Who We Are
Simpplr is the leading AI-powered employee experience platform. Organizations use our forward-looking, adaptable products to deliver personalized experiences that inspire and engage their employees. Wherever people work, Simpplr enables them to flourish.
Trusted by more than 700+ leading brands, including Penske, Snowflake, Moderna, Eurostar, and AAA, our customers are achieving measurable improvements in employee engagement, productivity, and accelerated business performance.
Simpplr is headquartered in Silicon Valley, CA with offices in the UK, Canada, and India, and is backed by Sapphire Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, Salesforce Ventures, and Tola Capital. Learn more at simpplr.com.
Job Description
Do you have a solid back-end microservices experience and enjoy delivering a smooth user experience on the front-end? Even better, are you curious about working with AI and chatbots? We are looking for an experienced Senior Software Engineer who’s comfortable to work Full Stack with Node/React/TypeScript tech stack to help us build the foundation of and deliver a new product line that will build the next phase of growth for Simpplr. You will be working cross-functionally with other stakeholders such as Product Manager, Design, Data Science, and Program Management and take ownership of delivering critical projects to production with speed and quality.
Location
Simpplr Canada Engineering team follows hybrid model where we work up to (not more than) two days a week together for in-person collaboration in downtown Toronto (King & University area)
What you’ll be doing:
You will be working on high priority project for the company, your work will be important and impactful for both the immediate term and future of Simpplr.
- Work in a talented cross-functional team to develop scalable microservices in Node with TypeScript and develop new user-facing features using React TypeScript on the fronten
- Build and maintain applications running on AWS and work with our existing AWS platform team to deploy infrastructure using Kubernetes
- Write automated unit tests and end-to-end tests for your code and services. Quality is incredibly important to us and everybody is responsible for it.
- Help influence the overall architecture and direction of the codebase as well as the wider product.
- Help establish best practices, guidelines, and processes to allow the team focus on what they do best - building the application
- Mentor and guide other team members to help them grow in their career
What makes you a great fit for the team:
- You think about scalability, system performance, and great user experience
- You are user focused – we solve our customer’s problems together; everybody has a say in planning, design & execution
- 5-6 years of overall experience
- Back-end experience with Node.js, ideally with TypeScript and relevant database technologies
- Front-end experience with React, you should have a solid understanding of how and why it uses a virtual DOM, and you should be familiar with Accessibility
- Infrastructure experience, working with Kubernetes, Docker, and relevant cloud platform (AWS, Azure, CP)
- Working knowledge of supporting tools & frameworks such as Kafka, observability & monitoring tools, etc
- You love identifying new technologies, patterns, and techniques and planning out how we can apply them to improve productivity, code quality and user experience
- Experience using modern modular CSS strategies e.g styled components, emotion, etc (we use CSS Modules) and why globally scoped styles are bad.
- Good understanding of CI/CD, unit testing, and automated end-to-end testing using a framework like Cypress
- Strong knowledge and understanding of functional programming patterns
- Excited by working in a fast-paced startup environment
- Able to occasionally travel to our other offices in UK, New Delhi, and San Francisco
We’d especially love to hear from you if:
- Experience working in distributed architecture, microservices, and micro frontends
- You have proven excellence in writing readable and efficient TypeScript code
- You have a good track record of project leadership and mentorship of software engineers
- You have experience working with micro-frontends in production
- You are familiar with feature flag tools such as Harness
Keywords
Full Stack, React, Node, TypeScript, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Microservices
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Simpplr’s Hub-Hybrid-Remote Model:
At Simpplr we believe that when work is good, life is better and that belief guides all we do. Including how we approach our flexible work model. Simpplr operates with a Hub-Hybrid-Remote model. This model is role-based with exceptions and provides employees with the flexibility that many have told us they want.
- Hub - 100% work from Simpplr office. Role requires Simpplifier to be in the office full-time.
- Hybrid - Hybrid work from home and office. Role dictates the ability to work from home, plus benefit from in-person collaboration on a regular basis.
- Remote - 100% remote. Role can be done anywhere within your country of hire, as long as the requirements of the role are met.
