Back-end Developer
GHGSAT Montréal Full-time
This role is open to candidates in Montreal, Ottawa (Hybrid).
Candidate should be willing to periodically provide compensated support outside normal working hours.
GHGSat offers greenhouse gas detection, measurement, and monitoring services to industrial and government customers around the world. The company uses its own satellites and aircraft sensors, combined with third-party data, to help industrial emitters better understand, control, and reduce their emissions.SPECTRA is the web application delivering those insights to our customers.
GHGSat is looking for an innovative and experienced Backend developer with a passion for DevOps practices. Reporting to the Spectra team lead, working in a development team using Agile, you will support the full software development cycle from conception to deployment.As a Backend Developer, your responsibilities will include evaluating and architecting solutions, writing and testing code, analyzing data. As a DevOps practitioner, your responsibilities will include continuous deployment, monitoring and maintaining high availability of the SPECTRA application.
Your contributions will also be expected on cybersecurity compliance and disaster recovery. Our team is looking for someone with a strong motivation to tackle the important environmental issues that our planet faces today.
Responsibilities:
- Architect, develop, and maintain backend systems, databases, and API services
- Optimize backend, data structures and queries for high-volume, real-time data ingestion
- Develop and implement event-driven pipelines
- Ensure high availability of SPECTRA services
- Collaborate across teams
- Contribute to system architecture design
- Support, share knowledge and train other members
- Promote Agile best practices
Requirements
Required Skills:
- Strong experience with web backend technologies (Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, Django, GraphQL, REST API)
- Strong experience with Python (Django), SQL (PostgreSQL), and schema migration (alembic),
- Experience with AWS services (S3, RDS, SQS, SES)
- Strong experience with data models, DB queries and optimizations,
- Experience with Distributed Systems
- Experience with Message Queues (Kafka, RabbitMQ, Amazon Kinesis, Python Celery)
- Test-Driven Development and Quality mindset,
- Expert in Continuous Integration & Deployment (Git, Gitlab)
- Able to operate in a fast-paced multidisciplinary environment
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in computer science, computer engineering, or related field
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience in relevant roles
- Legally authorized to work in Canada
- Able to obtain Canadian government security clearance
- Fluent level of written and spoken English
Preferred skills:
- Able to contribute fullstack (React.js)
- Bilingual French/English
- Exposure to workflow engines (Argo CD/Workflows, Apache Airflows)
- Exposure to GIS systems (QGIS, GeoTIFF, GeoJSON, Titiler),
- Experience with monitoring stack (Prometheus, Grafana),
- Industry experience in data engineering and remote sensing
- Competitive salary + stock options for all full-time employees
- Health/Dental benefits, parental leave
- Paid Time Off + floating statutory holidays
- Flexible hybrid work environment
- Exciting mix of open-source and proprietary tech stack
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