Backend Engineer

4 days ago

Remote, Canada SimplyAnalytics Full time $80,000 - $120,000 per year

The Company

SimplyAnalytics is a powerful spatial analytics and data visualization application used by thousands of business, marketing, and social science researchers in the United States and Canada. It comes pre-packaged with 200,000+ data variables and allows our users to create maps, charts, tabular reports, and crosstabs. We are passionate about creating outstanding software, and we believe in test driven development, continuous integration, and code review.

As a smaller company, each of our developers has an important role to play - at SimplyAnalytics, you are not just another cog in the wheel, you are an integral member of our team. You will be working on valuable features and making key decisions that impact the direction of the product and the satisfaction of our users. In addition, we provide an excellent work-life balance, with 100% remote work, 20 personal days off, flexible work hours, a collaborative work environment, and quarterly "professional development days" to explore and share your interests with the rest of the team.

The Role

We're looking for a Backend Engineer to take on an important role in the development and maintenance of our cutting edge analytics and data visualization application. You'll be developing and maintaining production-quality in-house tools and customer-facing features within a large shared code base.

Our stack is modern vanilla PHP and Postgres/PostGIS, with Python for data processing. We use modern software development practices such as static typing and analysis, as well as automated testing.

The ideal candidate is a self-starter, has a high level of attention to detail, is comfortable asking questions, enjoys working with talented colleagues, and has an interest in analytics and data visualization.

This is a 100% remote position, our developers can live and work anywhere in Canada. This is a full-time salaried position. When applying, please include a human written cover letter (do not submit an AI generated cover letter if you would like us to consider your application).

Please only apply if you are currently living in Canada.

Responsibilities:

  • Design, develop, and test features, both in-house and customer-facing
  • Write high-quality, clean, scalable, and maintainable code
  • Contribute ideas for new features or improvements to existing features
  • Assist colleagues through code-review, collaboration, and troubleshooting

Required:

  • 5+ years of professional software development experience on large, structured code bases using PHP or other OO language
  • Comfortable using Linux CLI
  • Intermediate relational database and data manipulation skills
  • Thorough understanding of API design principles
  • Experience with PostgreSQL

Bonus:

  • Python experience
  • Experience using AWS services
  • Familiarity with PSR standards
  • Experience with geospatial demographic, business, marketing, or health data
  • Experience with PostGIS
  • Experience with Psalm or other static analyzers

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