Software Developer - Backoffice (Vancouver, CA)

Software Developer - Backoffice (Vancouver, CA)

We're seeking a Software Developer to join our Backoffice Team!

About the role:

The Backoffice team implements parking rules to client specifications that determine the cost and allowed duration of parking sessions. We provide both the ability for parking providers to set up parking rules through an admin API, as well as a quoting API that tells the apps how much a parking session is going to cost. Our APIs process an average of over 5 million requests per day and are used by a global audience.

Here's what you'll do:

  • Write and test-drive code for new features and bugfixes
  • Work with the team to design and develop automated test suites, refine acceptance criteria, and establish test plans
  • Participate in code reviews to share knowledge and improve code quality
  • Learn from your teammates and help them learn through pairing and mob programming sessions
  • Build and deploy software through an automated CI/CD pipeline, helping refine the process
  • Provision and maintain cloud infrastructure for your team’s products
  • Monitor the health and success of your team’s products through application, system, and business metrics
  • Contribute to technical documentation
  • Own the success of the systems you and your team develop. This includes monitoring, investigating issues, and supporting the service during outages including rotational on-call.

The must-haves:

  • 3+ years’ experience designing and developing clean, maintainable software that stands up to real-world users and production conditions
  • Experience in (or desire to work in) an agile environment using processes like Kanban or Scrum
  • Experience with automated unit testing, and an interest in techniques such as TDD and BDD
  • Excellent understanding of software engineering principles
  • Experience with relational and non-relational databases such as Oracle, MySQL, MongoDB, or DynamoDB
  • Experience improving legacy systems, or migrating them to a microservice architecture
  • Intermediate level ability to code in backend languages, C# preferred
  • Experience with cloud platforms, AWS preferred
  • Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly and concisely with both technical and non-technical audiences.
  • You’re excited about building robust and extensible 24/7 back-end services for a global market

The nice to haves:

  • Experience with service-oriented or microservices architecture using synchronous (REST) and asynchronous (event-driven) integration
  • Experience with React
  • Experience with Docker, Terraform
  • Experience with refactoring
  • Familiarity with Domain Driven Design concepts
  • Experience with production monitoring and observability

Success in this role looks like:

  • Writing clean, maintainable code with good test coverage
  • Effectively communicating technical decisions
  • Collaborating with and learning from your teammates
  • Making regular contributions to the team's processes, roadmap, and architecture
  • Helping improve the operational reliability of the team's systems

About us:

Here at PayByPhone, our strength is in our people: a talented team behind a fantastic product. We are a creative, ambitious and driven multi-disciplinary group. We value learning and fun as we innovate to help millions of consumers pay for parking easily and securely. Our teams are growing; but not without you.

Together, we’re on a mission to simplify the world of mobility payments – one parking spot at a time. We’re one of the fastest-growing mobile payment companies in the world and process over 100 million parking, transit, and bike-share transactions a year in cities across North America, Europe and Australia. Our teams help millions of consumers easily and securely pay for parking and transportation without the hassles of waiting in line, carrying change, or risking costly fines.

Now, as a subsidiary of Volkswagen Financial Services, our growth has a global focus and we can’t do it alone. We need the right people working with us to help reach our lofty goals and we want it to be you.

PayByPhone is committed to fostering a diverse and representative workforce and an inclusive work environment where all employees are treated equally. The Company does not tolerate discrimination or harassment in the workplace or talent attraction processes. Our commitment is to attract and acquire talent that are representative of the talent market, and are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications.

At PayByPhone, we operate in a constantly evolving world. With change being a long-time friend of ours, we have our values to guide how we work as a team to deliver on our commitments. In short, we:

Make things happen

Stay curious

Work together

Have fun

See through our customers’ eyes

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