Development Engineer (Golang)
Plusgrade
Toronto, ON, Canada
Posted on Jan 29, 2025
Travel is not just about the destination; it's about every memory made along the way. We are dedicated to shaping the future of travel by partnering with 200+ airline, hospitality, cruise, passenger rail, and financial services companies to create new, meaningful revenue streams through incredible customer experiences. Rooted in our core values of being ambitious, innovative, and collaborative, we are driven to continuously raise the bar, exceed expectations, and bring out the best in everyone, fostering a culture where we believe we are better together, working towards an extraordinary future in travel. Come help us transform everyday travel into extraordinary experiences.
ABOUT THE ROLE:
We are looking for a Backend Development Engineer to join our Platform Partnership Services engineering team. The Services team is agile-driven, focused on building backend systems that support our loyalty partners users as they acquire and manage their rewards program points.
The successful candidate will work as part of our collaborative team, taking ownership of their work from start to finish. This means writing great code that is well-tested and scalable, and follows engineering best practices. We value the growth of our team members, and encourage our team members to continuously improve and add to their skill set as they work alongside us. This means that while we enable and encourage you to grow, you have the drive to learn.
Reporting to the Team Lead, Software Engineering, you will join a multidisciplinary team where you will:
-Develop modern back-end applications using Golang that will reach millions of users around the world.
-Assist with the development of new services for strategic clients, with some of the largest APIs in the loyalty space.
-Share responsibility for your team’s technical health: architecture, best practices, reliability, security, etc.
-Improve the developer and user experience through thoughtful design, rigorous testing, and clear documentation.
-Ensure that our products meet the accessibility needs of our end-users.
-Collaborate with project managers, relationship managers, product designers, analysts and other stakeholders
-Play an important role in helping us to deliver high-quality products to our partners and customers.
YOU ARE SOMEONE WITH:
-Exceptional communication skills
-At least 3-5+ years experience building back-end systems and APIs
-Production experience writing Go applications
-Understanding and experience with design patterns and common software architectures
-Desire to develop your skills across all levels of the technical stack
-Belief in the importance of teamwork, cooperation, and communication
OUR TECH STACK:
Golang
PostgreSQL, Redis
Docker, Kubernetes
Hashicorp Vault
AWS (EKS and ECS)
GitLab
WHAT YOU’LL LOVE ABOUT US:
🏦 RRSP/401(k) Matching
🏥 Comprehensive Health Plans
📅 Flexible Paid Time Off
✈️ Travel Experience Credit
🧘 Annual Wellness Credit
🥗 Team Events and Monthly Lunches
💻 Home Office/Commuter Credit
🌅 Work From Anywhere Program
🍼 Parental Leave Top Up
🌍 Adventure Pass
OUR PROCESS:Plusgrade is an equal-opportunity employer and is committed to providing an accessible recruitment process. We welcome applications from all qualified individuals and are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of gender identity or expression, race, ethnic origin, creed, place of origin, age, sex, marital status, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, and any other category protected by law. Upon request, we will provide accommodation for applicants with disabilities.
We believe in diversity and inclusivity and that is why our interview process is designed for a positive candidate experience and to ensure every candidate is evaluated equally.
All applications will be reviewed by our Talent Team and the successful candidate(s) will go through the following recruitment process:
• Recruiter Phone Interview
• Hiring Manager Interview
• Take-home Assessment or remote coding exercise (if applicable)
• Team Interview
All candidates will be provided with feedback regardless if they pass or didn’t pass any of our interview stages. All your information will be kept confidential.