Sr. Staff Engineer

at  LodgeLink

QUALIFICATIONS

• Beyond 10 years of full software development lifecycle experience and still have a curiosity and are malleability to learn new ways. At least 3 years as staff engineer level or higher.
• Mastery of SDLC, SOLID Principles, Data/Behavior/Test Drive Development, and a love of Clean Code.
• Experience with GraphQL is an asset, we know not everyone has it. We know you can learn fast.
• Proven application of cloud development patterns and best practices with multiple years in tech leadership roles.
• A commitment to leaving code/processes/people better than when you got there.
• A proficiency in cloud-based architecture and automated release pipelines.
• An advocate for and experience in effectively managing and planning technical debt so that ours do not grow.
• An API-first approach expertise with loosely coupled systems, and domain driven.
• An attitude and pride in quality code and have multiple approaches towards testing.

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

ABOUT THE ROLE

As a part of the software engineering leadership, you will join an agile, audacious, inventive, collaborative, and dependable team with a bold and opinionated vision of how we use technology to solve business problems. You will own and execute the technical vision and system design decisions on how the product is built, deployed, and operated on production. Specifically, you will be the point of reference across all engineering teams for consultation on design, work being contemplated or built as part of the product roadmap.
As a Sr. Staff Software Engineer, you should be comfortable around both front-end and back-end coding languages, development frameworks, third-party libraries, and modern system design patterns such as event driven and DDD. Our current stack includes ReactJS, NodeJS, GraphQL, MySQL fully running on Azure, plus a few more things.
This role is located in Calgary, AB, and is in-office with 20% flexibility to work from home.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Your job #1 is to make the software engineering team better through mentoring, teaching, and doing. You are a role model.
• You will enforce the best coding practices while being a strong advocate and innovator for continual improvement. Your codebase will be better every sprint.
• You will create the tools and templates so that all the other developers will say “wow, this is easy.”
• In the next few years, you will scale our platform to manage over 1,000 times the current load while keeping the uptime at 100%.