Junior Software Developer, Backend

Junior Software Developer, Backend at Hootsuite

Hootsuite is actively seeking a Junior Software Developer, Backend to join their team. In this role, you will be instrumental in designing, building, testing, and shipping high-quality software that delivers significant value to Hootsuite's customers. You will collaborate within a small, agile team that continuously integrates feedback to refine and enhance the products and features you develop. This position emphasizes learning and adhering to established patterns and best practices, with robust support provided to ensure the delivery of high-quality work. The team manages the entire delivery lifecycle, from beta releases to production-ready, scalable products for both new and existing customers.

This opportunity is open to candidates located across Canada, specifically in provinces where Hootsuite can legally hire, and the successful candidate will report to the Senior Manager, Software Development.

What You’ll Do

• Deliver low-complexity projects ensuring alignment with coding and design standards, testing practices, and company guidelines for security, accessibility, and privacy.
• Contribute to the successful execution of the team's roadmap by asking questions, providing input, and promptly escalating identified risks and scope changes.
• Actively engage in team activities, working out loud, learning from peers, contributing to code reviews and documentation as you work towards achieving team goals.
• Actively engage in troubleshooting, addressing minor bugs independently, and collaborating with senior team members to resolve more complex issues.
• Work within a cross-functional team, fostering positive team relationships, and maintain effective communication with peers and stakeholders.

What You’ll Need

To succeed as a Junior Software Developer, Backend, you will need:

• A degree in Computer Science or Engineering, and 1-2 years of experience developing and maintaining software (including co-op terms and internships) or an equivalent level of education or work experience.
• Ability to learn and follow existing patterns and best practices in delivering code and writing tests for individual stories.
• Experience with backend development in Scala or Go, or a strong interest in learning them.
• Exposure to event-driven / streaming systems such as Kafka, including producing/consuming events and basic troubleshooting.
• Familiarity with cloud-native deployment: Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS (EC2, SQS) in a microservices environment.
• Basic understanding of monitoring & reliability using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Sumologic.
• Ability to learn about and use root cause analysis to identify and address bugs and outages. Follow logging, monitoring and debugging best practices in the components and classes you work on.
• Ability to learn and follow existing architecture concepts and best practices to extend existing software modules and components that meet system performance, modifiability, maintainability and reliability needs.
• Ability to learn about and follow basic security and compliance practices in daily work.
• Ability to follow common agile processes and continuous integration and delivery practices to ship stories and own low complexity epics/projects.
• Ability to collaborate and communicate effectively within a team, participate in technical discussions, listen actively and understand non-technical input from design and product.
• Eagerness to actively seek guidance, feedback, and learning opportunities within the team to foster personal and professional growth.
• Display eagerness to learn and collaborate on goal-setting, supported in creating and aligning goals with personal development.
• Ability to understand roadmaps and participate in delivering on them effectively by communicating risks and opportunities at the individual level.
• Customer Focus: demonstrates a desire to proactively help and serve internal/external customers meet their needs.
• Perseverance: pursues everything with energy, drive, and a need to finish—doesn’t give up.
• Resilience, Tolerance for Change/Ambiguity: can effectively cope with change, finding ways to advance work and projects.

Who You Are (Hootsuite Guiding Principles)

Hootsuite seeks individuals who embody the following characteristics:

• Solution seeker: Focused on tackling new challenges and solving problems proactively.
• Lifelong learner: Possesses a growth mindset, eager to experiment and share knowledge.
• Resilient adapter: Approaches change and challenges calmly, finding new opportunities.
• Intentional collaborator: Builds positive relationships and facilitates information flow.
• Critical challenger: Trusts the team to ask tough questions for best outcomes.
• Active communicator: Listens actively, communicates ideas clearly and inclusively.
• Integrated thinker: Understands team’s work impact on broader organizational goals.
• Accountable owner: Takes pride in work, demonstrating ultimate accountability.
• Bar-raiser: Helps team grow and succeed, exceeding expectations when needed.

Key skills/competency

• Backend Development
• Scala
• Go
• Kafka
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• AWS
• Microservices
• Agile Methodologies
• Troubleshooting