Senior Software Engineer (Java)
Dext, Canada
Job Description
Who we are, what we do amp; why we do it
We are a leading fintech SaaS product company. Our suite of tools makes accountants more productive, profitable and powerful. In doing so we give them back the most precious commodity, time, which they can then use to add greater value to their clients.
Accountants and bookkeepers are the backbone of every successful business. For more than a decade we’ve empowered our partners with innovative technology solutions to make businesses better. Dext allows them to meet the challenges they face today, tomorrow and in the future.
Our developers play an integral role in development and maintenance of our products. As a Staff Software Engineer with Dext you'll have the opportunity to work with all aspects of the Dext product stack while gaining tremendous experience building and managing SaaS technologies at scale.
Requirements
As a Staff Software Engineer, you’ll help build and manage the core of Dext products, services and APIs including:
- Data aggregation from 3rd party APIs (such as Shopify, eBay, etc.)
- General Ledger and accounting integrations (QuickBooks, Xero, Sage, etc.)
- Dext developer platform (APIs)
You’ll get to work and manage other engineers to build new features that span various parts of the system. You’ll get to collaborate with our business, sales and operations teams to understand and solve our users’ pain points.
We’re looking for people with a strong background or interest in building successful products or systems; you’re comfortable in dealing with lots of moving pieces; you have exquisite attention to detail; and you’re comfortable learning new technologies and systems.
Candidates will be expected to:
- Build and manage enterprise grade applications using Java 11+.
- Strong background (5+ years) in designing, building, and maintaining APIs, services, and systems.
- Highly proficient with relational database and Big Data technologies including MySQL, Elasticsearch, and Cassandra.
- Highly proficient with Linux
- Have experience working within a microservice architecture and have experience with docker containers.
- Have experience with Javascript, HTML, and CSS.
- Debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack.
- Work with engineers across the company to build new features at large-scale.
- Hold yourself and others to a high bar when working with production systems.
- Take pride in working on projects to successful completion involving a wide variety of technologies and systems.
- Thrive in a collaborative environment involving different stakeholders and subject matter experts.
- Our ideal candidate will be ideally located near Royal Oak, Michigan, but we’re happy to bring on strong, remote candidates as well.
What you will be a part of:
We are a highly ambitious, innovative, market-leading FinTech. We are a global, well-funded business but have the dexterity and pace of a scale-up. We are uncompromising in our desire to achieve our best, day-in day-out, and we have three clear values which guide everything we do:
Be Brave - Everyone in the company has a voice to challenge ideas and the status quo.
Be Exceptional - We set high standards for ourselves. We aim to be exceptional at what we do.
Be Together - We are one team. There is no such thing as individual success without team success.
Benefits
- Health, dental, and vision benefits
- 401K plan with matching