About Family Innovation Corp.

Family Innovation Corp. (FIC) is a multi-family office providing multiple services, including estate planning, risk management, financial counsel, trusteeship, investment advice, and other services.

We recognize excellent relationship management, accurate, actionable, and sound advice, and the desire to deliver the best quality work, improving the groups overall performance and increasing its value-added capacities.

Role Overview:

We are looking for Senior Back-End Software Engineer for one of our portfolio companies. We are working on a transformational project that we believe will have a global impact, and we expect our team members to solve complex, unique technical problems on a daily basis. Our team members are given a high degree of product ownership, including the latitude to propose and implement approaches that can be divergent from all standard or existing solutions.

Responsibilities

• Build backend API features
• Database design
• Meaningfully contribute to product planning, project management tasks and overall company development
• Mentor and lead a medium sized team
• Handle task creation, task breakdown, and distribution
• Improve our infrastructure and continuously improve our Backend Team

Desired Skills or Experience

• Five (5) years of work experience in a development agency or company development environments
• Experience leading small to midsize multi product backend teams with demonstrated ability to mentor, grow team members as well as provide technical guidance and oversight on implementation direction
• Experience designing RESTful API and microservices architecture
• In-depth experience with Laravel/Lumen framework
• Very Strong database design and optimization experience
• Solid experience with debugging and identifying performance bottlenecks
• Experience with Postgres (SQL) and Redis (In-memory DB) or similar
• Strong Knowledge of security best practices
• Good working knowledge of API/microservices authentication/security flows (JWT, OAuth and similar)
• Experience writing and maintaining automated unit/feature/mutation testing (PHPUnit, Infection, Bats)
• Solid analytical and problem-solving mindset combined with experience troubleshooting large scale systems

Nice to Have Skills or Experience

• GitHub profile with sample projects you would like to showcase
• Experience working in start-up environments
• Two (2) years of work experience in a dev agency or company environments
• Experience with CI/CD systems (CircleCI or similar)
• In-depth knowledge of Linux systems (specifically Ubuntu/Apline)
• Container tools experience with Docker or Kubernetes
• Solid understanding of building scalable, high performing systems and services
• Experience working with modern frameworks such as VueJS, NestJS
• Expertise with big data, analytics, machine learning, and data personalisation

If you are interested in changing the way the world communicates, and then subsequently evaluates and monetizes content, we would love to speak with you. This position is a unique opportunity for an individual interested in launching a transformational product in a challenging, dynamic work environment.

We are looking for exceptional individuals, and from there we can work with all levels of experience. If what we are doing is of interest to you, but you are not sure if you fit into this role, we look forward to engaging to find the right position.

Salary and Benefits

• $110,000 - 120,000 per annum plus an options grant commensurate with capacity for contribution to the team

Position Type

• Nature: Permanent, full-time, and in person
• Time Commitment: 40 hours per week
• Work Location: Vancouver & Toronto
• Start Date: Immediate

Please note: Candidates must be currently authorized to work in Canada

We are an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.