Senior Back-end Developer (Canada)

About Uride Technologies Inc.

At Uride, we're on a mission to empower underserved communities around the world by creating a marketplace that connects people in rural areas with essential services, starting with ridesharing. With operations in 24 cities across the country, Uride is Canada’s fastest growing ridesharing company, providing over a million rides annually. Preparing for international expansion, our vision goes beyond transportation; we aim to become the leading platform for local entrepreneurs to launch service-based businesses, creating an ecosystem that benefits everyone.

We are a diverse and dynamic team that is focused on driving growth forward through innovation, open communication, and team based collaboration. We believe in solving problems together with positivity and integrity, and we've created a culture where everyone feels comfortable being themselves.

As a fully remote team with a start-up-like mindset, we value hard work and a proactive approach. If you are someone who enjoys finding solutions, implementing improvements, spearheading new initiatives and continuous opportunities for growth, you'll love it here! 

About the role

The Senior Back-End Developer will report directly to the VP of Technology and work closely with the development team. In this role, you will take a lead in designing and implementing user-facing features, optimizing application performance, and ensuring a seamless and accessible user experience across platforms.

What you'll do

• Ensure best practices in software development.
• Optimize application for maximum speed and scalability.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across the organization to discuss the needs, design, and
• functionality of a website or interface
• Stay abreast of industry trends and emerging technologies, advocating for their adoption where beneficial to the project and company.
• Implement testing, and write unit tests, e2e tests using test framework using libraries such as react-testing library or jest to ensure individual components of functions act as expected.
• Discuss improvements and processes with the team lead.
• Collaborate with team to translate design mockups into interactive web applications.
• Design and develop server-side applications and APIs.
• Develop and maintain back-end as well front-end components of our web applications
• Identify and address performance bottlenecks such as render-blocking resources, large asset sizes, inefficient code, etc.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of professional development experience in backend (and/or full-stack), demonstrating a deep understanding of any of the following: Golang, Node.js, JavaScript, or TypeScript. Knowledge of functional programming is a strong plus
• Near familiarity with a variety of technologies including GraphQL, Web sockets, Kubernetes, Kafka, ElasticSearch, Kibana, DynamoDB, and PostgreSQL
• Solid understanding of distributed systems architecture, encompassing consensus, convergence, load balancing, data consistency, and performance/efficiency constructs
• Ability to design and implement APIs with a focus on performance, scalability, and maintainability
• Proficiency in identifying and resolving performance and scalability issues, particularly in systems serving millions of users with high availability
• Outstanding documentation and written communication skills, capable of translating complex technical concepts into understandable, actionable insights
• Effective communication and collaboration skills, with an understanding of when to lead and when to step back
• Ability to provide constructive feedback on code reviews and actively participate in activities such as RFC discussions, sprint planning, etc
• Kindness, a high EQ, and adeptness at listening, communicating with, and collaborating with other team members
• High adaptability and a strong desire for continuous learning and growth
• A passion for solving complex problems