Job Description:
BiblioCommons is a Toronto-based software company that builds SaaS solutions for public libraries. Our team is passionate about making public libraries accessible, delightful and engaging, while having fun at the same time.
A lot of companies tout 'social impact', here at BiblioCommons we serve millions of diverse users each month by partnering with public libraries in Canada, the US, and New Zealand. Libraries are more than just book stacks. They are public spaces that foster learning, connection and community and BiblioCommons is bringing that community online with clever software that powers the world's largest libraries.
Engineering @ BiblioCommons
Our engineering team puts the patron first by building user-friendly, accessible and scalable solutions that equip libraries to leverage best in class technology practices to serve their diverse communities.
We’re a highly collaborative team that applies innovative solutions to challenging problems. We believe strongly in shipping code early and often, and investing heavily in automation to make that possible. We’re also committed to doing things right and always looking for ways to do them better. We take the time to optimize and redesign systems to ensure they are robust and scalable.
We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer on our BiblioCore team to build new and existing platforms that will help millions of library users discover more physical and digital content. This is an exciting opportunity to design and implement challenging scalable and resilient systems, while being a technical leader and a mentor to the team. This role will also enable exercising leadership skills by leading projects, collaborating with multiple teams and making an impact on the growth of the business.
You will enjoy and be successful in this role if you are:
- Great at debugging distributed systems
- Not afraid to step out of your comfort zone and dive deep
- Accountable and take ownership of your work
- Awesome at teaching others your skills
- Delivery focused and giving your best effort all the time
- Creative and enjoys brainstorming ideas with others to come up with the right solution
- Supportive and enjoys working as part of a team
- Passionate to self-improve
- Never content with the status quo. You are always looking to automate, improve processes, and follow best practices
How you will make an impact:
- Build new platforms and improve existing systems to enable millions of users to discover and consume relevant library content
- Integrate and work with third party API solutions to augment BiblioCore functionality
- Guide the technical direction for technical initiatives to account for scalability, resiliency, quality and security of BiblioCore
- Take ownership for the design, development, and operationalization of features and systems
- Take ownership for the design, development, and operationalization of features and systems
- Tackle tech debt at the right times for faster feature delivery
- Troubleshoot and perform root cause analysis on systemic issues
- Participate in code review and best practice discussions
- Be a mentor to Junior and Intermediate Engineers
What you will bring to the team:
- 5+ years of professional backend software development experience
- Proven experience with: Spring, Maven/Gradle and related Java technologies
- Strong theoretical foundation in data structures, algorithms, and software engineering best practices
- Extensive experience building RESTful API applications and consuming third-party API integrations
- Experience debugging and optimizing large-scale, multi-threaded systems
- Have a mindset for end to end ownership of services
- Passionate, motivated, and capable of working autonomously
- Strong communication skills and collaborative across teams
- Knowledge of best practice industry techniques, tools and frameworks
Perks:
- Company-wide bonus plan
- Health, dental and vision benefits
- Flexible work week schedule
- An extra day off on your birthday
- Support growth through professional development allocation and career development plans
- Regular hackathons and all-staff get-togethers
BiblioCommons is an equal opportunity employer, we recruit, hire, train, promote and provide all other privileges of employment to qualified people without regard to age, race, colour, creed, national origin, gender, gender identity, gender expression, disability, marital status, citizenship status, ethnicity, familial status, religion, sexual orientation or any other classification for which discrimination is prohibited.
