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Staff Software Engineer

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Overview

Shift4 (NYSE: FOUR) is boldly redefining commerce by simplifying complex payments ecosystems across the world. As the leader in commerce-enabling technology, Shift4 powers billions of transactions annually for hundreds of thousands of businesses in virtually every industry. For more information, visit www.shift4.com.

Staff Software Engineer

Shift4 is expanding globally and building our software development team to assist in designing, developing and deploying Shift4’s Commerce Engine payment solution! This amazing product delivers a modern and integrated payment processing experience at Retail, Restaurant, and Hotel merchants.

The focal point of the solution consists of well-designed and highly functional business apps deployed on custom payment hardware. We have an ambitious product roadmap for this platform and are looking to expand the team with the best and brightest to ensure we continue to drive the industry with our innovative solutions and change the basis of competition.

Responsibilities

  • Translate high-level requirements to actionable tasks and deliverables.
  • Contribute to architecture and design in a multiplatform ecosystem.
  •  Design and build distributed software services for transaction processing.
  •  Produce high quality software that is unit tested, code reviewed, and continuously integrated.
  •  Collaborate with the Quality assurance team in test planning and test coverage.
  •  Collaborate with DevOps and CI/CD in operational visibility, triaging incidents, and deployment planning.
  • A disciplined approach to development, code review, testing, documentation and code structure in a team environment.
  • Actively participate in growing and coaching fellow team members.
  • Understand future business goals from Product Owners and make sure architecture and system design can support those goals.
  • Build proof-of-concepts to validate architectural and design choices and evangelize those technical choices to other teams.
  • Able to understand, diagnose and then solve deep technical and performance issues across the product.
  • Provide development support to resolve any issues with technical systems and applications.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Math, Physics or experience in lieu of a degree may be considered. 
  • 7+ years of Software Engineering experience in Coding, Designing and Developing software.
  • Proficient in C and exposure to Object Oriented languages like C++, Java, Python or Kotlin.
  • Adept in gathering and interpreting requirements, translating requirements into system definitions and solutions and creating detailed documentation.
  • Ability to write modular, maintainable code with unit tests ensuring complete code coverage and adhering to coding standards.
  • Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues in embedded systems to debug and optimize system performance.
  • Experience with Code repository management, code merge and quality checks, continuous integration and automated deployment and management using tools like Jenkins, Git.
  • Experience working in an agile environment and familiarity with Jira, Confluence etc.
  • Excellent communication skills and a quick problem solver.

Preferred Skills:

  • Previous experience in the cards and payments industry is positive but not mandatory.
  • Expertise around Point of Sale, Payment SDKs, and POS hardware experience is a big plus.

 

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