"Employers often ask why you'd be a good fit to work for them. We prefer to begin by showing why we'd be a good fit for you."

 

Reasons why you would want to work at Vivid Theory:

• A fresh start with a young energetic team

• Vibrant work environment

• Develop in the most modern web technologies (React, Nodejs, and front/backend Typescript)

• Creative freedom to make a direct and immediate impact on our code base

• Successfully launched and validated product.

• See your work life being used by hundreds of thousands of customers and consumers.

• Expedited advancement opportunities and ownership potential.

 

You'll be solving big challenges and working with low-latency, large-scale systems in a small, fast-paced, collaborative family-feel environment! In this role, you will help shape the technical direction, and you'll be building tools for a diverse set of problems from server capacity planning and management, service monitoring tooling infrastructure, system inventory, and server provisioning. This is an excellent opportunity for someone looking to move into a leadership role, influencing change and providing solutions across several engineering challenges.

 

Are you:

• Someone who takes ownership and pride in their work makes and delivers on commitments and isn't satisfied with anything less than excellence.

• Has the desire to help define the architecture and strategic roadmap for a product used by hundreds of users, balancing business objectives, end-user needs, and technical feasibility

• An exceptional communicator who will be effective on a team

Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and maintain databases by integrating in-house tools and external sources.

• Work with the development team to create a scalable data architecture.

• Collaborate with development and executive teams to gather and understand data requirements and ensure data accuracy.

• Improve data reliability, efficiency, quality, and data governance processes through innovative strategies.

• Build and test big data ecosystems for scalability.

• Automate repetitive tasks and processes to reduce manual intervention.

• Execute data migrations across databases and servers with accuracy and efficiency.

• Upgrade and replace outdated systems to enhance database performance.

• Validate and test data transformations and verifications used in machine learning models to maintain accuracy.

• Conduct regular database maintenance and monitor its performance.

• Implement disaster recovery techniques to ensure business continuity.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related area of study.

• Strong knowledge of Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) and its interaction with databases (experience with Sequelize is a plus).

• Proficient in SQL, with experience in PostgreSQL being an advantage.

• Familiarity with database level programming languages, such as PL/pgSQL.

• Experience working with relational databases and their performance measurement and testing.

• Knowledge of Microsoft Azure and its related services.

• Experience with ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes.

• Proficiency in using GitHub for version control.

• Knowledge of JavaScript, with experience in TypeScript being a plus.

• Familiarity with Code First Database Migrations and Seeding.

• A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, or a related field.

• Previous experience as a Data Engineer or in a similar role.

• Strong technical skills including experience in data modeling, data mining, and segmentation techniques.

• Hands-on experience with database design and problem-solving.

• Strong attention to detail, critical thinking.

 

Generally speaking, we're looking for someone who is experienced but still early in their career (roughly 2-6 years of experience) and feels ready to take on a large amount of responsibility and growth.

 

If this opportunity sounds like it’s right for you, please apply directly at theviv.co/jobapplication.

 

This position is requesting to be funded by the Government of Canada under the Innovation, Science, Digital Skills, and Economic Development of Canada.