Mydoh is an award-winning Toronto-based fintech committed to helping Canadian families raise money-smart kids. As part of RBC Ventures, Mydoh is seeking to change the financial landscape for families. Through real-world money experiences, Mydoh makes it easier for the next generation to develop core financial habits to set young people up for success. At Mydoh, we understand the importance of financial literacy and believe that developing good money habits should start early – our product gives youth the opportunity to learn money management first-hand through (earn, save, spend) all with parental oversight and coaching. Our Purpose? Simply put, to help the next generation thrive.

We are looking for a talented technical leader to join our Mydoh Platform Engineering team as a Senior Software Engineer 2. As part of the Platform Engineering team, you will have daily opportunities to set upcoming technical standards, lead and mentor other developers, improve development speed and quality for your colleagues and exercise your skills as a well-rounded cross-functional contributor and technical leader in an enterprise environment. You’ll be relied on to set standards, proactively research ways to enhance our automation and code quality, and pitch in with the other pods on user-facing work when the need arises. Your team will be cross-functional and highly autonomous, representing the most senior and experienced of our engineers, whose work includes collaborating with developers of varying experience levels and representatives from other major business verticals, such as Fraud, Business Intelligence, Product Design and more. Your first major project will be to assist in migrating our cloud infrastructure to a new provider, to ensure that our services work flawlessly during the transition and to support the other development pods as they port their features over. From there, you will help prepare our technology for our highly ambitious scaling targets.

What is the opportunity?

• Work with Typescript, NestJS, ReactJS, PostgreSQL, NestJS, Docker and a variety of cloud infrastructure tools to create, test, and monitor internal tools and user-facing systems.

• Set industry-standard patterns and norms, supporting the development team as they adopt them. Maintain code quality and best practices across mobile, backend, observability and cloud systems with an eye for security standards and protecting user data.

• Work with a team of skilled software engineers to scale an increasingly popular platform for Canadian youth.

• Look for opportunities to ideate and improve the product and continually expand what is possible through technology.

• Join a rotating on-call team once every two months, where you'll support Mydoh incidents.

• Enjoy a high degree of autonomy in your work.

• Contribute to planning, designing, developing, deploying, monitoring, and maintaining significant portions of the software that support our users, including the system infrastructure.

• Have the chance to provide and receive feedback from your peers, shape the standards of our development team and lay the foundation for Mydoh’s future technology.

• You’ll use modern tooling throughout, whether that’s something currently part of our stack or something new that you assess needs to be added to reliably deliver the desired user experience. A snapshot of what’s currently in use:

  • Mobile application: React Native + Typescript with some native (Objective-C/ Java) SDKs

  • Web server: NodeJS, JavaScript, TypeScript, Nest.js

  • DB: PostgreSQL

  • Infrastructure: Amazon Web Services and Azure Web Services

  • CI/CD: CircleCI & Github Actions

What do you need to succeed?

Must have:

• 6+ years of experience programming commercial applications in production, with a sizable portion in JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Nest.js, Node.js, CSS, and Postgres.

• Demonstrated ability to take ambiguous business and technical problems from requirements gathering through to final delivery

• Demonstrated experience leading development teams, mentoring junior developers, and working with non-technical stakeholders.

• Demonstrated experience writing automated tests to cover gaps, from unit tests to end-to-end tests, and have some knowledge of JavaScript-based testing frameworks.

• Demonstrated experience with DevOps best practices and some experience in setting up and configuring cloud computing infrastructure.

• Demonstrated experience building production systems and understanding the deployment, monitoring, and security best practices required to run production software.

• Experience with source control (e.g. Git + Github) and modern software delivery techniques and tools, including pull requests.

• Experience in developing for Cloud Agnostic Architecture

Nice to have:

• Experience optimizing SQL database infrastructure and database design normalization for scale

• Post-secondary degree or diploma in a computer or software design-related program.

• Experience working with AWS

What’s in it for you?

We thrive on the challenge to be our best and work together to help our clients thrive and communities prosper. Here is what you can expect if you join our team:

• Work in an agile, collaborative, and high-performing team

• The opportunity to take a successful, well-regarded project and scale it to be used by 1 out of

• Leaders who support your development through regular coaching

• The opportunity to interface with senior-level executives from many different parts of the organization

• A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including competitive compensation, bonuses, and flexible benefits

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Job Skills

Agile Methodology, Group Problem Solving, IT Systems Integration, Organizational Leadership, Product Services, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), System Applications, System Integration Testing (SIT), Systems Software

Additional Job Details

RBC WATERPARK PLACE, 88 QUEENS QUAY W:TORONTOTORONTOCanada37.5Full timeTECHNOLOGY AND OPERATIONSRegularSalaried2024-10-042024-10-25