Job Title

Senior Back-End Developer

Job Description

We're looking for creative individuals who are ready to make an impact. If you're passionate about leveraging technology to help associations make our world better and excited to jump in with both feet, then we want to hear from you. Join us in revolutionizing the way associations foster knowledge sharing and growth.

Responsibilities At first, you would be:

• Working closely with the team to get a full understanding of our products, APIs, and the infrastructure that sustains them
• Getting comfortable with the code bases and environments by debugging issues, working on bug fixes, and building new features

As you get settled, you would begin:

• Guiding the architecture of any new products or features as they are conceived in a way that lends itself both to stability and flexibility
• Contribute throughout our projects’ lifecycle; specifying time estimates, gathering requirements, and setting expectations
• Maintaining projects including debugging and addressing infrastructure issues
• Working with the team to build out new products and features
• Ensuring the quality of any deliverables as they are developed
• Ideating on ways to improve/advance the product(s) or service(s) alongside team members
• Perform such other software development, architectural, or technical tasks as may reasonably be assigned by Showcare from time to time

Competencies and Skills

• Adaptable, self-driven, and excited to learn new technologies
• Strong engineering practices, self-education and continuous improvement
• Inventive in developing effective solutions while collaborating with a remote team
• Excellent at communicating using any medium (chat, email, voice, video)
• Able to manage your time efficiently, in a self-directed work environment
• An advocate for organization and documentation in flight

Restrictions

• No telecommuting
• No Agencies Please

Requirements

Qualifications and Experience

• Interest in working in the association meeting industry
• Deep expertise in Python and Django, including the internals of Django ORM, querysets, signals, and middleware, not just using Django, but understanding its architecture.
• Advanced proficiency with Django REST Framework (DRF): capable of architecting and optimizing large-scale REST APIs with complex serialization, throttling, permissions, and versioning logic.
• PostgreSQL expert: fluent in query optimization, index tuning, analyzing execution plans, working with JSONB fields, writing efficient migrations, and maintaining data integrity in production.
• Strong Docker background: hands-on experience containerizing Django applications for development, CI/CD, and production; understands image layering, build caching, and multi-stage builds.
• AWS-savvy developer: practical experience deploying and maintaining Django apps on ECS (Fargate), RDS (PostgreSQL), S3, CloudWatch, and related services; familiarity with CDK or CloudFormation stacks preferred.
• Experienced in building secure, maintainable, and observable backends using infrastructure-as-code and best practices for IAM roles, networking, and environment configuration.
• Writes production-grade, tested, and performance-profiled code, capable of diagnosing issues at the ORM, database, or container level.
• Experience with every step of a product's lifecycle; from architecture to ensuring quality during the build and delivery process and maintaining stability thereafter.
• Production experience with high-volume systems with thousands of concurrent sessions
• Experience “dogfooding” your own work with QA/QC focus

About the Company

Senior Back-End Developer Location: Remote in Canada (100%)

A glimpse into who we are

People. One word that connects everything we do here at Showcare, both internally and externally. As a diverse group of individuals, we celebrate our differences and welcome fresh perspectives. We strive to provide each team member with an environment where they can discover and nurture their strengths and passions; after all, that’s where the shift from a job to a calling begins!

Our Showteam is a tight-knit tribe who always supports one another, no matter what. Our strength comes from our ability to collaborate and grow as a team. From client interactions to internal collaboration, we strive to build trusting relationships.

The services we provide include our virtual and hybrid event platform and solutions, registration & housing services, exhibitor lead management, and session tracking & evaluation services, all ingredients in a fantastic event recipe.

Our WHY

We recently took the time to examine what our superpowers are as a team and WHY we do what we do. By developing a statement that resonates with us and the people who know us best, we can always refer to it to ensure that our actions are true to our brand. As Simon Sinek says in his book, Start with Why (which we’d highly recommend!), “People don’t buy what you do it, they buy why you do it.”

So, what’s our WHY?

To care wholeheartedly so that together we never stop growing.

As our president Amilie Parent explains, “We are committed to caring about one another, the work we do and the relationships we build with our clients, partners, and event participants. It’s this level of care that ensures we continue to grow together. This is why our Showcarians feel inspired to bring their best to work every day. Our goal is to push ourselves and our community forward, challenge the status quo, and reach new heights. As an organization, we want to contribute positively to the world. This may seem like a lofty goal, but we strongly believe in the butterfly effect!”

Our HOWs

Instead of core values, we developed HOWs—behaviors we naturally embody when we’re at our best. These are our guiding light that keep us on track to ensure our people, ideas, and actions are in harmony. They are the actions we take that lead to us fulfilling our WHY:

Be there for one another: Have a collaborative mindset and always be ready to support and lend a hand to others.

Help others evolve: Be generous with others and contribute to their personal and professional growth.

Be adaptable and resilient: Stay open to change and willing to adjust your path in order to overcome obstacles.

Bring your best, always: Bring your best skills and strengths to everything you do.

Be authentic: Embrace who you are and what you stand for and share your unique perspective.

Do what's right: Be honest, act with integrity and treat others with respect and fairness.

What our clients love about us is the personal approach we take in supporting and guiding them on their journey to create the best possible version of their event. We proudly become an extension of their team, always keeping their best interests at heart. In doing so, together we create the optimal experience for participants at all stages of an event lifecycle.

Did you just yell out “YES! This sounds like a great place to work!”? Are you looking for a team who will support your goals and help you grow? Is bringing people together your passion? If so, we look forward to learning more about you. Who knows, maybe you’ll be joining us at our next team Coffee Chat!

Contact Info

• Contact: JS Villeneuve
• E-mail contact: jsvilleneuve@showcare.com
• Web: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4333406578/