Full Stack Developer (Remote)

**Please note that this role has recently been filled and we are not actively interviewing for this position anymore. You may still submit an application that will be considered on future opportunities that open.**

About Beyond Media and Circuit Virtual Tours

At Beyond Media, we’re helping physical spaces enhance storytelling with a visual marketing platform called Circuit. Circuit digitizes physical spaces to create immersive virtual tours and maps for places like universities, colleges, and commercial offices. Through an outstanding user experience and a relentless focus on analytics, we make it easy for organizations to connect with and convert prospects into customers.

We’re proud of what we’ve built in Canada, where Circuit is the #1 virtual tour platform in post-secondary education. Bootstrapped and self-funded, we have been customer-led since the beginning, resulting in a loyal customer base of enthusiastic advocates for our product. We’ve got a bold vision for the future, and are looking for talented individuals to join us in making it happen.

About You

You are passionate about building things, self-driven and entrepreneurial, and have experience working in both back-end and front-end environments. You are excited about collaborating with others, mentoring a team of software developers and engineers. You are eager to learn the ropes and build out the architecture of a growing platform.

The Role

The Intermediate Full-Stack Developer reports directly to the CTO, and works collaboratively with our team of developers, designers, and product owners to build new features and products. You’ll work across the entire technology stack, from the server-side and editor client-side aspects in optimizing workflows and data, to the front-end user experience that is accessed by hundreds of thousands of users each month. You’ll refine and implement functionality in Python (Django), HTML/CSS and Javascript (React).

In a lead role at a growing team, you'll shape development from ideation through to execution and deployment. This means true end-to-end ownership of initiatives.

What a typical week may look like

• Streamlining customer workflows by building client-facing administrative interfaces for editors with coherent styling, markup, and Javascript
• Developing robust, performant business logic and functionality in Python and Django
• Developing polished, elegant user interfaces that enhance engagement and empower end users with useful functionality
• Contributing to software maturity, stability, and deployment processes
• Exploring ways to incorporate cutting-edge immersive content and mapping tools into the experience
• Crafting tools, processes and documentation that help our dev team work more effectively
• Contributing ideas, discussing approaches, conveying technical priorities and working as an integral part of a growing team

Your Skills and Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional hands-on work experience in web development
• Confidence in Python and with core Django concepts and libraries (ORM, migrations, Django REST Framework, routing, templating)
• Proficient knowledge of Javascript, including experience with modern frontend libraries and tooling
• Demonstrated success in mentorship in software development, particularly using an Agile process and with large scale SaaS products
• Understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
• Solid understanding of HTML and CSS fundamentals, awareness of browser compatibility and responsive styling
• Additional technologies where knowledge is useful: AWS (S3, CloudFront), Celery, Redis, PostgreSQL, Wagtail (a Django CMS), continuous integration pipelines, Linux experience

Soft skills

• Excellent communication skills and the ability to build trusted relationships with fellow teammates, partners, and customers
• Driven to iterate, improve and enhance websites and apps to better serve and delight end users
• Self-motivated to take initiative and ownership of your work
• Strong attention to detail, for visual design and interactivity
• Have a user-centric mindset
• Up to date with best practices and advancements in web development
• Collaborates well in a team environment
• Open to new tools and methodologies
• Ability to speak to past projects and work

What’s in it for you?

Join a growing team of enthusiastic product managers, UX designers, developers, and content creators who are passionate about memorable user experiences. Work directly with customers on a tech platform being used by hundreds of thousands of end users. Ownership is part of our philosophy. You're encouraged to think like an owner, rather than an employee. In addition to salary, you'll benefit from stock options and the opportunity to shape the future of the company.

Employee perks include:

• Competitive salary
• Comprehensive health benefits package
• Equity options
• Individual and team training and development
• Macbook/professional grade equipment provided
• Team outings

Learn about our values here

https://www.madewithcircuit.com/about-us

Other Details

Type: Permanent Full-Time

Job Location: HQ is in Markham, but candidate will be working remotely