights to optimize roadmap efficiency.
• Establish good work relationships and participate constructively in technical discussions. Incorporate feedback to optimize code quality, and facilitate collaborative code reviews.
• Work with technologies and tools such as: TypeScript, Javascript, React, Redux, Scala, Go, Php, MongoDB, Grafana, Sumo Logic, Jira, Prometheus, Kubernetes, Terraform, Jenkins, Jest, React Testing Library, Sauce Labs, Html/CSS, Content Management System and Content Deployment Network vendors, and A/B testing tools.

WHAT YOU’LL NEED:

• At least 3-5 years of experience in developing and maintaining software or an equivalent level of education or work experience, and a track record of substantial contributions to software projects with high business impact.
• Ability to Independently maintain existing patterns and best practices in delivering code and tests in stories and epics that impact the team. Ideally, you have experience with Typescript, React, Redux and A/B testing tools; experience with Go (or another backend language) or enterprise CMS and CDN systems is a bonus.
• Independently use root cause analysis to identify and address bugs and outages. Can maintain and use logging and debugging best practices across services and apps.
• Independently maintain existing architecture concepts and best practices to build new components and classes or extend existing services and apps that meet system performance, modifiability, maintainability and reliability needs.
• Independently maintain basic security and compliance practices in daily work.
• Independently maintain agile processes and continuous integration and delivery practices to ship stories and own medium complexity epics/projects.
• You can collaborate and communicate effectively within and across teams. Participate in technical discussions, listen actively and have two-way non-technical discussions with design and product.
• Independently seek guidance, feedback, and learning opportunities from across teams to foster personal and professional growth. Support juniors and new team members growth.
• Display eagerness to learn and collaborate on goal-setting. Independent in creating goals and aligning them with personal development.
• Understand business value behind roadmap projects and participate in development scoping/project analysis. 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

WHO YOU ARE:

• Tenacious. You are determined to succeed, and you are motivated by the success of customers, colleagues and the community
• Curious. You are always learning and seeking ways to make things better
• Conscientious. You keep your promises, taking your commitments to others seriously, and you have strong integrity
• Humble. You lead with humility and empathy, respecting and learning from the perspectives of others

In all we do, our six guiding principles light the way:

Step Up: Show the world what it looks like to live and work by these guiding principles. #StepUp

One Team: Make Hootsuite a place where everyone feels safe, welcome, valued, and empowered to do their best  work without compromising who they are. #OneTeam #FreeToBeMe

Customer Obsessed: Focus relentlessly on helping our customers succeed. #CustomerObsessed

Go Fast, Be Agile: Widen our competitive advantage by committing to speed and simplicity over perfection and complexity. #GoFastBeAgile

Play to Win: Commit to building an incredible, profitable company for our customers, our employees, and our stakeholders. #PlayToWin #NoExcuses

Neighbours & Allies: Give back to our communities and be an ally. #SocialForGood #Allies

Accommodations will be provided as requested by candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

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