FULL STACK DEVELOPER

Division: IT
Job location: Remote (Ontario, Quebec, Alberta)
Hours: 40 hours per week, Monday to Friday
Employment type: Full-time Permanent
A little about us
Hi, we’re Aurora Cannabis, and we’re so excited to meet you!
We’re a global cannabis company with operations across Europe and North and South America. We’re driven by our passion to help people improve their lives and have a diverse team who bring their best every day, so Aurora can be the cannabis provider of choice for patients and consumers. We love our work, and we especially love our high quality, innovative brands that make up the Aurora family – from Aurora, Aurora Drift, San Rafael ’71, Greybeard and Whistler.
Our people combined with our collective passion for the industry is what makes Aurora a special place to work and defines what we call our “A-Team”. We are a high-performing team of cannabis experts, innovators, and champions, that work, learn and win together. We think BIG, act BOLD and execute with PURPOSE in all that we do, and will stop at nothing to cultivate the ultimate cannabis experience for our community.

JOB SUMMARY

Reporting to the Manager, IT Commercial Solutions, we are looking for a talented and motivated Full Stack Developer to join our dynamic team who enjoys working in a fast-paced environment. As a Full Stack Developer, you will be responsible designing, supporting, maintaining & developing front-end Web applications and back-end database integrations including Shopify eCOMM Solution, websites and web-based user interfaces supporting automated processes. You will focus on designing and ensuring our systems are efficient, scalable, and user-friendly Your responsibilities will also include providing support, recommending updates, and implementing optimizations based on feedback from stakeholders. You will play a crucial role in ensuring our products meet the highest standards of quality, reliability, and performance.
Sounds Interesting? Here’s a little more…

As the Full Stack Developer you will be involved in …

• Work across the full stack, building highly scalable distributed solutions that enable positive user experiences and measurable business growth
• Communicate & collaborate regularly with stakeholders, project managers, quality assurance teams, UI/UX design and marketing teams and other developers regarding progress on long-term technology roadmap
• Develop new features and infrastructure in support of rapidly emerging business and project requirements
• Ensure that customer facing applications are designed to be highly available, observable, and resilient adhering to software engineering best practices.
• Assume leadership of new projects, from conceptualization to deployment
• Ensure application performance, uptime, and scale, and maintain high standards for code quality and application design
• Work with agile development methodologies, adhering to best practices and pursuing continued learning opportunities
• Recommend systems solutions by comparing advantages and disadvantages of custom development and purchased alternatives
• Execute and adhere to software development lifecycle best practices
• Develop technical design documentation.
• Provide ongoing support for existing systems, troubleshoot issues, and recommend solutions.
• Participate in application auditing, user access reviews, and audit walkthrough meetings as part of IT General Controls and SOX compliance requirements.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology.
• 7+ years of experience in designing and developing web applications
• Experience in leading development teams
• Excellent knowledge of and experience with: Java, ReactJS, NodeJS, PHP, NoSQL database services such as DynamoDB and Cosmos DB, RESTful APIs, version control tools such as GitHub and Bit Bucket, and Shell Scripting
• Experience working with Shopify Platform, including Liquid templates, ReactJS headless front-end, Java Script, CSS, Shopify Ruby scripting, APIs and custom private Shopify Apps
• Experience working in AWS (Lambda, EC2, S3, CloudFront, Route53) and Azure
• Strong software development skills, including product design, development, testing, deployment, and long-term support.
• Excellent debugging, troubleshooting and optimization skills
• Experience in unit, integration, regression and performance testing