Description:

Nelson Education Ltd. is the largest Canadian-owned K-12 publisher and is known for its innovative educational products and solutions.
The company aims to make learning accessible, engaging, and effective for all students.
Nelson has developed Edwin, a digital learning ecosystem that provides curriculum-linked content and tools for classroom success.
The Sr. Back-End Developer (Developer III) will report to the Engineering Manager and will be responsible for instrumenting, deploying, and improving multiple public-facing web applications in cloud-based Kubernetes clusters or Cloudflare edge workers.
This role involves designing and developing services to support front-end applications, including user authentication, APIs, and analytics systems.
The developer will be part of a team that responds to and diagnoses issues in the production environment.
Key responsibilities include designing client-side and service-side architecture, developing new features, writing clean and efficient code, collaborating with cross-functional teams, troubleshooting issues, writing automated tests, participating in code reviews, and staying current with web technologies.

Requirements:

Candidates must have 5-8 years of experience as a Sr. Developer.
Extensive experience managing AWS cloud services such as EKS, EC2, S3, VPC, SQS, and ElastiCache is required.
Strong experience with database systems including MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB is necessary.
Familiarity with managing Docker containers and hosting services in Kubernetes using Node.js and Golang is essential.
Experience with Kubernetes container orchestration and maintaining multiple clusters per environment is required.
Candidates should have a BSc. in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a similar field.
A results-driven attitude and the ability to work independently with minimal supervision are essential.
Strong communication and documentation skills are required.
Candidates must have a strong capacity to handle details and manage multiple priorities.
Nice to have qualifications include experience with IaC tools, familiarity with AI technologies, Elastic Stack, Octopus Deploy, Spacelift, Istio service mesh, and various testing frameworks.

The position offers a remote-first work environment.
Flexible working hours are available.
Competitive compensation is provided.
The company promotes a great company culture.
Employees receive great benefits and perks, including summer Fridays and partner discounts.