Senior Software Engineer

From Fivetran’s founding until now, our mission has remained the same: to make access to data as simple and reliable as electricity.

About the Role

Fivetran is looking for a talented Senior Software Engineer with a passion for building enterprise-grade software to join the team.

This is a full-time, hybrid position based out of our Toronto, Canada office.

Technologies You’ll Use

Java, Postgres, GCP, SQL, BigQuery, Bazel, BuildKite, Grafana

What You’ll Do

• Lead the design, development, and debugging of our intuitive best-in-class enterprise capabilities enabling Fivetran’s largest customers.
• Manage and lead projects simultaneously, coordinating with different stakeholders to ensure timely and quality delivery in an iterative development environment.
• Maintain and improve existing enterprise features; call for improvements in Fivetran's codebase and infrastructure.
• Demonstrably maintain high standards for code quality, performance, scalability, and reliability by conducting thorough testing and reviews.
• Collaborate across engineering on cross-functional projects creating innovative solutions.
• Make Fivetran the most reliable and secure component of our customers’ data infrastructure.
• Stay up-to-date with emerging technologies and industry trends, advocating for the adoption of new tools and methodologies to improve the development process.
• Work closely with the Customer Success and Go-To-Market (GTM) teams to assist in challenging customer situations.
• Provide technical expertise and solutions to ensure customer satisfaction and support Fivetran's growth objectives.
• Participate periodically in on-call rotation.
• Participate in the hiring process.

Skills We’re Looking For

• 5+ years of experience in the software industry with a passion for solving complex software engineering problems.
• Strong knowledge of and experience with OOP, preferably Java.
• Writes well-structured and performant code.
• Proven track record of leading and delivering large and complicated projects.
• Able to define project requirements and be proficient at designing the software and infrastructure to satisfy them.
• Experience understanding customer requirements and/or problems and breaking them down into engineering tasks.
• Be able to efficiently solve problems that unlock valuable use cases for our largest customers.
• Be able to dive into previously written code and both suggest and effect improvements
• Understands and can explain how to build high performance systems and processes.
• Enjoy mentoring and growing junior develops.
• Have an analytical mindset that helps you identify design flaws in existing systems and drive improvements.
• Hands-on experience working with any cloud technologies(AWS, GCP, Azure) and containerization methodologies like docker, K8s.
• Strong written and verbal English skills to support complex analysis.
• Knowledge of observability tools like New Relic, Grafana is a plus.
• Experience interacting with continuous integration tools like Buildkite/Circle CI.

Bonus Skills​

• Experience in data processing (ETL, ELT) and/or cloud-based platforms.
• Experienced working in a cloud environment utilizing AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, BuildKite, or similar technologies.