Junior Software Developer (hybrid)

Company Description

Rewind is a service that protects the critical data that powers businesses of all sizes. Our focus is on backing up data that lives in the cloud - in apps like Jira, GitHub, Confluence and Shopify. We are backed by Insight Partners, Inovia, Bessemer and Atlassian Ventures and are proud to be recognized as one of Canada's 50 fastest growing technology companies (2023 Deloitte Fast 50). We invite you to read our startup story to learn where we came from and where we’re going.

Read about our mission, story and values here.
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Some of our Blogs might help you get a better understanding of what we do here. You can find them all here.

Thriving at Rewind:

We embrace the fast-paced, ever-changing nature of startup life. If you love working with speed, agility, and creativity, you’ll feel right at home here. Here's what it takes to succeed with us:

• Team-First Mentality: We put teamwork at the core of everything we do, believing that we are better when we are together. Success is shared, and when the team wins, we all win.
• Performance-Driven Mindset: We are proactive, goal-oriented, and focused on delivering tangible, high-quality results. We go beyond meeting expectations - we aim to exceed them.
• Flexible Work-Life Approach: We encourage balance and understand the need to recharge. While we stay agile for urgent needs, we make sure there's time to recover and enjoy life.
• Customer Centricity: Our commitment to customers shapes everything we do. We listen, build relationships, and innovate - from our dedicated customer support team to our engineers, everyone at our company is focused on solving problems that matter most to our users.
• Taking Initiative: We value ownership and proactive problem-solving. We encourage team members to think creatively, take ownership, and lead improvements. Your ideas and actions drive our success.
• We Make Time for Fun: We work hard and make time to enjoy the journey. It’s not just about hitting milestones—it’s about making the experience rewarding along the way.

Job Description

The development team at Rewind is made up of teams of 4-7 people; these people work together, collaboratively, to build new features and functions for our amazing customers.

In broad terms, each member of the team is responsible for the following:

• Collaborating with other members of the development team to derive the best possible design to meet requirements
• Implementing, testing, documenting, and maintaining back-end systems for multiple high-traffic services
• Maintaining and enhancing the front-end UI/UX for our application
• Providing constructive feedback in the form of code and design reviews
• Looking for ways to improve our development and deployment processes
• Ensuring security and performance of our products

Day to day, you will work in a scrum team to bring new features to our growing list of services. We are on a mission to backup the cloud, so developing reliable, securable, scalable and supportable code is a must. You will help put out some fires, especially the ones you accidentally created (we value accountability), including incident response and remediation, but your main focus will be the reliability and robustness in all the things you help build. Less-flammable apps; fewer smouldering embers; automated fire suppression.

This job isn’t about moving mountains. Yes, we want to be proud of running top-flight, healthy products, but we also want to be kind, considerate, fair, flexible and calm (especially in a crisis).

Key Responsibilities:

• You will be part of our development team responsible for backing up over billions of items for over 20,000 businesses.
• Your role will be huge; you will make decisions and write code that will help steer the business.
• You will be enhancing existing platform integrations, as well as adding new functionality across all of our platforms.
• You will be responsible for ensuring the quality of each production update, including finding ways to improve and optimize overall platform performance.
• Ideal candidates will share our passion for simplicity, and help further improve the usability of the application together with other team members.
• You will be participating in the R&D on call rotation on a regular basis.

Qualifications

We are looking for candidates with 1-2 years of experience as a Software Developer. You must have some working experience with Ruby on Rails, along with other common libraries such as RSpec.

You should also:

• Have experience with React (or other well-known framework) for building interactive user interfaces
• Know your way around Linux and feel comfortable working from a terminal.
• Know what "our code lives in git" means. 
• Have working experience with REST APIs and the ability to expertly navigate developer API documents.
• Be comfortable wandering around a database, e.g., PostgreSQL.
• Have working experience with GraphQL (an asset).
• Have Typescript/Javascript experience (an asset).
• Have a general understanding of cloud-based offerings (cloud experience such as AWS, GCP, or Azure is a definite asset).
• Be self-motivated and possess strong organizational and time-management skills.
• Have a problem-crushing attitude.
• Be able to successfully manage multiple projects simultaneously and handle a fast-paced work environment, new challenges, and changing priorities.
• Understand the importance of this quote - "Customer service is an attitude, not a department".

Additional Information

Where You’ll Work
Our organization follows a hybrid work structure where employees work from the office three days/week. This role will be based out of our Ottawa office.

How Rewind Will Support You
We know that enjoying the journey is just as important as reaching our goals. We work hard to create a positive, inclusive environment where fun and laughter are part of our everyday routine. We also offer a variety of benefits to support your success both at work and in your personal life which includes but is not limited to: 

• Flexible work hours
• Employee stock options
• Health benefits
• 3 weeks vacation
• 7 life leave days
• 2 Level Up days for professional development
• 1 volunteer day
• Summer hours (off every other Friday from June - September) and office closed during the holiday break in December
• 4 week sabbatical after 4 years with us
• Paid parental leave
• $5000/year professional development allowance (you can take courses, buy books, attend conferences, cover certifications, etc)
• $1000/year wellness/home office allowance

Rewind is committed to building an inclusive, supportive place for you to do the best and most rewarding work of your career. We value how each new hire is an opportunity for us to bring in a different perspective, and we are always eager to further diversify our company. We strongly encourage candidates of all different backgrounds and identities to apply.