Associate Engineer

The primary role of Engineering function within Product Development team is to create specifications and designs for new products or improvements and enhancements to existing products. Works closely with customers, developers and other stakeholders to understand and define customer needs in these designs. Features are aligned to a timetable and areas of responsibility. Developers may solicit customers for feedback regarding product usability and desired future enhancements. Software Engineers who design, write and test code for the product should be matched in the either Software Engineering Applications or Systems. Product developers who specialize in hardware systems should be matched to Hardware Engineering.

Let’s talk about Responsibilities

• The primary objective of Software (App) Engineering specialization within Engineering(PD) Job Family is to build best-in-class, cloud-native and mobile applications that are reliable, scalable, secure and simple to use.
• Key responsibilities include writing code that is optimized for high performance, high availability, and scalability; creating and executing software development processes that enable us to meet product system requirements; completing documentation, supporting deployments and maintenance; performing testing and debugging of applications; supporting applications in production.
• Performs work in a specialized area of expertise that requires knowledge of fundamental themes, principles and concepts. Typically requires a university degree or equivalent work experience.
• Responsibilities might include:
  
  (1) Performing routine professional-based activities (early in career)
  
  (2) Contributing to and managing projects (mid-career)
  
  (3) Providing advice/direction in primary areas of expertise (specialist and expert)
  
  (4) Leveraging professional expertise and relationships to contribute to strategy and drive business results (principal)relationships to contribute to strategy and drive business results (principal)
• Builds stable working relationships internally to exchange information.
• Receives instruction, guidance and direction from others.
   

Let’s talk about Qualifications and Experience

Skills:

• Assist in the design, development, implementation, and deployment of AWS cloud solutions.

• Assist in the development of high-performance, scalable, and resilient web applications, back-end services, and database solutions.

• Assist in providing incident management, change management, application support, monitoring, and Tier 2 support as part of the full cycle team responsibilities. 

• Pair with senior developers to design software solutions.

• Participate in code reviews, following coding standards and best practices, including secure coding guidelines.

• Write clear, well commented, and easy to understand code.

• All engineers are expected to place a strong emphasis on writing automated tests, including unit tests, integration tests, and end-to-end functional tests.

• May be part of an on-call support rotation.

• Other tasks and responsibilities as assigned.

• Strong object oriented design and programming skills.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

• Experience with Amazon ECS, EKS, IAM, or Amazon EC2 is an asset.

• Experience working with and managing container development, deployment and operations on AWS.

• Experience developing serverless applications using AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, SNS, SQS, S3.

• Experience with Git, GitHub, Confluence, and JIRA is an asset.

• Experience with GitHub CI/CD workflows and infrastructure as code tools (e.g. Terraform) is an asset.

• Experience working with, or an understanding of, NoSQL and relational databases is an asset.

• Experience with test-driven development (TDD) is an asset.

• An understanding of 12-factor applications and cloud-native principles is an asset.

• Experience with various message brokering architectures (pub/sub queues, request/response) and data streaming is an asset.

• AI, Machine Learning, and Data Engineering experience is an asset.

• Experience in Java (especially Sprint Boot) targeting Linux and Linux containers and application types (e.g. console, service, web site, REST API).

• Experience with front-end frameworks (especially React) and web servers (e.g. Apache, Nginx, IIS).

• Experience with testing frameworks (e.g. Junit, Nunit, Selenium), and testing tools (e.g. JMeter, Postman, Cucumber)

Preferred:

• Bachelor’s degree.
• Minimum of 2 years of related experience.
• Follows standard practices and procedures and applies basic theories, concepts, principles and methodologies in analyzing situations or data.

Joining us is more than saying “yes” to making the world a healthier place. It’s discovering a career that’s challenging, supportive and inspiring. Where a culture driven by excellence helps you not only meet your goals, but also create new ones. We focus on creating a diverse and inclusive culture, encouraging individual expression in the workplace and thrive on the innovative ideas this generates. If this sounds like the workplace for you, apply now! We commit to respond to every applicant.