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About Beyond Media and Circuit Virtual Tours
At Beyond Media, we’re helping physical spaces enhance storytelling with a
visual marketing platform called Circuit [https://www.madewithcircuit.com/].
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
- 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 (Git)
- Solid understanding of HTML and CSS fundamentals, awareness of browser
compatibility and responsive styling
- Bonus additional technologies where knowledge is useful: AWS (S3,
CloudFront), Celery, Redis, PostgreSQL, Wagtail, Linux, Stimulus.js,
Geographic Information Systems
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
[https://www.madewithcircuit.com/about-us]
Other Details
Type: Permanent Full-Time
Job Location: HQ is in Markham and the team is in the Toronto area, but the
candidate will be working remotely.
Note: Candidates must have the legal ability to work in Canada
