Senior & Intermediate Developers (Remote)

Sparrow’s a real silicon-valley funded product company based in Alberta. We’re looking for some amazing senior andintermediate software developers (Product Developers) to join our product team and help us take our platform to the next level.

Every day, Sparrow helps our customers get the right information to the right employees across many distribution channels. Connected and informed employees are more productive, more engaged and happier. We believe everyone should feel that way.

At Sparrow, we are a passionate tribe with interests that range from anime to Star Trek to Dungeons and Dragons to food, good code, photography, reading… hmm, we may be a bit nerdy, but we don’t apologize for it. Our culture is centered around a few key ideas: health & family first, no blame – we’re one team – so how can we help and being the mentors, we wish we’d had earlier in our careers.

The type of people we’re looking for are the type who enjoy owning things, who love learning from others and sharing what they know, and who are highly adaptable. Being a small start-up, there’s lots of opportunity to grow and try things out.

Important - We cannot sponsor visas at this time. Therefore you must be a Canadian Citizen or be a permanent resident, or have your work status otherwise resolved, in order to apply.

AND PLEASE make sure to submit the cover letter mentioned at the very end.

Our Product team is GROWING and we need more people helping us turn amazing ideas into delightful user experiences that transform the lives of our customers.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and development of professional quality features and tests to ensure code works right and fails right (Test-Driven Dev)
• Responsible for Pull Request review and participation
• Adding to the team knowledge, culture, and having a positive effect on morale
• Fixing bugs and helping customers when the need arises
• Provide expert input and advice in relation to technical design, standards, and best practices.
• Identify project risks and issues. Provide options and risk mitigation/management recommendations to the client and project management.
• Assist with developing project plans, work plans, schedules, and estimates pertaining to development, solution deployment, and service delivery

Significant experience (3+ years minimum) with at least one of the following technology areas:

• React and Web Application development
• Microsoft Teams tab SaaS development
• SharePoint SPFX WebPart development that connect to backend services
• Azure data (CosmosDB, DataFactory, SQL Server)
• Azure backend (Azure B2C, Event Hubs, Blob Storage, Cognitive Services)
• Google Suite workspace add-ons

Significant experience with our standard development environment and platform:

• Visual Studio w/Azure DevOps (C#, .NET, Typescript)

Attributes

• Ability to give and take feedback well
• Passion for products and start-ups
• A Quality-centric Mindset
• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to bring some order to some chaos
• Strong team skills

Approximate years of experience:

• Intermediate Product Developers generally have 3-5 years of depth experience in at least one technology area mentioned below.
• Senior Product Developers generally have 6-8 years of depth experience in at least one area, or 3-5 in multiple.

Education Requirement

Ideally, you have a computer science or software engineering or related degree, but we know degrees don’t mean everything. Having some formal knowledge, though, does help when it comes to understanding algorithmic analysis, Big O bounding, the benefits and drawbacks of non-sql vs sql data storage, how to assess performance, and troubleshoot complex issues.

What can Sparrow offer you?

• A fantastic place to work and a leadership team that believes that leaders are there in service to their teams.
• An unbelievable team who are some of the nicest and most committed professionals you’ll ever meet.
• A competitive salary
• Lots of growth opportunity from both a depth and breadth perspective as we grow.
• Group benefits because we believe strongly in taking care of health and family
• Stock options that when we became that billion-dollar unicorn start-up will be worth MAD MONEY

BEFORE YOU APPLY, please make sure to include a cover letter and tell us something about yourself (this also tells us you read the whole thing, which means you pay attention to detail):

• Was there anything about this posting, or the video, that grabbed you?
• What are 1-3 things you’re hoping to find in your next role?
• Do you have a github repo with some code we can look at to see your style and approach? If so, please provide the link
• What are you passionate about outside of tech? Star Wars? D&D? Biking? Singing? Hiking? Collecting Meteors.

Remember, there is no perfect candidate and all too often we can see a set of things we don’t have and miss all the great things we do. If you feel you’re a potential great fit and feel we might need some convincing, put it in the cover letter and make sure your resume highlights it. We’re going to read it all.

We are growing fast, so if you don’t feel that this is a fit for you right now, keep an eye on us. More is coming