Software Developer

Who we are:Geotab ® is a global leader in IoT and connected transportation and certified “Great Place to Work™.” We are a company of diverse and talented individuals who work together to help businesses grow and succeed, and increase the safety and sustainability of our communities. Geotab is advancing security, connecting commercial vehicles to the internet and providing web-based analytics to help customers better manage their fleets. Geotab’s open platform and Geotab Marketplace ®, offering hundreds of third-party solution options, allows both small and large businesses to automate operations by integrating vehicle data with their other data assets. Processing billions of data points a day, Geotab leverages data analytics and machine learning to improve productivity, optimize fleets through the reduction of fuel consumption, enhance driver safety and achieve strong compliance to regulatory changes. Our team is growing and we’re looking for people who follow their passion, think differently and want to make an impact. Ours is a fast paced, ever changing environment. Geotabbers accept that challenge and are willing to take on new tasks and activities - ones that may not always be described in the initial job description. Join us for a fulfilling career with opportunities to innovate, great benefits, and our fun and inclusive work culture. Reach your full potential with Geotab. To see what it’s like to be a Geotabber, check out our blog and follow us @InsideGeotab on Instagram.  Who you are:

We are always looking for amazing talent who can contribute to our growth and deliver results! Geotab is seeking a Software Developer who will be part of a team who builds a state of the art telematics platform that makes sense of the data collected by custom-built hardware. If you love technology, and are keen to join an industry leader — we would love to hear from you!

As a Software Developer your key area of responsibility will be writing high-performance Java, Python and Go code and SQL queries to process and store data in real-time, as well as writing JavaScript and TypeScript code to create fast and responsive user interfaces. You will need to work closely with other members of the development and technical teams.

To be successful in this role you will be a strong team-player with an entrepreneurial mindset, comfortable in a flat organization, highly organized, and able to work well under pressure to respond to fast changing priorities and deadlines. In addition, the successful candidate will have excellent written and oral communication skills, strong analytical skills with the ability to problem-solve to well-judged decisions, and the ability to manage multiple tasks and projects simultaneously.

• Listen and contribute to design discussions and make detailed notes and documenting requirements and technical design.
• Provide guidance to more junior team members, sharing knowledge across the teams.
• Write scalable, high quality and secure software in a variety of programming languages and environments, such as Java, Python, Go, JavaScript, SQL.
  
• Perform quality assurance by doing peer review, ensuring coding standards are followed, looking for logic errors and other bugs.
• Analyze call stacks, trace files, performance data to troubleshoot and identify the root cause of bugs.
  
• Participate in development of prototypes, minimum viable products and proofs of concept.
  
• Provide assistance to our support staff and resellers from a technical perspective. This may be in the form of on-call or ad-hoc questions
• relating to how certain features work or verifying the behaviour by reviewing code.
  
• Research new language features, frameworks and other relevant technologies and offer recommendations to Leads and senior leaders.
  
• Assist in defining best practices to be used in the team.
  
• Provide design documents and documentation to ensure efficient maintenance and code reuse.
  
• Ensure the functionality, performance, scalability, reliability, realistic implementation schedules and system architecture for each assignment.
  
• Participate in a 24x7 on-call rotating schedule.

• 1 - 5 years of required previous experience in a related field.
• Post-secondary Diploma/Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
  
• Knowledge of multiple general purpose programming languages (e.g. C#, Java, Python), as well as experience with Python, Google Compute Engine, and Google BigQuery.
• Working knowledge of Cloud computing experience with GCP, AWS and/or Azure.
• Technical competence using software programs, including, but not limited to, Google Suite for business (Sheets, Docs, Slides).
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, organizational, and communication skills with the ability to manage multiple tasks and engage with all levels of the organization.