Hello, we are Edify, one of the highest-ranked IT companies in Costa Rica and Central America according to Great Place to Work ®.
We're a consolidated technology services consulting firm specializing in education technology. We deliver unbelievably creative and rock-solid solutions for a wide range of clients, including major corporations, startups, educational institutions, and non-profit organizations.
At Edify we believe that bored employees make boring products. Here, there's no such thing. We help our clients design, build and run some of the most interesting ventures in the industry while promoting a warm, friendly and cooperative culture. Work and life should definitely be buddies, so we're serious about cultivating a great work environment.
Responsible for analyzing, designing, developing, maintaining, evaluating and assuring the quality and performance of different software system components and their respective relationships, supporting and guiding others in his work team.
Responsibilities:
- Lead the analysis of defects in the system to find their causes and correct them.
- Lead the project requirements analysis process.
- Ensure that code tests are kept up to date with respect to changes introduced by the developed components.
- Determine data storage, processing and transmission needs based on the requirements analyzed.
- Design and implement unit, integration and system tests.
- Lead the design of software components integrated to the system under construction or maintenance that implement the requirements analyzed. Participate in the implementation of these components.
- Lead and participate in the estimation of effort needed to implement the requirements analyzed.
- Be a reference for the team in the peer review of the code of their teammates (peer review).
- Define and follow processes and standards for code management in repositories.
- Define processes and standards for code management in repositories.
- Verify the correct functioning of tests and apply corrections where appropriate.
- Verify compliance with requirements and proper functioning of developed components as specified.
Required skills:
Advanced knowledge in:
- Object-oriented, functional, procedural and asynchronous programming paradigms.
- Software engineering processes (development cycle and quality control).
- Participation in agile software development methodologies: SCRUM, Kanban, among others.
- Software quality assurance (unit and integration testing).
- Design patterns.
- Development best practices to ensure efficiency, quality and maintainability.
- Best practices and mechanisms for deployment.
- Security, authentication and authorization mechanisms.
- Integration of services and software components.
- Error handling.
- Internationalization and accessibility.
- Real-time data management.
- Configuration management.
- Experience with microservices based systems.
- Multitenancy.
- Processes / background / jobs / concurrency / Messaging (queues, bus, subscriber).
- Documentation (design diagrams, README.md, API, wiki, etc).
Languages:
- Advanced knowledge in at least two of the following languages: Java, Javascript, Kotlinm Python, Golang, C#, Ruby, PHP.
- Knowledge in markup languages: HTML, XML, JSON, YAML.
- Knowledge of CSS and processors such as SASS/LESS.
- Advanced knowledge of SQL language.
- Experience with at least 2 modern frameworks for application development: NodeJs, Express, Spring, Rails, Next, Django, Flask, .Net Core or similar.
Tools:
- Advanced POSIX shell handling.
- Relational and non-relational databases (Postgres, MySQL, Mongo, Firebase, Dynamo DB).
- Code management tools (Source Control).
- Dependency management tools such as NPM, Yarn, Maven, Gradle.
- Build Managers tools such as Grunt, Gulp, Maven, Gradle.
- Precompilers such as TypeScript.
- Continuous integration process management tools such as Travis, Jenkins and CircleCI.
- Code management processes in repositories such as GitFlow and GitHub Flow
- Virtualization and Containerization.
- Experience in cloud computing and its services (AWS, Azure, GCP)
Requirements
Academic Training:
- Technician or Baccalaureate in Computer Engineering, Computer Science and related, or equivalent level of knowledge demonstrated.
- Certification of Scrum Fundamentals. (desirable)
Language:
- Technical and conversational English level C1 according to the Common European Framework.
Labour Experience:
- Minimum 5 years of experience in software engineering (at least one year as Senior Developer) 2 years of experience leading software projects.
Additional Information
Benefits
1. 100% work remote from any part in Costa Rica and outside of the country.
2. Monthly connectivity allowance.
3. Private health insurance for employees (90/10), 50% for beneficiaries (spouse and children).
4. International Health Insurance.
5. Educational assistance (courses, certifications, books).
6. Life insurance for employees.
7. $800 referral bonus.
8. Personal and psychological support through our wellness department.
9. Dental and optical insurance.
10. Snack and beverages.
11. Meal allowance if you want to work at the office.
