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Senior Software Engineer (Back-end Focus)
Calgary, Canada 

About the Role 

LodgeLink is inviting Senior Software Engineers in Calgary to join our team to be part of the creation of the future of workforce travel. We are looking for talented engineers with a passion to create products that impact the industry, who enjoy learning about the latest technologies, strong critical thinking skills, and a user-focused approach.

As a part of the Software Engineering team, 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 influence and execute the technical vision and system design decisions on how the product is built, deployed, and operated on production. Specifically, you will collaborate with other software engineers and engineering leaders in designing new cloud-native solutions and rearchitecting existing ones.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you should be comfortable around back-end coding languages, AI powered development frameworks, third-party libraries, and modern system design patterns such as event driven, DDD, and microservices. Our current cloud stack includes GoLang, ReactJS, NodeJS, gRPC, PostgreSQL, Docker, all fully running on cloud, plus a few more things.

Responsibilities

• Your job #1 is to make the software engineering team better through doing, mentoring, and sharing. You are a role model, and you show by doing.
• 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 play a key role in evolving and scaling our platform to support substantial growth while maintaining strong reliability and performance.

Qualifications

• 7+  years of progressive career in software development lifecycle experience and still have a curiosity and are malleability to learn new ways.
• Mastery of SDLC, SOLID, Architecture Principles, Data/Behavior/Test Drive Development, and a love of Clean Code and of clean architecture.
• 5+ years of experience with modern technologies such as GoLang, gRPC, microservices, and NoSQL are assets. It's okay not to know all these technologies, we know you can learn fast because you know the principles and have strong software engineering foundations.
• A growing career in SaaS development patterns and best practices with multiple years in different architectures and industries is highly valued.
• Mastery in cloud-based architecture and fully automated release pipelines because this is the way.
• 5+ years focused on an API-first approach expertise with loosely coupled systems, and domain driven. 
• An advocate for and experience in effectively managing and planning technical debt so that ours does not grow.
• A commitment to leaving code/processes/people better than when you got there.
• An attitude and pride in quality code and have multiple approaches towards testing.
• Degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering.

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 options for benefits, with cost-sharing between the company and the employee. 401K Matching program.
• Free parking.
• Fun social events.

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

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer
Black Diamond Group is committed to diversity, equal opportunity and ensuring that our employees can thrive in an inclusive environment. We are pleased to consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, family status, veteran status, Indigenous status, national origin, age, disability, or any other legally protected factors. Accommodation for applicants with disabilities is available upon request during the recruitment process.

Company: LodgeLink