Senior Backend Engineer

Overview
Modes is a digital transformation and organizational design collective working with various clients throughout North America. Our focus is on financial services. We help clients plan, design and launch digital human-centred experiences that cater to users  needs and deliver elegant solutions to challenging problems. We constantly seek top talent to join our growing team and support our clients with innovative solutions.

We currently have a Senior System Engineer position open. If you are interested in the opportunity and Modes sounds like a fit, then go ahead and hit that APPLY BUTTON.

In this role, you will work with customers and our technology partners on implementation projects across North America. How would you guide them to success?

Responsibilities

You have experience designing, building, and deploying mission-critical technical services at a large scale;

You have experience supporting production systems and dealing with production issues;

You have experience designing and implementing systems and processes for software development teams, including source control, configuration management, continuous integration, continuous delivery, and/or infrastructure as code;

You have experience identifying and resolving issues in workflows and processes in software development teams;

You have outstanding written and verbal communication skills and you work well with your team, not just alone;

You have solid skills in a significant fraction of these tools, languages, and technologies:

Qualifications / Technical Skills

Package and dependency management, such as:

Maven / Gradle / Ant or similar Java dependency management system

NPM or similar Node package manager

Apt / Yum / APK / homebrew or similar OS package managers

Cocoa Pods / Carthage / Swift or similar package manager for iOS

Container registries such as Docker Hub

Generic artifact repositories such as JFrog, Nexus, Artifactory

CI/CD pipeline systems, such as:

Jenkins

Git Hub Actions

Azure Pipelines

ArgoCD

CircleCI

GitLabCI

Scripting / programming / automation / software development - proficiency in any of these:

POSIX Shell scripting (BaSH, etc)

C / Python / Ruby / Rust / Golang

Java or JavaScript a bonus

Docker or a comparable container engine / runtime

Kubernetes or a comparable container orchestration solution:

Kubectl or comparable CLI

Manifest files, Helm, or comparable packaging/deployment solution

Open Shift, EKS, GKE, AKS, or comparable hosting solution

Bonus points for experience with the finer points of overlays or mesh networks in Kubernetes, such as Istio

UNIX / GNU / Linux operating system fundamentals

Especially environment variables/shell processes

For deploying and supporting Java server applications:

JVM tuning

Tomcat, JBoss, or another application server

Spring Boot or similar framework environment

For deploying and supporting JavaScript web applications:

HTTP headers, cookies, and caching

Nginx, Apache, or another webserver

Angular or similar framework environment

Network protocols and systems, especially:

DNS

HTTP/S

mTLS

TCP

UDP

SSH

Public Cloud Hosting / Platforms - some significant experience, including automation using API or CLI, with at least one of:

AWS

Azure

GCP

IBM Cloud

VMware Cloud or any comparable on-premises cloud

IBM Relational Databases - any of the following:

MySQL

MS SQL Server

Oracle DB

Bonus:
Infrastructure and configuration management as code, such as:

Terraform

Ansible

Chef

Puppet

You hold a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent training/experience

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Perks and Benefits

Market Competitive Salary

Enhanced Personal and Family Benefits Plan (Health, Dental, Life, Disability and Travel)

Generous Vacation and Flex Day

Home office setup allowance

Training allowance and Ongoing Learning opportunities

Community Partnership Opportunities

Remote Work

Modes is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against protected characteristics; we embrace the diversity of our global team members and the strengths and experiences they bring to Modes, our clients, partners and vendors.