Trader Corporation is the team behind Canada’s leading automotive marketplace, autoTRADER.ca. We are a technology driven company that creates world class solutions for our users and dealer customers. We are expanding and need a Senior Database Developer to join one of our teams.
Key Areas of Responsibility:
• Design and develop elegant database solutions which are end-to end: from technical analysis and data implementation/architecture, through to unit testing, development, and integration testing.
• Create and maintain schema objects, including complex store procedures, indexes, triggers, and scripts.
• Participate in thorough code-reviews and use your eye for clean data structures to support maintenance and extensibility.
• Perform root cause analysis on defects, identify corrective action, and liaise with production support to resolve issues.
• Analyze query performance and perform index tuning.
• Administration of SQL databases including security, backup, restore, upgrades, auditing and replication.
• Work with the rest of the team to evaluate the suitability of 3rd party packages and solutions.
• Maintain continuous integration and continuous deployment for data apps, while keeping data environments synchronize.
• Participate in paid on-call rotation schedule to respond to alerts, as well as prioritize system improvements identified as part of monitoring.
Required Skills:
• Extensive knowledge of SQL Server and Azure SQL with expertise in stored procedures, functions, queries, views, and triggers.
• Cloud technology experience Azure and AWS.
• Experience with PostgreSQL.
• SQL Administration experience: upgrades, disaster recovery.
• Knowledge of Microsoft products including Azure Blog/Table storage, Document DB and Azure Data Factory.
• Knowledgeable in SQL tools like SSRS & SSIS.
• Strong experience with XML-based data design.
• Working experience on high-traffic websites and databases, while leveraging techniques to enable performance availability, security, and monitoring.
• Ability to deliver non-relational data stores when appropriate.
• Able to conceptualize a technical solution and relay it to other team members and stakeholders.
• Work with Trader’s architecture group to implement software against reference specification.
• Experience in building unit, component, and integration tests and knowledge of how to use this as a system contract between other system end points.
• Know how to work with source code management and delivery platforms like GitHub, Azure Dev Ops, and JIRA in a distributed team environment.
• Some exposure to C# development, including an understanding of SOLID principles.
• Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
• Able to work with a team.
Required Experience:
• University Degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science or related subject.
• 5+ years of experience in the online software industry; strong knowledge of data design, functionality, and scaled architectures.
• Expert level experience with Microsoft database development.
• Experience with database administration.
• PostgreSQL experience.
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What We Do
AutoTrader.ca is the leading advertising partner for Canadian automotive retailers and manufacturers. With over 25.7 million visits a month and more than 6 million total mobile app downloads, our largest automotive marketplaces – AutoTrader.ca and AutoHebdo.net – are the #1 source for all things automotive in Canada. The company offers retailers and manufacturers access to a robust audience of new and used car shoppers, best-in-class advertising services and rich data insights. AutoTrader.ca is proud to be the first to offer a completely integrated digital retail experience for consumers and dealers on a major Canadian automotive marketplace.
