Software Engineer
MaxMind (www.maxmind.com) is looking for a talented, experienced, and highly motivated Software Engineer to help us develop and improve our products. We help protect thousands of companies worldwide from fraud, screening over a billion online transactions each year, and we provide IP intelligence data to thousands more. As a software engineer, you will play an important role in helping develop and maintain our products and platform.
This is a full time remote position, and we welcome candidates to apply from anywhere in Canada. You must be eligible/authorized to work in Canada.
The Position
As a Software Engineer, your job will be to carry out development projects both big and small. You may work on adding features to existing products, refactoring legacy code, fixing bugs in our open source APIs, or developing entirely new services. We're looking for someone with a background in software development who is comfortable working both independently and on a team, can make good technical decisions, and will write well-tested, robust code.
Our salary range for our Engineering roles begins at $140k CAD, with the specific offer depending upon skills and experience. See more about benefits and compensation below.
Our Development Practices
Our backend code is largely written in Go and Perl using PostgreSQL and Linux. We maintain high standards for our development practices. New backend code is expected to be written in Go, include automated tests run by TeamCity, and go through internal code review on GitHub Enterprise. The existing Perl code is being slowly rewritten in Go.
We use free software as much as possible, and we release code back to the community when we can do so. We're always improving the way we do development, and we expect you to participate in that process.
About You - Minimum qualifications
- Able to write high quality Go code. The position will primarily involve programming in Go and porting Perl to Go. A programming exercise will be given to all applicants.
- Comfortable developing for Linux or a similar platform.
- Experience writing tests and documentation.
- Excellent written and spoken communication skills.
- The ability to work with a geographically dispersed team.
Desired, but not required
- An interest in picking up new languages. Though most of our code is Go and Perl, we maintain open source libraries in several different languages.
- Open source contributions. Tell us about them!An interest in performance and security.
- Experience with Postgres or other relational databases.
- Experience working with a cloud provider. Our systems run on Google Cloud Platform.
- Experience doing code reviews.
Working at MaxMind
Our culture is very important to us. We’re friendly, collaborative, and work-focused. We don’t like office politics and unnecessary stress. We like to have productive workdays and don’t like work to chase us when we’re done for the day. We maintain a set of core, overlapping hours, but are flexible with specific start and end times and are understanding about appointments and life events. We care about helping each other succeed.
In a recent survey, employees listed having a supportive work culture, good co-workers, autonomy, and feeling trusted, valued, and respected as some of the things they liked most about working here.
MaxMind has a social mission. MaxMind donates over 60% of profits to charities.
MaxMind’s compensation strives to reward getting stuff done, quality of work, and working well with others.
We are a fully remote company, so communication centers around video chat, group chat, and Agile planning tools.
Benefits
In addition to competitive compensation, our Canadian benefits include medical, dental, vision, life, accidental death and dismemberment, critical Illness, short and long term disability insurance, Employee and Family Assistance Program, and paid parental leave. You also have access to a group Retirement Savings Plan. In lieu of a Canadian RRSP contribution we provide a bonus payout at the end of each year that employees may decide to use toward retirement savings.
Everyone participates in a company performance-based bonus plan. MaxMind offers a $2,000 USD professional development budget and five days for professional development annually.
Diversity and Inclusion
We're committed to diversity and inclusion and are mindful of incorporating them into all aspects of our company.
We encourage and sincerely welcome applications from candidates of color, women, queer candidates, candidates with family caregiving responsibilities, transgender candidates, and from other communities not well represented in the tech world.
See our complete diversity and inclusion statement - https://www.maxmind.com/en/company/working-at-maxmind.
Our Interview Process
One of the first steps in our interviewing process is a homework assignment, and we will ask you for a submission so we can gain insight into your work. The next step of our interview process would be a pairing session combined with a first round technical interview with our hiring manager and another member of the engineering team. This interview will cover questions specific to the role. Next, there would be a final interview with our COO and our HR Manager. That interview would be a more general / behavioral interview. The final step of our hiring process is reference checking.
We want to know about you, please share any projects or accomplishments and include a link so we can learn more.
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