Software Developer (Askuity division) at The Home Depot in Toronto, ON  M5V 1K4

With a career at The Home Depot, you can be yourself and also be part of something bigger.
 

Askuity is a Toronto-based retail analytics software company operating as a division within The Home Depot (THD).  Through our supplier analytics program, Askuity’s mission is to enable suppliers and merchants at The Home Depot to make profitable, data-driven decisions and drive real-time execution.

Askuity is seeking an Intermediate Backend Developer eager to join our growing team. As a member of the development team at Askuity, you will help drive the technical direction of our industry-leading analytics platform that has a meaningful and immediate impact on our growing customer base. If you’re committed to great work and are constantly looking for ways to improve the systems you are responsible for, then we’d love to hear from you.

Key Responsibilities:

Code Development

• Get deeply involved in our technical direction while delivering well-tested, performant, and maintainable code for our data powered SaaS platform
• Deploy and run software in Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Evaluate new technologies and assess their suitability to solve challenges of today and into the future

Partnering

• Gain an understanding of the real-world problems of our users to help build a great product that exceeds the expectations of our customers
• Collaborate with product stakeholders to understand, design, and implement product features and realize our product vision to help our customers make better sense of their retail data
• Agile Scrum

Competencies:

• Action oriented
• Collaborates
• Communicates effectively
• Drives results

Skills:

• Backend frameworks – Scala, Play! Framework, Python, Flask
• Relational and NoSQL databases such as Postgres, Redis, Firestore, BigQuery, OLAP
• Functional programming – Typescript, Scala and AKKA/Pekko, or the desire to elevate your functional programming expertise
• Familiarity using AI coding assistants (ie vibe coding)
• DevOps (GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, YAML, GitHub pipelines, Spinnaker, etc) is a nice to have
• Frontend frameworks (Typescript, React) and DevOps frameworks (GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, etc) is a nice to have
• QA tools ad frameworks is a nice to have

Direct Manager/Direct Reports:

• Reports to Senior Manager, Software Development

Travel Requirements:

• Limited
• Travel to corporate headquarters annually, as requested

Physical Requirements:

• Extended Sitting
• Repetitive Tasks

Working Conditions:

• Working in an office setting: computer work, camera on virtual meetings

Minimum Education:

• University/College degree in a related area of study, or equivalent experience.

Minimum Years of Work Experience:

• Any professional experience, including Co-op or Internship work terms.

Minimum Leadership Experience:

• None

Certifications:

• None required, but any Google Cloud Professional certificates is a plus

Other Requirements/Assets:                                                                                                            

• Experience building service-oriented architectures and web applications – we have a lot of things that are HTTP and REST-based
• Experience with microservices based architecture running in a Kubernetes cluster
• Hands-on technical expertise and demonstrated ability to design and implement reliable, scalable, high performing solutions
• Experience working with a cloud platform and products is preferred
• Git and other development tools and processes including but not limited to IntelliJ, Visual Studio, etc
• Competent in the English language (oral and written)