Software Engineer; Back-end Focus

Requisition
4733
-Posted
- None
-5-7 yrs experience

- Lodge Link

- Calgary, AB, CA

- Technology
- Work Arrangement (1)

Lodge Link is inviting Staff Software Engineers in Calgary to join our team to be part of the creation of the future of workforce travel. We are looking for talented leaders with a passion to impact the entire tech organization, who enjoy learning about the latest technologies, strong critical thinking skills, and a user-focused approach.

As a part of the software engineering leadership, you will join an agile, audacious, inventive, collaborative, and dependable team with a bold and opinionated vision of how we use technology to solve business problems. You will own and execute the technical vision and system design decisions on how the product is built, deployed, and operated on production. Specifically, you will collaborate with other software engineers and engineering leaders in designing new cloud‑native solutions and rearchitecting existing ones.

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will focus on back‑end development and be comfortable around both front‑end and back‑end coding languages, development frameworks, third‑party libraries, and modern system design patterns such as event driven, DDD, and microservices. Our current cloud stack includes GoLang, ReactJS, NodeJS, gRPC, GraphQL, Cosmos DB, PostgreSQL, Docker, all fully running on Azure cloud, plus a few more things.

The ideal candidate is a Senior Software Engineer and Technical Leader with deep expertise in modern full‑stack architecture. They are passionate about building scalable, cloud‑native applications, enjoy solving complex technical challenges, and have experience with modern design patterns such as microservices, event‑driven architecture, and domain‑driven design. They thrive in collaborative Agile environments, take ownership of technical direction, stay current with emerging technologies, and are committed to delivering exceptional user‑focused solutions.

• Your job #1 is to make the software engineering team better through doing, mentoring, and sharing. You are a role model.
• You will enforce the best coding practices while being a strong advocate and innovator for continual improvement. Your codebase will be better every sprint.
• You will create the tools and templates so that all the other developers will say “wow, this is easy.”
• In the next few years, you will scale our platform to manage over 1,000 times the current load while keeping the up‑time at 100%.

• 10+ years of full software development lifecycle experience and still have a curiosity and are malleability to learn new ways. At least 3 years as staff engineer level or higher.
• 10+ years of mastery of SDLC, SOLID Principles, Data/Behavior/Test Drive Development, and a love of Clean Code and of clean architecture.
• 5+ years of experience with modern technologies such as GoLang, GraphQL, gRPC, microservices, and No
  
  SQL are assets. It's okay not to know all of these technologies, we know you can learn fast because you know the principles and have strong software engineering foundations
• 10+ years of proven application of cloud development patterns and best practices with multiple years in tech leadership roles.
• A proficiency in cloud‑based architecture and automated release pipelines because you done this for more than 7 years.
• 7+ years focused on an API‑first approach expertise with loosely coupled systems, and domain driven.
• An advocate for and experience in effectively managing and planning technical debt so that ours do not grow.
• A commitment to leaving code/processes/people better than when you got there.
• An attitude and pride in quality code and have multiple approaches towards testing.

Lodge Link, a Black Diamond Group company headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, Canada is more than just a digital marketplace and ecosystem for crew travel; we’re a caring tech company on a mission to transform workforce travel. Our digital platform is the key to unlocking seamless solutions for finding,…