Senior Back-End Developer

About Mighty Cast

In the heart of Montreal’s Plateau Mont-Royal, Mighty Cast is redefining social mobility with its first product offering – the NEX Band. The NEX Band is the world's first proximity detecting, collectible, bi-directional and fashionable wearable device. Through its patent-pending technology and proprietary platform, The NEX Band connects physical collectible and shareable objects with mobile applications in a naturally viral way - ostensibly, creating a "console on the wrist". Combining the efforts of international jewelry designers and technological engineers into a single band, the NEX is both beauty and geek.

The Role

Mighty Cast is looking for a back-end developer to help build out its server infrastructure. The successful candidate will work within the Mighty Cast Technology team to develop, enhance, and maintain server-side applications. Reporting to the Technical Director, the successful candidate should exhibit expertise and experience in Cloud development best practices, current trends, current limitations, and emergent technologies.

Job Responsibilities

• Architecture and Improvement of server-side modules.
• Designing and Exposing scalable web services for consumption by mobile, web and desktop clients.
• Ensure Scalability and DevOps by leveraging standard as well as emergent technologies.
• Integration with third-party systems, services and websites.

About you

• B.Sc. in Computer Science, Math, Engineering or equivalent experience;
• Extensive professional experience in high-volume server-side development;
• Intimacy with deployments and management of a multi-tier hybrid cloud environment;
• Excellent knowledge of UNIX systems, specifically BSD and Linux distributions;
• Excellent knowledge of concepts related to functional and concurrent programming;
• Extensive experience with interpreted languages;
• Demonstrated knowledge of emergent systems programming languages;
• Demonstrated knowledge of statistics in relation to Big Data analysis.

Assets

• Intimacy with the requirements and intricacies of full-stack software development;
• Demonstrated knowledge of modern software engineering practices;
• Positive attitude and an ability to provide and receive constructive criticism;
• Small company or Startup experience is preferred;
• A passion for the advancement of state of the art technologies.

If you would like to be part of our team of techies and creatives, please send your resume via Sitedemploi.