Sr. Software Engineer, Backend & DevOps; Askuity division

Pay Range: $110,000 - $140,000

At The Home Depot Canada, we want you to feel valued and supported. The pay range you see represents base salary only. In addition, your total rewards may include: semi-annual bonuses tied to business performance;
Deferred Profit-Sharing Program to assist with retirement savings; comprehensive paid benefits; a 15% discount on Home Depot stock purchases; and merit-based salary increases. We are committed to recognizing your efforts and supporting your growth with us.

With a career at The Home Depot, you can be yourself and also be part of something bigger.

Position Overview:

Askuity is a Toronto-based retail analytics software company operating as a division within The Home Depot (THD). Through our supplier analytics program, Askuity’s mission is to enable suppliers and merchants at The Home Depot to make profitable, data-driven decisions and drive real-time execution.

Askuity is seeking a highly motivated and technical versatile Senior Backend Engineer that can perform both Backend Developer and Dev Ops duties. This is a crucial, hybrid role that will operate at the intersection of development and operations, owning the entire lifecycle of our critical operations. As a member of the development team at Askuity, you will drive the technical direction of our industry leading analytics platform that has a meaningful and immediate impact on our growing customer base.

If you’re committed to great work and are constantly looking for ways to improve the systems you are responsible for, then we’d love to hear from you.

Key Responsibilities:

Code Development

• Get deeply involved in our technical direction while delivering well-tested, performant, and maintainable code for our data powered SaaS platform
• Contribute to the entire application development lifecycle
• Deploy and run software in Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Evaluate new technologies and assess their suitability to solve challenges of today and into the future

Partnering

• Gain an understanding of the real-world problems of our users to help build a great product that exceeds the expectations of our customers
• Collaborate with product stakeholders to understand, design, and implement product features and realize our product vision to help our customers make better sense of their retail data
• Agile Scrum

Competencies:

• Action oriented
• Decision quality
• Collaborates
• Communicates effectively
• Drives results

Skills:

• Experience building service-oriented architectures and web applications (we have a lot of things that are HTTP and REST-based)
• Deep, senior-level proficiency in modern languages (functional programming is a plus)
• Experience with system design and architecture, designing distributed systems, scaling, security, reliability (microservices based architecture running in a Kubernetes cluster is a plus)
• Experience with Dev Ops tools and frameworks, Infrastructure as Code, Containerization & Orchestration, CI/CD pipeline management, automation, networking fundamentals, cycling SSL certificates, service accounts, etc
• Hands on expertise and demonstrated ability to design and implement reliable, scalable, high performing systems
• Experience working with a cloud platform and products
• Git and other development tools and processes including but not limited to Intelli
  
  J, Visual Studio Code, etc
• Mentoring and onboarding, Architectural Documentation and Communication

Direct Manager/Direct Reports:

• Reports to Senior Manager, Software Development

Travel Requirements:

• Limited
• Travel to corporate headquarters annually, as requested

Physical Requirements:

• Extended Sitting
• Repetitive Tasks

Working Conditions:

• Working in an office setting: computer work, camera on virtual meetings

Minimum Education:

• University/College degree in a related area of study, or equivalent experience.

Minimum Years of

Work Experience:

• 5+ years of experience

Minimum Leadership

Experience:

• None

Certifications:

• None required, but any Google Cloud Professional certificates is a plus

Other Requirements/Assets:

• Dev Ops frameworks – GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, YAML, Git Hub pipelines, Spinnaker
• Back End frameworks – Scala, Play! framework. Python, Flask framework
• Front End frameworks – Typescript, React, Redux, Observables…