Job Specifications
Position Overview:
Askuity is a Toronto-based retail analytics software company operating as a division within The Home Depot (THD). Through our supplier analytics program, Askuity’s mission is to enable suppliers and merchants at The Home Depot to make profitable, data-driven decisions and drive real-time execution.
Askuity is seeking a highly motivated and technical versatile Senior Backend Engineer that can perform both Backend Developer and DevOps duties. This is a crucial, hybrid role that will operate at the intersection of development and operations, owning the entire lifecycle of our critical operations. As a member of the development team at Askuity, you will drive the technical direction of our industry leading analytics platform that has a meaningful and immediate impact on our growing customer base. If you’re committed to great work and are constantly looking for ways to improve the systems you are responsible for, then we’d love to hear from you.
Key Responsibilities:
Code Development
Get deeply involved in our technical direction while delivering well-tested, performant, and maintainable code for our data powered SaaS platform
Contribute to the entire application development lifecycle
Deploy and run software in Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Evaluate new technologies and assess their suitability to solve challenges of today and into the future
Partnering
Gain an understanding of the real-world problems of our users to help build a great product that exceeds the expectations of our customers
Collaborate with product stakeholders to understand, design, and implement product features and realize our product vision to help our customers make better sense of their retail data
Agile Scrum
Competencies:
Action oriented
Decision quality
Collaborates
Communicates effectively
Drives results
Skills:
Experience building service-oriented architectures and web applications (we have a lot of things that are HTTP and REST-based)
Deep, senior-level proficiency in modern languages (functional programming is a plus)
Experience with system design and architecture, designing distributed systems, scaling, security, reliability (microservices based architecture running in a Kubernetes cluster is a plus)
Experience with DevOps tools and frameworks, Infrastructure as Code, Containerization & Orchestration, CI/CD pipeline management, automation, networking fundamentals, cycling SSL certificates, service accounts, etc
Hands on expertise and demonstrated ability to design and implement reliable, scalable, high performing systems
Experience working with a cloud platform and products
Git and other development tools and processes including but not limited to IntelliJ, Visual Studio Code, etc
Mentoring and onboarding, Architectural Documentation and Communication
Direct Manager/Direct Reports:
Reports to Senior Manager, Software Development
Travel Requirements:
Limited
Travel to corporate headquarters annually, as requested
Physical Requirements:
Extended Sitting
Repetitive Tasks
Working Conditions:
Working in an office setting: computer work, camera on virtual meetings
Minimum Education:
University/College degree in a related area of study, or equivalent experience.
Minimum Years of Work Experience:
5+ years of experience
Minimum Leadership Experience:
None
Certifications:
None required, but any Google Cloud Professional certificates is a plus
Other Requirements/Assets:
DevOps frameworks – GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, YAML, GitHub pipelines, Spinnaker
Back End frameworks – Scala, Play! framework. Python, Flask framework
Front End frameworks – Typescript, React, Redux, Observables is a plus
Relational and NoSQL databases such as Postgres, Redis, Firestore, BigQuery, OLAP
Functional programming – Typescript, Scala, AKKA/Pekko
Familiarity with is AI coding assistants (vibe coding)
GCP and its ecosystem, including GKE, Google Cloud databases (Firestore, BigQuery) and pub-sub is a plus
QA tools and frameworks is a plus
About the Company
Askuity is a retail analytics platform and wholly-owned division of The Home Depot. Our software powers The Home Depot's supplier analytics program; whose mission is to drive collaboration between our merchants and their suppliers. Teams include: software development, data science, product management, UI/UX design, supplier engagement, merchant engagement, community enablement, operations, and support.
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