Contour Careers – Software Developer

Constellation Real Estate Group has over 20 years of experience partnering with real estate agents, helping them to leverage our software to meet more home buyers and sellers in their local markets. From lead generation to an intelligent Customer Relationship Management application, state-of-the-art websites, and excellent customer care, real estate agents and their clients’ experience rely on our software to make the home selling and buying a personal and professional experience.

Position

We are seeking a full stack

Software Developer

who has industry experience developing with Node.js/React and Ruby on Rails. Experience with PHP/WordPress is nice to have. This position will be responsible for supporting and maintaining a newly acquired software platform and will be acting as an extension of the division-based R&D department.

Job Responsibilities

• Software Design, Development and Product maintenance
• Work with other members of the software development team to deliver successful software products and report on project and deliverable statuses
• Develop code within an Agile development framework based on industry best practices
• Using the above to create applications that focus on exceptional quality and user-centric design principles
• Contribute to technical and design decisions within the team
• Understand and contribute to product requirements definition
• Build and utilize effective unit tests for new and existing codebase
• Build excellent working relationships with the development team and testers
• Attend company meetings as required
• Make presentations or demonstrations to team when applicable
• Use required company systems for task and time management

Communication and Collaboration:

• Engage with the collaborative team culture, share ideas and experiences, and be open and available to the suggestions of others in the team
• Collaborate with other departments to ensure a credible understanding of the user and business needs and translate this into exceptional software
• Create and review software documentation to capture requirements, design, process and evidence of compliance.

Job Qualifications:

Required

• Ideally possess a bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline with industry experience in full lifecycle development in a diverse technology environment
• 3+ years of software development experience in the relevant technology stack.
• Strong industry experience as a full stack developer, with relevant experience in both Node.js/React and Ruby on Rails. Strong proficiency in JavaScript and experience with modern datastores like ElasticSearch, Rethink, and PostgreSQL. Experience with PHP/Wordpress is a nice to have.
• Engage in problem decomposition, software architecture, interface design and clean, efficient, reusable code implementation
• Must have experience utilizing source control like GIT, CI/CD & Agile methodologies
• Understanding of Agile software engineering processes and methodologies
• Participate in Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) working practices such as daily meetings, sprint planning meetings, reviews, and retrospectives
• Utilize good technical practices such as automated unit testing, code reviews, continuous integration, test automation, source code control and secure development practices

Your personal characteristics will include:

• Excellent communication and presentation skills, to interact with stakeholders across the development lifecycle
• Should be logical and analytical, and an expert in problem-solving skills to craft technical solutions to complex business needs
• Collaborate to achieve team goals
• Creative and demonstrates flair
• Accurate, with high attention to detail
• Self-motivated, resourceful and keen to learn and share knowledge
• Able to remain calm and problem-solve under pressure.

Competencies:

• Eagerness to learn
• Problem Solving Skills
• Big Picture Thinking
• Positive Attitude
• Team Player
• Communication Skills

Exciting Benefits We Offer

• Market-leading Salary
• Medical Coverage Self & Dependents
• Parents Medical Coverage
• Provident Fund
• Employee Performance-based bonuses
• Home Internet Subsidy
• Conveyance Allowance
• Profit Sharing Plan [Tenured Employees Only]
• Life Benefit
• Child Care Facility
• Company Provided Lunch/Dinner
• Professional Development Budget
• Recreational area for in-house games
• Sporadic On-shore training opportunities
• Friendly work environment
• Leave Encashment