Senior Full Stack Engineer (Co-Founder Level)

Title: Senior Full Stack Engineer
Category: Senior/Expert
Start Date: November 2020

Blue Koi is a Canadian startup based in Vancouver, aimed to disrupt the smart home industry, and transform how we live today in our increasingly connected home. We carry a vision to define how technology and the future can enrich our lives in our home. At Blue Koi, we are thought leaders and visionaries with a goal to disrupt the industry and impact the way people view smart homes today. Our culture at Blue Koi promotes teamwork, collaboration, integrity, respect, and community. As a startup, this is truly a rare chance for you to be part of the core design and create a lasting impact and influence smart home automations.

At Blue Koi, our team members are our most valuable asset. We put an emphasis on our team to enable a thriving environment with a strong focus on work-life balance and personal growth. We are seeking two senior full stack developer to join us as the core development team to shape and contribute to the core vision of the company in the smart home industry. This is a unique opportunity as we seek senior team members and expertise to help shape the future of smart homes. Come join a team of self-motivated individuals that fosters a high-performance collaborative team setting. You will be responsible for developing the framework and foundation of our smart home solution, providing our users an industry leading smart home control and automation capabilities.

The ideal candidate should have proven experience as a result-driven full stack engineer and will be expected to work in an agile environment with a DevSecOps mindset in design and coding. You will be working alongside with our co-founders in creating our MVP for product launch. Per-employee training budgets and paid industry conference attendance are some of the benefits of working with this team. Candidate with extensive knowledge and working experience with IoT and smart home automation is highly preferred.

We are seeking:
Detailed oriented individual with a passion for IoT and smart home automation
Strong application security approach and mindset
Forward thinker able to integrate with modern ideas and technology
Self-motivated and high performing individual who excels in a lean and agile workplace
Able to act independently on committed deliverables while working in a collaborative environment to ensure seamless integration of all aspects of the solution

You will be responsible for:

• Lead a full end-to-end development lifecycle of all components within our solution from design, development, testing, to operations
• Lead development efforts of various components such as server-client communications, cloud infrastructure and connectivity, and smart home device integrations.
• Contribute to product roadmap, design, research, prototyping and proof-of-concepts efforts as part of our collective vision
• Contribute and define our internal development process and maintain process documentations
• Develop and maintain a cloud infrastructure with a DevOps and orchestration/automation approach

Skillsets that we are seeking:

• 8+ years of proven work experience and relevant industry experience with ability to adapt and evolve with new technologies
• Mastery and proven results with two or more programming languages such as Java, JavaScript, Python, or C++
• Mastery and proven results with frontend development with Vue, React, or Angular
• Mastery and proven results with backend development such as NodeJS (Express), Python (Flask), or Java (Spring)
• Mastery and proven results with mobile development (Hybrid, native iOS, or Android)
• Expertise and proven experience with DevOps best practices
• Expertise with design, implementation, and operation of APIs using GraphQL, OpenAPI, or gRPC
• Expertise in edge computing with Raspbian, light-weight Linux distributions, or single computing operating systems
• Expertise in data engineering with Pub/Sub as messaging-oriented middleware, SQL/NoSQL databases, and data pipelines
• Proficiency with modern version control systems such as GitLab, Github, or BitBucket
• Proficiency with testing automations tools such as Mocha, Unitest, Junit or equivalent
• Proficiency with CI/CD practices with tools such as Jenkins, Travis, CircleCI or equivalent

Desirable Skills:

• Proven experience as a DevSecOps champion or worked in a DevSecOps environment
• In-depth knowledge of application security best practices
• Proven experience with cloud infrastructure, orchestration, and automation
• Proven experience working with, leading, and/or contributing to open sourced projects
• Previous work experience in a lean and fast-pace startup environment as a full stack engineer
• Proven experience working with IoT devices and hardware
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills
• Proven ability to create and maintain documentation throughout the software development lifecycle

Additional Benefits:

• Competitive compensation
• Work from home and remote work environment
• Extended medical and dental benefits
  
• Annual per-employee training budgets and skills development
• Annual paid industry conference attendance
• Employee stock options