At Coconut Software, Senior Developers lead our growing development teams in rapidly and efficiently building solutions to revolutionize the banking experience at some of the industry leading financial institutions, focussing on iteration, experimentation, and stability. This role has a strong focus on business outcomes and the relationship between departmental development goals and overall company goals.
In this role, you will be an essential technical contributor for projects by creating solutions that meet market needs relating to architecture, implementation, testing and maintenance. You will oversee and mentor Junior and Intermediate Developers within the organization, and will be responsible for designing fully functioning, debugged code with required documentation that meets development goals, and for ensuring seamless delivery of features to our customers.To be successful as a Senior Developer, you must understand how to motivate and engage a team while having the leadership skills needed to influence effective teamwork and task work throughout the development cycle. Finally, the candidate will partake in customer conversations to ensure the right value product or feature is being delivered. This role makes an impact through driving business outcomes and building solid team and partner relationships. You will also be a part in leveling-up our processes, with a focus on higher quality software and greater overall efficiency.
We don’t need you to be an expert in PHP or React but you must have a working knowledge of these components, and be willing to learn as you go in a fast growing and supportive team:
- We innovate on top of a modern solution stack consisting of web technologies (such as React and Laravel) utilizing a RESTful architecture, and backed by relational DBs (MariaDB and PostgreSQL) and deploy using Docker in an AWS environment.
- You don’t need to be an expert in all of our technologies; we’re great at supporting solid full stack engineers with previous exposure to our modern SaaS stack (PHP, Laraval, React)
- We don't follow rigid Scrum, but we do work in an agile, iterative way, and try to continuously improve and implement what works for us
- Blameless culture and a continuous improvement mindset
- People Leadership
- Leading through mentorship while elevating junior and intermediate developers
- Contributing to hiring, training, and developing new team members
- Technical Delivery
- Contributing to determining the functionality, performance, scalability, reliability, realistic implementation schedules and system architecture for each assignment
- Ensuring delivery schedule is on track and keeping the team informed of the progress
- You’re skilled at writing code, helping with code reviews, and fixing bugs; as well as providing technical advice and guidance
- Planning and Architecture
- Assisting in requirements gathering, articulate updates, and subscribing to a customer first approach to software development
- Providing estimations for high-level designs as well as participating in assigning story points on detailed tasks, to predict accuracy on our project and sprint deliverables
- Designing, coding, and testing major features in collaboration with team members from all aspects of the organization
- Maintaining and modifying existing applications
- Producing design documents to ensure efficient maintenance and code reuse
- Providing recommendations for improvements in the overall development process
- Actively participating in team meetings and offering recommendations/ideas on design projects
- 5+ years of SaaS development experience
- Excellent communication and critical thinking skills
- Experience writing / working with REST and associated technologies (JWT, JWE, etc)
- Expert understanding of object-oriented programming, namely with PHP (ideally PHP 7+)
- Advanced understanding of server-side software development, preferably with Laravel or CakePHP
- Expert understanding of front end technologies; namely with Javascript, CSS, and React
- Strong understanding of GIT and associated workflows (pull requests, code reviews)
- MariaDB (MySQL) experience
- Tech or team lead experience is not mandatory but would be an awesome bonus!
- “Cabana Days” - our version of a flexible work week!
To enable our employees to do their best work, offering flexibility to prioritize what is important and to take time needed for rest and rejuvenation when possible based on business and operational needs. - Ability to do your job in a supported, but still flexible environment;
- Supported professional development, learning & career opportunities - be supported in your growth journey!
- Regular 1:1 coaching with your leader and regular connection to a passionate executive team
- Work in a team big enough for growth but lean enough to make a real impact
A full range of benefits to keep you happy & healthy;
- Competitive Salaries - we pay fairly based on experience and expertise, not your ability to negotiate!
- Health & Dental Benefits, Virtual Care, & Disability top up - all starting from day 1!
- Virtual mental health and EAP platform
- WealthSimple GRSP & Matching
- Annual Wellness Benefit ($1000 per year)
- Opportunity to work remote - anywhere in Canada!
- Employee Options - everyone shares in our success!
- Internet Subsidy on each paycheck
- Tiki Bucks Incentive Program - everyone is entitled to earn bonuses!
- A People First Company - 4.6 rating on Glassdoor
- Recently named #4 on the Top 10 Best Workplaces in Canada
Who we are, and what we do:
Mission
Match customers with the right expert, at the right time, so no opportunity is lost.
Values
Collaboration. Honesty. Empathy. Elevate. Resilience. Service Excellence.
Coconut Software makes it effortless for customers to connect with their bank or credit union. Our appointment scheduling, queue management, and video banking solutions are used by leading financial institutions across North America, including RBC, Arvest Bank, Vancity, and Rogue Credit Union. Organizations that use Coconut benefit from a seamless customer experience that improves NPS, reduces wait times, and increases conversion rates.
To date we have raised close to 40M and have been doubling revenue year after year. The team at Coconut has ambitious growth plans to continue to scale the business to new heights by owning the North American market and delivering innovative solutions to our customers.
Coconut has a company culture that is best in class. We foster a community that is unconditionally inclusive, and in return ask that our people contribute their differing perspectives, ideas and experiences for one common purpose: to advance the way people live and work in an environment of diversity, equity and inclusion and workplace belonging.
Some recent awards we're proud of include:
Coconut Software is committed to treating all people in a way that allows them to maintain their dignity and independence. We believe in integration and equal opportunity. We are committed to meeting the needs of people with disabilities in a timely manner, and will do so by preventing and removing barriers to accessibility and meeting accessibility requirements under the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005.
