Full Stack Developer

Overview:

Guidepoint’s Engineering team thrives on problem-solving and creating happier users. As Guidepoint works to achieve its mission of making individuals, businesses, and the world smarter through personalized knowledge-sharing solutions, the engineering team is taking on challenges to improve our internal CRM system and externally facing Portals to optimize the seamless delivery of our services.

As a Software Engineer (Full Stack), you’ll work with a team of engineers through challenging development projects. Come join a highly collaborative team of skilled engineers with a passion for quality.

This position can be hybrid in the Toronto area.

What You’ll Do:

• Collaborate in an agile environment with Product Management and Product Design teams to complete user stories and detailed design mockups that closely resemble the final product, and then build the product based on these designs
• Focus primarily on front-end development using React, creating engaging and user-friendly interfaces
• Work closely with other Full Stack Engineers on integrating front-end components with server-side logic using Node.js and Express
• Partner with QA and Application Support teams to triage and resolve bugs
• Collaborate with DevOps to automate the build, deployment, and distribution of SPAs with static assets
• Consume RESTful APIs, handle JSON payloads, and work with various payload contexts
• Integrate and work with OpenAI APIs to enhance conversational AI UX
• Write test units and documentation to ensure code quality

Minimum Technical Qualifications:

• 5+ years of professional experience as a senior-level individual contributor OR 2+ years in a high-growth startup that scales to over 10 engineering resources
• Expertise in React.js and modern JavaScript (including recent ECMAScript versions), with strong experience in HTML/CSS/JS and UX design
• Advanced proficiency in JavaScript frameworks, particularly React or TypeScript
• Solid experience with Node.js and Express for integrating with front-end components
• Proficiency in Git concepts such as branching, merging, pull requests, and conflict resolution using Bitbucket or GitHub

Preferred Technical Qualifications:

• Experience with server-sent events for real-time data
• Experience with deploying applications to Kubernetes
• Experience with OpenAI APIs, generative AI, and agent frameworks
• Experience with RabbitMQ and Redis implementation in Nose.js
• Prior experience leveraging issue tracking systems and wikis for documentation (e.g. Jira, Confluence)
• Exposure to Linux concepts, command line, SSH, SFTP, SCT, etc.

Soft Skills Required:

• Maintain problem solving skills and a proactive work style
• Strong interpersonal & communication skills
• Independent contributor with drive
• Collaborative and teamwork-oriented
• Accountable for work and take ownership of tasks

You will also be eligible for the following benefits:

• Paid Time Off
• Comprehensive benefits plan
• Company RRSP Match
• Development opportunities through the LinkedIn Learning platform

About Guidepoint: 

Guidepoint is a leading research enablement platform designed to advance understanding and empower our clients’ decision-making process. Powered by innovative technology, real-time data, and hard-to-source expertise, we help our clients to turn answers into action.

Backed by a network of nearly 1.5 million experts and Guidepoint’s 1,300 employees worldwide, we inform leading organizations’ research by delivering on-demand intelligence and research on request. With Guidepoint, companies and investors can better navigate the abundance of information available today, making it both more useful and more powerful.

At Guidepoint, our success relies on the diversity of our employees, advisors, and client base, which allows us to create connections that offer a wealth of perspectives. We are committed to upholding policies that contribute to an equitable and welcoming environment for our community, regardless of background, identity, or experience.

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