Backend Software Engineer

at  LodgeLink

ABOUT LODGELINK

LodgeLink, a Black Diamond Group company headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, Canada is more than just a digital marketplace and ecosystem for crew travel; we’re a caring tech company on a mission to transform workforce travel. Our digital platform is the key to unlocking seamless solutions for finding, booking, and managing crew travel and accommodation needs. Powered by a growing network of hotel and lodge partners, we address the unique challenges of crew travel, applying technology to streamline the entire process from booking to management, payments, and cost reporting. At LodgeLink, we’re not just saving our customers time and money; we’re changing the future of workforce (crew) travel – for the better.
United by our vision to be THE ecosystem for workforce travel, our values reflect our commitment to collaboration, agility, dependability, inventiveness, and audacity. As a diverse and inclusive team, we come together, sharing ideas, building disruptive technology, and tackling complex problems. Our relentless pursuit to deliver value and superior customer experiences is inspired by a collective passion to ‘Create A Better Way’ for all.
At LodgeLink, we’re seeking exceptional team players with an entrepreneurial spirit to contribute to our rapid growth. If you crave a career, not just a job, we could be the perfect fit.

LodgeLink Total Rewards | Caring for our team is a priority, and we’re pleased to provide these benefits:

• Building a diverse and inclusive team, supporting career growth and development.
• Competitive base salaries.
• Share Appreciation Rights program for salaried employees.
• Paid vacation days and sick days.
• An employee charitable donation program.
• Hotel and travel discounts.
• Comprehensive benefits package including extended health, vision, dental, Health Spending Account, TeleDoc, Employee Assistance Program, Life, Long-term Disability, AD&D, and Critical Illness Insurance.
• Located in beautiful Eau Claire in downtown Calgary, within a 5-minute walk to Prince’s Island Park
• Company-hosted events, and a game room.
• Ability to join our Social Club and join colleagues for fun events such as golf, bowling, curling, stampede events and more.
• Free access to the Aspen Properties Fitness Centers.

LodgeLink is a Black Diamond Group company. Learn more: www.lodgelink.com
Black Diamond Group is a publicly traded company with 20 years of experience in modular space and workforce solutions, and operations across Canada, the United States, and Australia. Learn more: www.blackdiamondgroup.com

Qualifications

• Experience with strictly typed languages and OOP. React, Node and GraphQL are our today’s day-to-day tools, but we are transforming our backend into a cloud native and scalable platform.
• Strong understanding of the SDLC, SOLID Principles, Data/Behavior/Test Drive Development, and a love of Clean Code.
• Proven application of software development patterns and best practices, including containers, microservices, event driven, and serverless.
• Working knowledge of diverse types of SQL and NoSQL databases. An asset if paired with TypeORM or other ORM experience.
• Familiarity with automated testing, JavaScript build and deployment systems such as Jest.
• Familiarity with a modern backend language like Go.
• Java experience is an asset.
• Experience with at least one cloud infrastructure such as Azure, AWS or similar.
• The ability to translate stakeholder needs into technical requirements.
• Excellent communication and critical thinking skills.
• Degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering

LodgeLink is inviting Backend Software Engineers in Calgary, AB to join our Ecosystem Squad to be part of the creation of the future of workforce travel. We are looking for talented individuals with a passion for coding, who enjoy learning about the latest technologies, strong problem-solving skills, and a user-focused approach. This role is hybrid - in-office with 20% flexibility to work from home.
As a team member, you will join an agile, audacious, inventive, collaborative, and dependable (our core values) team with a bold and opinionated vision of how we use technology to solve business problems. You will be continuously learning and building your skillset. We emphasized developing our team members to build them into well-rounded professionals.
You will be part of a cross-functional team that is responsible for the full software development life cycle, from conception to deployment. As a Software Engineer, you should be comfortable around both front-end and back-end coding languages, infrastructure as code, development frameworks, third-party libraries, and Agile methodologies.
The Ecosystem Squad helps to build and support all the external connections with our partners, core and key to LodgeLink’s platform. We excel at understanding LodgeLink’s unique business problems and translating stakeholder requirements into custom React, Node, GraphQL, REST and TypeScript based tools.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Develop web applications in a full-stack environment with React and Node, and GraphQL and REST APIs technologies.
• Have a backend focus and master one or more backend languages, for scale and re-use of components in an Event Driven and Service Oriented architecture.
• Take ownership of new features and leverage the team in creating, building, and integrating quality, test-driven code.
• Collaborate with the Architects, Product Owners, and your peers in finding the best solutions to our most challenging business and technical problems, using todays and future technologies.

Qualifications

• Experience with strictly typed languages and OOP. React, Node and GraphQL are our today’s day-to-day tools, but we are transforming our backend into a cloud native and scalable platform.
• Strong understanding of the SDLC, SOLID Principles, Data/Behavior/Test Drive Development, and a love of Clean Code.
• Proven application of software development patterns and best practices, including containers, microservices, event driven, and serverless.
• Working knowledge of diverse types of SQL and NoSQL databases. An asset if paired with TypeORM or other ORM experience.
• Familiarity with automated testing, JavaScript build and deployment systems such as Jest.
• Familiarity with a modern backend language like Go.
• Java experience is an asset.
• Experience with at least one cloud infrastructure such as Azure, AWS or similar.
• The ability to translate stakeholder needs into technical requirements.
• Excellent communication and critical thinking skills.
• Degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering.