First seen by our source: 25 days ago
Back End Developer
@ Thinkoutsidethevalley
Toronto, Ontario
Overview
Thinkoutsidethevalley is hiring a full-time Back End Developer to build features and improve functionality for its retail analytics platform. The role involves designing, building and testing services, deploying on AWS, and collaborating with product and front end teams. The posting offers a competitive salary, health benefits, and workspace in Toronto or Vancouver.
Responsibilities:
- Build new features and improve existing functionality for the analytics platform
- Write well-tested, maintainable code for internal services and the web application
- Collaborate with product management on new product features
- Define best practices and patterns to scale the platform
- Deploy and run software in Amazon Web Services
Requirements summary:
- Solid understanding of functional programming (Scala, Elixir, Erlang)
- Experience building service-oriented architectures and web applications
- Great communication skills
- Self-starter attitude
- Experience with AWS (asset)
- Knowledge of PostgreSQL (asset)
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Source and dates
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- Employer posting date
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- First seen by our source
- 2026-10-12
- Source record updated
- 2026-10-12
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Job details
| Department | Software development |
| Hours per week | 40 (estimated) |
| Travel | air: none · ground: none |
| Work setting | Office |
| Position | Mostly sitting |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer high |
| Languages | English |
| Perks mentioned | Transit support, Free or discounted meals |
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Thinkoutsidethevalley
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Open jobs on Jobsy | 15 |
Seeking a Back End Developer eager to join our growing team. You will help build new features and improve existing functionality for our industry-leading analytics platform. As a member of the development team, you will help design, create and test beautiful software 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.
What you’ll do:- Gain an understanding of the real-world problems of our users to help us build a great product that exceeds the expectations of our customers
- Collaborate with product management to understand, design, and implement new product features that help our customers make better sense of their retail data
- Write well-tested and maintainable code for internal services and our customer-facing web application
- Define best practices and patterns to help us scale our platform
- Deploy and run software in Amazon Web Services
- A solid understanding of functional programming – we use Scala, Elixir and Erlang extensively but aren’t picky about where you’re coming from
- Experience building service-oriented architectures and web applications – we have a lot of things that are HTTP and REST-based at the moment
- Great communication skills – you’ll be expected to collaborate with our Front End and Product teams to help define requirements and build out the right solution
- A self-starter attitude – drive to do better and be better is baked into our culture
- Have experience building and operating software in Amazon Web Services
- Know your way around PostgreSQL
- Have an understanding of configuration management and/or orchestration software like Ansible, Chef, and Puppet (we’ve used a lot of Ansible)
- Competitive salary and health benefits
- Spacious, collaborative workspace in the heart of the Toronto tech district, or in The Landing near Vancouver’s Gastown neighbourhood
- Team lunches and an impressive lineup of snacks
- Endless beer fridge
- Ping pong and video games (and some seriously competitive gamers)
- Quarterly company offsites and hackathons
- Indoor bike parking
Help us build software that showcases your impressive development skills and ultimately makes our customers happy. If you’re interested in designing and building beautiful software for a fast-growing Toronto startup, then send in your resume
Contact us at [email protected] for more information
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