[Hiring] Junior Software Developer @Hootsuite

Role Description

We’re looking for a Junior Software Developer who can design, build, test, and ship high quality software that delivers value to our customers. You’ll work on a small and agile team that continuously incorporates feedback to refine and improve the products and features you deliver.

• Deliver low-complexity projects ensuring alignment with coding and design standards, testing practices, and company guidelines for security, accessibility, and privacy.
• Contribute to the successful execution of the team’s roadmap by asking questions, providing input, and promptly escalating identified risks and scope changes.
• Actively engage in team activities, working out loud, learning from peers, contributing to code reviews and documentation as you work towards achieving team goals.
• Actively engage in troubleshooting, addressing minor bugs independently, and collaborating with senior team members to resolve more complex issues.
• Work within a cross-functional team, fostering positive team relationships, and maintain effective communication with peers and stakeholders.
• Use modern web technologies to have a positive impact on developer workflows and infrastructure.
• Work with Jenkins, our CI/CD platform, to improve developer experience and support delivery of a reliable, high-quality product—contributing to pipeline maintenance, optimization, and automation efforts.
• Assist in the investigation and execution of technical initiatives that drive meaningful, sweeping improvements across our software development lifecycle.
• Engage with our dependency management tooling and internal package ecosystem to keep our codebase secure, current, and well-maintained.
• Gain broad, hands-on exposure to the full spectrum of tools, technologies, and architectural decisions that underpin modern front end development.

Qualifications

• A degree in Computer Science or Engineering, and 1-2 years of experience developing and maintaining software (including co-op terms and internships) or an equivalent level of education or work experience.
• Ability to learn about and use root cause analysis to identify and address bugs and outages.
• Learn and follow existing architecture concepts and best practices to extend existing software modules and components.
• Learn about and follow basic security and compliance practices in daily work.
• Follow common agile processes and continuous integration and delivery practices to ship stories and own low complexity epics/projects.
• Can collaborate and communicate effectively within a team.
• Actively seek guidance, feedback, and learning opportunities within the team.
• Understand roadmaps and participate in delivering on them effectively.
• Customer Focus: demonstrates a desire to proactively help and serve internal/external customers meet their needs.
• Perseverance: pursues everything with energy, drive, and a need to finish.
• Resilience, Tolerance for Change/Ambiguity: can effectively cope with change.

Requirements

• Solution seeker focused on tackling new challenges and solving problems.
• Lifelong learner with a growth mindset.
• Resilient adapter who brings a thoughtful, calm approach in the face of change.
• Intentional collaborator who builds positive working relationships.
• Critical challenger who asks difficult questions to get to the best end result.
• Active communicator who listens actively and communicates clearly.
• Integrated thinker who understands how their team’s work drives broader organizational goals.
• Accountable owner who takes pride in their work.
• Bar-raiser who helps the team grow and succeed.

Benefits

• Accommodations will be provided as requested by candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.
• This posting is for a current vacancy for which we are actively hiring.

Company Description

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