Joist - Platform Engineer (Remote, CAN)

Platform Engineer, Joist – REMOTE, CANADA

EverCommerce [Nasdaq: EVCM] is a leading service commerce platform, providing vertically tailored, integrated SaaS solutions that help more than 600,000 global service-based businesses accelerate growth, streamline operations, and increase retention. Our modern digital and mobile applications create predictable, informed, and convenient experiences between customers and their service professionals. Specializing in Home & Field Services, Health Services, and Fitness & Wellness industries, EverCommerce solutions include end-to-end business management software, embedded payment acceptance, marketing technology, and customer engagement applications.

We are building an extraordinary company and looking for talented, energetic, and motivated people to join our team. You can learn more about our Company, Culture and Values here: https://www.evercommerce.com/about-us/careers/ 

We are looking for a Platform Engineer to focus on our Joist Product. Joist, an EverCommerce solution group, is an estimating, invoicing and payment software platform for small & medium-sized trade contractors and we have major growth planned. Joist gives our customers the software tools & the best practices needed to deliver incredible home renovation experiences to homeowners. At Joist, we’re on a mission to make contractors heroes by helping them save time, look professional and win more jobs faster. Our software is mission critical for thousands of small businesses and we have an exciting opportunity to deliver a tremendous amount of value to them.

Responsibilities:

Architecture You have a strong understanding of the building blocks of a robust and scalable system. You are able to dissect business problems into well designed systems. You have the experience to know what to build and the discipline to know what not to.

CS Fundamentals You have an understanding of algorithms, data structures, design patterns and persistence technologies. You are able to select the right tool for the right job.

Distributed Systems You know how to build, debug, and monitor independently scalable and autonomous systems. You understand how to leverage messaging to encourage loosely-coupled coordination between systems.

Leadership You have the ability to lead a team by example. As a senior member of the development team, you are able to be able instil the values of quality and discipline in the people around you and provide feedback on how to improve as a team.

Delivery Focused Code on a laptop doesn’t solve problems. You know that a project is only done once its delivered and validated. Residential construction is a large problem to tackle. You are driven to complete a project because you know that 5 more problems are waiting to be tackled, and you do it all without sacrificing quality.

Teamwork Many of the problems we encounter require insight from many parts of the business. Your ability to coordinate and communicate is essential to our success.

Passion Hard problems are not solved overnight. It takes a special kind of attitude and hunger to disrupt an entrenched industry. Your passion is what you share with every teammate at Joist. Passion for technology, passion for change, and passion for building an industry revolutionizing product.

Skills and Experience needed for success in this role:

• Expertise in server-side API frameworks such as Ruby on Rails (or equivalent in other languages)

• Expertise in database design and caching technologies (PostgreSQL, Redis, Memcached, NoSQL)

• Understanding of Domain driven design

• Experience with distributed systems, event-driven architecture / SOA / microservices

• Working with messaging technologies such as Google pub/sub, RabbitMQ or similar

• Experience in deploying FE and BE applications using Jenkins (or equivalent tools for CI/CD)

• Experience and passion for Agile, DevOps and Lean approaches to delivering software and value for our customers

• Able to program in a variety of languages (Ruby, Java, JavaScript)

• Experience designing and evolving APIs (Ruby on Rails)

• Experience with cloud computing platforms such as AWS, Heroku or GCP

• Experience with automation tools like Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, etc.

• 5+ years of professional industry experience

Where:

The EverCommerce team is distributed globally, with teams in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Jordan, New Zealand, and Australia. With a widely distributed team, we are used to working remotely across different time zones. This role can be based anywhere in Canada, with a preference for the Toronto, Ontario region – if you’re close to one of our offices, we can set you up in-office or you can work 100% remotely. Please note that you must be eligible to work without sponsorship to qualify for this position, and this role may require travel to our Corporate Headquarters in Denver, Colorado, or to other office locations around North America. 

Benefits & Perks:

• Flexibility to work where/how you want in your country of employment – in-office, remote, or hybrid

• Robust wellness benefits, including an annual wellness stipend

• Flexible and generous (FTO) time-off, a paid volunteer day of your choosing, plus 2 floating holidays to celebrate anything of significance to you 

• Employee Stock Purchase Program

• Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) with 4% company match 

• Continued investment in your professional development through Udemy

Compensation: The target base compensation for this position is $130,000 to $150,000 CAD per year in most Canadian locations. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including location, local market variances, and candidate experience and expertise, and may vary from the amounts listed above.