Software Engineer (Back-End Developer)

xiBOSS (pronounced "zyboss") is an innovative consulting agency. A Canadian company, xiBOSS was founded in 2002, specifically to service the dynamic and highly specialized international Telecommunications IT Sector.

Since then, we have dynamically evolved and grown to service a number of industry sectors including Finance, Telecommunications, Utilities, Media, Facilities Management and Health. Our customers range in size from start-ups to enterprise level multi-nationals.

Our reach is global, and we continue to embrace the rapid changes in today’s mobile, interconnected world. Our sense of urgency forms the basis of our reputation.

xiBOSS is proud of our continuing record of helping our clients solve both staffing and software development problems.

Overview: Our Client is enhancing its collaboration solution and is looking for an experienced backend-end developer to help us build productivity software that people love to use. The application is primarily geared towards financial services industry.

We’re are onto second iteration of the product (based on user feedback), so the decisions you make will have major consequences to the product and it's users.

Requirements:

* 3+ years experience developing back-end systems for web applications. Preferably in more than one programming language.

* Great communicator.

* Can design complex data-models.

* Top Notch Java dev skills

* Experience with Git.

* You care deeply about unit testing, but also know when it's not worth it.

* Experience with scale and solving performance problems.

* Experience with some database system(s) - Oracle, MySQL

* Understands many common security issues and how to prevent them.

Bonus points:

* Experience with Docker.

* Experience with Continous Integration tools such as Travis and Jenkins.

* Experience with Amazon Web Services or competitors.

* understands the Richarson Maturity Model, and you have an opinion about it.

* We follow the 'Worse Is Better' school of thought, and hope you do too. We build applications, not platforms to build applications on.

* Understanding and experience in Microservices

* Linux system administration.

Type:

*Full-Time

* Stock-options plan

* Full benefits

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.