Intermediate Backend Feature Developer

Who we are

Samdesk is a global disruption monitoring tool that delivers real-time crisis alerts 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, powered by AI. We make sense of the world’s most valuable real-time data sources and build tools that contextualize and clarify the impact of every alert, helping create a safer world. Samdesk is a venture backed company headquartered in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada with team members located all over the world. We are a growing team of dreamers and builders, passionate about building great products and services.

Check us out!
www.samdesk.io

About the Role

The Backend Developer is responsible for the implementation, scale, and reliability of the APIs and microservices used by our pipeline and the samdesk suite of applications. Samdesk data and its applications help our users plan, respond, and recover from crisis incidents, risks, and disruptions.

Overall the Backend Developer will work closely with the product, machine learning, and infrastructure teams that are jointly responsible for the generation of automated alerts produced by our AI pipeline. The Backend Developer will build the products and solutions required to digest data and consume it in a way that makes the most sense for our customers. And to do it at scale. You will also help build our microservices roadmap for the various APIs that our apps and pipeline consume.

What your day could look like as a Backend Developer at samdesk?

• Implement a new API to be used by internal tools, public apis or our data pipeline
• Add a new data source to our data pipeline
• Build a new integration with a Travel or HR system that ties into our Asset Engine
• Review our performance metrics for bad trends or anomalies or bottlenecks that need to be addressed
• Code review a PR from a fellow developer
• Hop on a call with team members to go plan on developing or deploying a new feature
• Design a new API for a new application the front end team is building
• Deploy a hotfix to correct handling of an unexpected input
• Build an API endpoint to interface with a samdesk model or ChatGPT
• Report on health of key system components
  

Responsibilities & Duties

• Implement and iterate on our data pipeline components and microservices
• Identify bottlenecks in dataflow before they hit production
• Understand the complexity of a requirement and be able to estimate the time it takes to implement within a reasonable range
• Ensure the code base aligns with software best practices 
• Provide enough unit tests for a component to ensure that it works today and can be safely modified in the future
• Ship quality production ready code

Qualifications and Skills

• A Degree or Masters in Computing Science or Engineering
• Proven ability to build scalable and reliable solutions in NodeJS (TypeScript) or Python
• Exposure to AWS (ECS, SQS, CloudWatch, S3)
• Experience building REST or GraphQL based APIs
• Believe in the value of automated software testing as part of CI/CD
• Experience building applications using Docker
• Experience with MongoDB
• Experience with Apollo GraphQL
• A strong balance of hands-on development experience, architecture knowledge and production support

You are a good fit if

• You actually enjoy writing software - it's important!
• You are genuinely excited to work in a fast paced and challenging environment with other like minded individuals
• You still think about that time you optimized that block of code from 7s to 400ms and possible ideas to optimize it further
• You are more interested in the right solution than your solution
• You are able to prioritize tasks and ship code rather than refactor continuously
• You seek opportunities to be creative, come up with innovative solutions, and don’t require a “playbook” to get things done

Samdesk is an equal opportunity employer committed to ​​creating a safe, diverse and inclusive environment. We encourage qualified applicants of all backgrounds including ethnicity, religion, disability status, gender identity, sexual orientation, family status, age, nationality, and education levels to apply. If you are contacted for an interview and require accommodation during the interviewing process, please let us know.

The position is based out of Edmonton, AB but we may also consider remote candidates. Please note that only candidates selected for the interview process will be contacted. Thank you!