Job Type: Full Time - 1 Year Contract

Hours: Mon-Fri, 40 hours/week

This opportunity has the flexibility to work remotely anywhere in Canada.

Perks of joining HomeStars:

All our roles are currently remote.
Office equipment supplied!
Comprehensive benefits package. We want our employees to stay healthy!
Wellness activities to support your mental and physical health and Employee and Family Assistance Program
Home Improvement Credit: All employees receive a yearly credit to use toward a service from HomeStars
December Closure: Our whole team takes a break in the last week of December, every year
Personal Days: 5 extra days off per year, on top of vacation and sick days
Beautiful brick & beam office in the heart of Toronto’s entertainment district

The Opportunity

As a FullStack Developer, you will have the opportunity to help build new exciting products, improve our platform, and work with a highly talented team while living by our engineering values:

Our Engineering Values:

A culture of Continued Learning - Learn and teach, grow yourself and your colleagues at HomeStars
Reduce Operational Costs - Reduce our AWS infra costs and SaaS licensing fees
Operational Resiliency - Optimize how we monitor, maintain, support, and patch our systems
Enhance Developer Experience - Make our development flow easier, simpler and with minimum friction
Pay Technical Debt on time - Maintain, Manage and Minimize Technical Debt. Ultimately, pay Tech debt before due date
Increase the flow - Deliver value faster and with higher quality
Shift Left - Move and help your team to shift left by testing as early as possible

Our stack:

Ruby on Rails
React
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
CircleCI
EC2
S3
Elasticsearch
MySQL
PostgreSQL
Sidekiq
RabbitMQ

Your typical day at HomeStars:

Participating in design charrettes and reviews for new product features
Writing client-side code for our Homeowner and Service Pro dashboards
Build API endpoints for our front end and mobile clients
Build location, authentication, and search services
Ensure our services scale reliably as we continue to grow
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver feature-rich solutions that meet customer needs
Identify areas for improvement and propose innovative solutions to enhance our software development process and practices

Must-have qualifications:

Minimum 2+ years experience with Ruby on Rails
You are proficient in React.js, with a track record of developing web applications using this technology
You have a solid understanding of front-end technologies such as HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript, ensuring an engaging and seamless user experience
You are proficient with RESTful API design principles and have the ability to create and consume APIs
You have substantial experience with RDBMSs like MySQL and PostgreSQL
You have curiosity about how things work
You learn quickly and make steady progress
You communicate effectively with people from different disciplines, like Product and Design
You are aware of industry trends impacting our infrastructure and our build system, including experience in ansible, CircleCI, npm, docker, vagrant and git
You are excited about sharing knowledge with coworkers
You have a keen eye for application performance and code quality
You have experience with functional MiniTest, RSpec or similar test frameworks
You enjoy collaborating on technical projects and planning before executing

Nice-to-Have Qualifications:

You have experience with ES6
Experience with the JSON API Specifications
Experience with Ansible and Docker
Experience with web sockets
Learns and proposes new experiments to help their team collaborate more effectively
Be able to own the technical testing and performance plan for their projects

About HomeStars

HomeStars is Canada’s leading platform connecting homeowners with qualified service professionals for their home improvement needs. Every month, over half a million homeowners visit HomeStars to research and select the best-rated professionals nearby. Check outhomestars.com to learn more!

HomeStars Core Values

Our Core Values are woven into everything we do. They guide how we behave, how we act, and what we will aspire to be. They underpin the culture of HomeStars and act as drivers for impact, personal growth, and collective performance.

Customer Obsessed: When our customers thrive, we thrive. We put their needs first.

Think Big: We think without limits. We believe in the possible.

Embrace Candor: We speak up, listen, and challenge respectfully.

Act Like an Owner: We’re invested, we own our outcomes.

Bias for Action: We take action to accelerate our success. Speed matters.

We’re Stronger Together: Our differences empower us, and our will to win unites us.

HomeStars has recently been recognized as:

Great Place to Work® Certified™

Best Workplaces in Inclusion 2023

Best Workplaces in Technology 2023

Best Workplaces for Mental Wellness 2023

Best Workplace™ with Most Trusted Executive Teams 2023

Best Workplaces™ Managed by Women 2023

Canada's Most Admired Corporate Cultures 2023

We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

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