Job Specifications
The Opportunity
It’s an exciting time at Neovation! We’re building a brand new product and we need talented people to join us in bringing our vision to life! If you are an experienced software/web developer or engineer looking to join a talented product team, please consider applying!
Note: This is a fully remote role, however preference will be given to Winnipeg applicants.
The Role
In this role you will support the organization by:
Assisting in the planning stages of new features and products; including requirement gathering, technical planning, and task milestones.
Creating, reviewing and maintaining code that is secure, scalable, and accessible.
Developing a world-class SaaS product using React and Next.js, utilizing modern tools and technologies such as server-side rendering, edge computing, React Query and OpenAPI.
Supporting other developers in selecting the best tool for the job, and debating the pros and cons of each possible solution, taking elements such as business value, initial and future tech debt and speed of development/deployment into consideration.
Managing and adapting to the needs of a modern web application, including keeping up to speed on new and emerging technologies such as Large Language Models (LLM), multimodal LLMs, diffusion models and Vision Language Models (VLM).
Documenting projects, features, APIs, processes, etc. for internal and external clients.
Taking full responsibility and ownership of items and tasks assigned to you and ensuring that roadblocks are communicated, deadlines are met, and other team members are supported and informed when collaborating.
The Right Candidate
You have a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering, computer science, or equivalent experience.
You have at least five years experience in web development, especially complex web applications and are deeply familiar with React, Typescript/Javascript, and Next.js.
You have at least three years of experience in developing for a cloud-hosted SaaS product, tracking down and fixing bugs, adding new features, and scaling the system to support a growing user base.
You consider yourself a problem-solver and have an analytical mind.
You feel driven to meet deadlines, even when they are tight.
You take pride in producing results that are high-quality, secure, scalable, and accessible.
You feel a sense of pride in finding the best solution for our customers, not necessarily the easiest solution to implement.
You are interested in and eager for a role that requires participation in the full development process, from planning to end support.
You possess fluent English language skills in both verbal and written formats, at minimum C1 level.
You are comfortable and willing to communicate with other developers, designers, QA analysts and non-technical team members, always striving for clear, concise and accessible communication on all sides.
You can work independently with minimal supervision and are confident enough to reach out for support and help when needed.
You are organized and can prioritize tasks and re-prioritize those tasks as your workload shifts and are able to manage your time efficiently.
You are curious about how AI can help you increase your productivity as a developer and are comfortable using AI tools in your day-to-day work (Gemini, Cursor IDE etc)
In addition, the following would be considered an asset to the company:
Knowledge of and experience with continuous integration and deployment pipelines and tooling (Amplify, Heroku etc), and version control systems such as Git and Bitbucket.
Familiarity with best practices for and implementation of client-side and server-side rendering (SSR) of components, as well as overall SSR concepts & benefits (SEO, performance, initial load time).
Strong understanding of SSR patterns including Static Site Generation (SSG), Incremental Static Regeneration (ISR), and progressive hydration.
Proven track record of debugging and optimizing SSR applications for Core Web Vitals and performance metrics.
Knowledge of the React lifecycle, data fetching patterns and state management.
Experience with edge computing (Vercel Edge, Cloudflare Workers).
Deep experience with React Query/Tanstack Query and related libraries.
Comfortable researching, proving and selecting third-party libraries to accelerate development, including integration into an existing code base and/or with other third-party libraries.
Experience with REST APIs (especially OpenAPI format) and working with end-to-end type safe API integrations.
Familiar with testing strategies for APIs and frontend systems, including unit, integration and load tests.
Proficiency in monitoring and observability tools like AWS CloudWatch, Sentry, PostHog, DataDog or Honeycomb.
Experience with infrastructure-as-code libraries such as AWS CDK or SAM, or Terraform.
Familiar with using and integrating Large Language Models (LLM), multimodal LLMs (text/image/audio/video), diffusion models (text to image) and Vision Language M