Senior Full Stack Software Developer

Job Description

As the largest Canadian-owned and operated K-12 publisher, Nelson Education Ltd. is Canada's only heritage education content provider, known for its innovative products and solutions catering to learners across the country.

Nelson is on a mission to make learning accessible, engaging, and effective for all. That's why Nelson continuously strives to create dynamic curriculum-aligned content that caters to diverse learning styles, fostering critical thinking, creativity, and life-long learning.

In response to the evolving education landscape, Nelson developed Edwin, a digital learning ecosystem. Edwin is a learning platform for classroom success, providing curriculum-linked content, engaging tools and unparalleled support to reach every student.

Nelson is redefining education and making a positive impact on the way knowledge is acquired and shared by creating the possible, one learner at a time.

About the Role

Reporting to the Team Lead, Development, the Senior Full Stack Developer (Developer III) is responsible for instrumenting, deploying, and improving multiple public-facing web apps in our cloud-based Kubernetes clusters or Cloudflare edge workers. This role is also responsible to design and develop the services used to support the front-end apps, such as the user auth, APl's, and analytics systems, and is an integral part of our Development team responsible for responding to and diagnosing issues in our production environment.

Key Accountabilities

• Design client-side and service-side architecture.
• Design and develop new features and functionality for web applications using technologies such as Golang, Typescript, gRPC, messages, and caching.
• Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product management and design, to understand requirements and develop solutions.
• Troubleshoot and debug issues as needed.
• Write automated tests to ensure code quality and reliability.
• Continuously improve the development process and best practices.
• Participate in code reviews and mentor junior developers.
• Write effective APIs.
• Create security and data protection settings.
• Write technical documentation.
• Stay current with new and evolving web technologies and techniques.
• Actively participate in the SCRUM process. Our process involves minimally necessary meetings and ceremonies. It’s based on an evolving process directed by the principle of keep what works and change what doesn’t.

Requirements

Must have

• 5-8 years of experience as a Senior Developer.
• Extensive experience managing AWS cloud services including EKS, EC2, S3, VPC, SQS, and ElastiCache.
• Strong experience with database systems such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB.
• Familiarity managing docker containers, and hosting services in Kubernetes using Node.js and Golang.
• Experience with Kubernetes container orchestration and maintaining multiple clusters per environment.
• Familiarity with the basic building blocks for setting up services on cloud providers: virtual machines, object storage, network CIDs, and L4 and L7 load balancers.
• BSc. in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a similar field.
• Results-driven and can work independently with minimal supervision.
• Strong communication and documentation skills.
• Strong capacity to handle details; follow through and manage multiple priorities.
  

Nice to have

• Experience with IaC such as OpenTofu or equivalent.
• Familiarity with evolving AI technologies like LLMs and RAG.
• Familiarity with Elastic Stack.
• Familiarity with Octopus Deploy.
• Familiarity with Spacelift.
• Familiarity with Istio service mesh.
• Familiarity with .proto files, code generation, and gRPC microservices.
• Familiarity with testing frameworks such as Storybook and Playwright.
• Experience with Next.js and RSCs.
• Interest or experience with Data Analysis such as Causal Inference analysis, Pre-Post analysis, and Sensitivity analysis.
• Familiarity with GNU/Linux or BSD operation system and shells including ls, ln, cp, mv, chmod, chown, ps, cat, grep, find, sed, and awk commands.
• Interest or experience in other languages being considered for future use such as Zig, Rust, and Gleam.

Benefits

Compensation

The base salary range for this position starts at $110,000 per annum based on experience. Compensation is part of our broader Total Rewards package, which includes benefits and programs that support employee well-being and growth.

What We Offer

At Nelson, we believe in taking care of our people.

Your well-being, growth, and work-life balance matter to us, which is why we offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support you—professionally and personally.

Health & Wellness

• Flexible and customizable health, dental, and paramedical plans for employees and their families
• Health Spending Account (HSA) for medical, hospital, or dental costs not covered by insurance
• Personal Spending Account (PSA) for wellness expenses, including fitness and health related products
• A comprehensive Employee Assistance Program (EAP) providing confidential support spanning from mental health services to financial counselling, and many things in-between

Financial & Professional Wellbeing

• Pension plan with company matching contributions
• Registered Retirement Pension Plan to help secure your future
• Annual educational reimbursement for professional development
• Access to LinkedIn Learning for continuous skill growth

Flexibility & Time Off

• Hybrid work model with remote and in-office options
• Flexible work hours (divisional dependent)
• Generous paid time off policies, including vacation time, sick leave, parental leave top-up, personal days, and more
• Annual paid volunteer day to support causes you care about
• Holiday closure from Christmas to New Year’s
• Summer Fridays

Don’t have 100% of the above qualifications? Do you still think Nelson is a great fit for you? We encourage you to apply anyway!  

Our EDI Statement

Nelson teaches the world by learning from everyone in it. 

We are committed to fostering an equitable, diverse, and inclusive workplace environment. This is an integral part of our company’s culture and mission that aligns with our four key pillars of Employee Diversity, Developing Authentic and Accurate Content, Amplifying External Voices, and Supporting the Local Community and Beyond.

We believe in the power of education and our ability to impact social change.  Truth, honesty, integrity, and respect guide our decisions and actions in the development of learning solutions that empower success for all educators and learners. 

We value a respectful, inclusive, and safe workplace that nurtures belonging and represents many different cultures, backgrounds, perspectives, and opinions.  Everyone is free to be who they are. 

We foster and continue to build relationships that are equitable, diverse, and inclusive with existing and future partners in education.

We commit to holding ourselves accountable by creating measurable short and long-term goals that place equity, diversity, and inclusion at the core of what we do in our resources, the workplace, the educational community, and in the larger society. 

We strive to build an inclusive world for everyone.  We are stronger together.

AI and Automated Hiring Tools

Nelson uses AI support tools in our applicant tracking system to help with tasks such as summarizing points and anonymizing applications. All candidate screening, assessments, and hiring decisions are done by people.

Interview Outcome Notification

Nelson is committed to keeping candidates informed. All candidates who attend an interview for a publicly advertised role will be notified of the outcome of their candidacy.  Candidates will be notified of the hiring decision no later than 45 days after the last interview.

Our Commitment

Nelson is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to Inclusion, Equity and Diversity. As part of this commitment, we do not discriminate on the basis of age, race, sex, gender, gender identity, colour, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, marital status, citizenship, veteran status, or disability status. 

Should you require any accommodation during our recruitment and selection process, please reach out to [email protected].