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Senior Software Developer, Back-End (12 Month Contract)

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Oakville, Ontario - Canada

2d ago
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Job Description

Hybrid

Who we are

Geotab ® is a global leader in IoT and connected transportation and certified “Great Place to Work™.” We are a company of diverse and talented individuals who work together to help businesses grow and succeed, and increase the safety and sustainability of our communities.
 
Geotab is advancing security, connecting commercial vehicles to the internet and providing web-based analytics to help customers better manage their fleets. Geotab’s open platform and Geotab Marketplace ®, offering hundreds of third-party solution options, allows both small and large businesses to automate operations by integrating vehicle data with their other data assets. Processing billions of data points a day, Geotab leverages data analytics and machine learning to improve productivity, optimize fleets through the reduction of fuel consumption, enhance driver safety and achieve strong compliance to regulatory changes.
 
Our team is growing and we’re looking for people who follow their passion, think differently and want to make an impact. Ours is a fast paced, ever changing environment. Geotabbers accept that challenge and are willing to take on new tasks and activities - ones that may not always be described in the initial job description. Join us for a fulfilling career with opportunities to innovate, great benefits, and our fun and inclusive work culture. Reach your full potential with Geotab. To see what it’s like to be a Geotabber, check out our blog and follow us @InsideGeotab on Instagram. Join our talent network to learn more about job opportunities and company news.

Who you are:

Do you thrive on solving complex challenges and building elegant solutions?  Geotab's SDK/API team is looking for a skilled Senior Developer to join our collaborative and supportive team. You'll be immersed in the world of ASP.NET, JSON-RPC, and REST APIs, designing and developing the core interfaces that power our industry-leading telematics platform. If you have a deep understanding of .NET, a passion for clean code, and a knack for optimizing database queries, we want to hear from you!

In this role, you'll contribute to the evolution of our APIs while ensuring backwards compatibility for our global user base. You'll work closely with a talented team of engineers to solve challenging problems, improve performance, and enhance the user experience.  If you're ready to make a real-world impact and contribute to a company that's shaping the future of connected vehicles, this is the opportunity for you.

What you'll do:

The Senior Software Developer will be part of a team who builds a web-based, state-of-the-art, telematics platform that makes sense of the data collected by our custom-built hardware. We receive detailed data and metrics for millions of vehicles and devices globally, which is processed and interpreted to create actionable information for our customers. You will write high-performance C# code to process and store this information in real time. Understanding the performance impact of good systems design, multithreading, and scalability is a must for this position.

How you'll make an impact

  • Listen and contribute to design discussions and make detailed notes and documenting requirements and technical design.
  • Provide guidance to more junior team members, sharing knowledge across the teams.
  • Write scalable, high quality and secure software in a variety of programming languages and environments, such as C#, JavaScript, SQL.
  • Perform quality assurance by doing peer review, ensuring coding standards are followed, looking for logic errors and other bugs.
  • Analyze call stacks, trace files, performance data to troubleshoot and identify the root cause of bugs.
  • Participate in development of prototypes, minimum viable products and proofs of concept.
  • Provide assistance to our support staff and resellers from a technical perspective. This may be in the form of on-call or ad-hoc questions relating to how certain features work or verifying the behaviour by reviewing code.
  • Research new language features, frameworks and other relevant technologies and offer recommendations to Leads and senior leaders.
  • Assist in defining best practices to be used in the team.
  • Provide design documents and documentation to ensure efficient maintenance and code reuse.
  • Ensure the functionality, performance, scalability, reliability, realistic implementation schedules and system architecture for each assignment.
  • Participate in a 24x7 on-call rotating schedule.

What you'll bring to the role

  • 5+ years of experience with using Linux, C# and .Net Core and experience with optimization and multithreaded programming.
  • 2+ years of experience with System Design and Architecture.
  • 2+ years of cloud computing experience with either GCP, AWS, or Azure.
  • Experience with SQL Server and Postgres database design, optimization, and writing queries.
  • Working knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes is required.
  • Expert knowledge with optimizing databases (e.g. MySQL).
  • Knowledge of multiple general purpose programming languages (e.g. C#, Java, Python).
  • Proficiency in Git (or some other distributed source control tool) and are comfortable with resolving merge conflicts and renaming branches, etc.
  • High accuracy and meticulous attention to detail.
  • Strong analytical skills with the ability to problem-solve to well-judged decisions.
  • Strong project management skills; able to identify needs, develop effective solutions, and manage projects through to completion.
  • Bachelor of Computer Science, Electrical/Software Engineering or other related degrees.
If you got this far, we hope you're feeling excited about this role! Even if you don't feel you meet every single requirement, we still encourage you to apply.
 
Please note: Geotab does not accept agency resumes and is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes. Please do not forward resumes to Geotab employees.
 

Why job seekers choose Geotab

Flex working arrangements
Home office reimbursement program
Baby bonus & parental leave top up program
Online learning and networking opportunities
Electric vehicle purchase incentive program
Competitive medical and dental benefits
Retirement savings program

*The above are offered to full-time permanent employees only

How we work

At Geotab, we have adopted a flexible hybrid working model in that we have systems, functions, programs and policies in place to support both in-person and virtual work. However, you are welcomed and encouraged to come into our beautiful, safe, clean offices as often as you like. When working from home, you are required to have a reliable internet connection with at least 50mb DL/10mb UL. Virtual work is supported with cloud-based applications, collaboration tools and asynchronous working. The health and safety of employees are a top priority. We encourage work-life balance and keep the Geotab culture going strong with online social events, chat rooms and gatherings. Join us and help reshape the future of technology!
 
We believe that ensuring diversity is fundamental to our future growth and progress and is an integral part of our business. We believe that success happens where new ideas can flourish – in an environment that is rich in diversity and a place where people from various backgrounds can work together. Geotab encourages applications from all qualified individuals. We are committed to accommodating people with disabilities during the recruitment and assessment processes and when people are hired. We will ensure the accessibility needs of employees with disabilities are taken into account as part of performance management, career development, training and redeployment processes. If you require accommodation at any stage of the application process or want more information about our diversity and inclusion as well as accommodation policies and practices, please contact us at careers@geotab.com. By submitting a job application to Geotab Inc. or its affiliates and subsidiaries (collectively, “Geotab”), you acknowledge Geotab’s collection, use and disclosure of your personal data in accordance with our Privacy Policy. Click here to read our Privacy Notice. Click here to learn more about what happens with your personal data.

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