Junior Backend Developer

About Us

We empower charities and non-profits across Canada by delivering world-class lottery management services and cutting-edge technology solutions. We’re passionate about helping our partners achieve their fundraising goals while providing seamless and innovative experiences for their supporters.

Stride is part of the Jumbo Interactive Group (ASX-300 JIN)—Over the past 30 years, we’ve grown from humble beginnings with a single computer to a global technology company. Partnering with over 15,000 good causes worldwide and helping raise more than $260 million last financial year.

What you will be doing:

You will be involved in maintaining and supporting core business systems and analyzing, developing, testing, implementing and documenting changes to these systems that will contribute to the organization's ability to achieve its goals.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Responsible for the delivery of business or system solutions within a Scrum Agile delivery methodology.
2. Diagnosing, replicating, isolating and debugging software problems and performing problem resolutions.
3. Developing and maintaining interactive e-commerce web applications and backend systems, primarily using Microsoft .NET Core (7 & up), ASP.NET Core (7 & up), VUE/NUXT (2 and/or 3), Typescripts and CSS, operating within an Agile Sprint framework (Scrum).
4. Responding to development and maintenance requests via a task tracking system (Jira), and participating in daily team scrum meetings.
5. Participating in peer code review and QA processes.
6. Contributing to quality assurance by improving maintainability and testability of the existing codebase by developing additional automated test components.
7. Delivering reliable software releases as part of a whole team release process.
8. Maintaining an understanding of the latest applications and programming practices.
9. Staying up to date with industry developments and trends in back-end development.

Requirements

1. 3+ years’ experience using the following skills:
2. ASP.NET Core (7 or 8) (Programming language C#).
3. Modern web technologies (VUE, TypeScript, Node, HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, highly regarded).
4. Relational databases (MySQL).
5. Source Version (GitHub).
6. Authentication (Firebase, AUTH0).
7. Able to work in a self-directed fashion while also contributing to team goals and harmony.
8. Strong desire to learn new technologies/methodologies.
9. Good interpersonal communication skills.
10. Good analytical and problem-solving skills.

Desirable

1. Tertiary qualification in Information Technology or equivalent.
2. Previous experience in Cloud Computing (Azure).
3. Exposure to Agile workflows, Automated testing, and Code review.

Our Ways of Working

At Stride, we value balance and flexibility. Based in Calgary, our hybrid working model combines in-office collaboration (3 days per week) with WFH work (2 days per week).

Find Your Freedom at Stride:

At Stride, we're all about ensuring our team thrives as a valued member. Look forward to:

1. Commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion across the employee career journey.
2. An Employee Assistance Program where you can access counselling and coaching sessions.
3. Focus on talent management, including career and skills development.
4. Health & Wellbeing activities.

We are a 2024 Circle Back Initiative Gold Employer – we commit to respond to every applicant.