Change Heroes is a tech company, with a simple mission: to build the world’s largest community of people taking action through giving.

The only reason Change Heroes exists is to do social good.

As the Senior Back End Web Developer at Change Heroes, you’ll join our amazing team of people committed to impacting the world in a big way. You’ll be responsible for working with the product owner and development team to architect, implement, and ship new product features.

This role is on-site out of our Vancouver office, though we do believe in flex time for when you need to work at home and working remotely is an option.

Responsibilities

-Work with the product owner and the development team to determine requirements and architect solutions -Design and implement solutions using the latest web and database technologies -Build robust API and database components using Nodejs & Grails -Set realistic developer time estimations and complete them on time. -Write exceptional code that is simple and well tested. -Troubleshoot and debug issues in the live environment using logs, console dumps, etc -Ship delightful and exceptional features on a bi-weekly basis -Create massive impact on a global scale

Requirements / Qualifications

• Experience with Nodejs & Grails -A solid understanding of client/server technologies and REST based architecture -Proven experience building production-grade REST APIs that are robust and maintainable -Experience creating and deploying solutions on cloud-based environments (Heroku, AWS, etc) -Familiar with the Agile development process (Scrum, user stories, etc) -Experience with version control systems such as Git -Strong relational databases skills (design, reporting) using MySQL/RDS or similar -Previous experience with integrating 3rd party APIs such as Stripe, SalesForce, Twilio, etc. -The ability to pick up new technologies quickly and move wherever in the stack help is needed -A link to your GitHub (or similar) showing samples of your work

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with Angular. JS or other front end frameworks
• Familiarity with Continuous Integration and Deployment
• Experience with AWS (S3, EC2, RDS, CloudFront, etc)
• Experience with mobile platforms (iOS, Android, Cordova)

Benefits

• Work at a company where you’ll be making a positive social impact on the world every single day, while having fun doing it – ping pong table, beer keg, arcade games, and a young and super talented team.
• A salary that is on par with other startups in the social enterprise space.
• Above-average health & dental benefits.
• A flexible, results-based work environment.