Senior Full-Stack Developer, Python And React

Location: Sovra's Calgary Office

About SOVRA

SOVRA is a leading public procurement platform serving over 7,000 government agencies and connecting them with more than 1 million suppliers across North America.SOVRA offers comprehensive, end-to-end solutions tailored for the public sector.

SOVRA’s solutions are purpose-built to address the unique challenges of public procurement, ensuring compliance, enhancing efficiency, and promoting transparency. Our commitment to innovation has been recognized with the Achievement of Excellence in Procurement (AEP) Certification from the National Procurement Institute, affirming our platform’s adherence to the highest standards in efficiency and vendor accessibility.

By leveraging SOVRA’s advanced tools and expansive supplier network, public agencies can optimize every tax dollar spent, drive better procurement outcomes, and deliver exceptional services to their communities.You can find more info about SOVRA at SOVRA.com

About the job

What will your main responsibilities look like?

In this role, you will be led to:                                       

• Collaborate with peers and the product manager to deliver value to customers.
• Propose innovative solutions to meet business needs.
• Participate in the design, development and deployment of micro-services, API and web applications.
• Develop solutions using programming languages and modern cloud concepts.
• Write automated tests and write infrastructure as code.
• Participate in debugging and problem solving.
• Design and implement user interfaces for web applications.
• Build and deliver quality commercial enterprise software in the Microsoft Azure cloud.
• Perform initial analysis, architecture, development and testing.
• Understand customer needs and build appropriate technical solutions.
• Be a key participant in product planning, reviews, and backlog maintenance.
• Review and challenge product requirements to help the team develop optimal solutions.
• Contribute to ongoing efforts to improve the development process and further automate development and test operations.

What elements of your professional background will be necessary and useful in this role?

• Experience of 7 years and more in web application development including: 
  • BackEnd development experience using NodeJS and Python (Flask API)
  • FrontEnd development experience with React frameworks (Next.js and others), and JS frameworks like Angular.
  • Knowledge of Tailwind CSS, TypeScript, SQL.
• Knowledge of unit testing, processes and best practices.
• You have experience working with platforms that expose APIs and extension points for 3rd-party developers.
• Experience with building and consuming Web services - API development (Restful) – Experience in integration for CRM (Salesforce, Ms Dynamics).
• Comfortable with large datasets, and experience with Relational and non-relational DBs.
• Ability to work in a rapidly changing Agile/Scrum/DevOps environment.
• Strong interest in developing technical knowledge and expertise.
• Dynamic, energetic and in solution mode.
• Very good interpersonal skills and likes to share opinion.
• Required: Authorized to work in Canada—unfortunately we are not able to sponsor work visas or transfers at this time.

What are the assets that would make you stand out? 

• Bachelor’s degree in software development or a related program.
• Experience with AWS services (IAM, RDS, DynamoDB, S3, API Gateway, Cognito, Lambda, Fargate, ES, etc.).
• Experience with Infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Experience with e-procurement and/or e-commerce technology products.

Thank you for your interest in SOVRA. However, only selected candidates will be contacted.

At SOVRA, we are committed to fostering an inclusive and equitable workplace. We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws. We provide a work environment free from discrimination and harassment. In addition, we are committed to ensuring pay equity across our organization and regularly review our compensation practices.