Backend Developer

Founded in 2017, TripArc is a $750 million privately held company powers the top Travel Agencies and Tour Operators in North America. Our expansive and growing network empowers seamless access to a comprehensive range of travel options and services globally with over $750 million transactions annually - all at the industry’s best rates.

As an industry leader in technology, purchasing, finance, HR and marketing, we know how to deliver solutions to travel professionals in the most effective way possible. With deep experience in partnering with two leading brands in the luxury travel space – Kensington Tours and Travel Edge –TripArc has real insight into the needs of tour operators and travel agencies today.

TripArc's goals are simple. To make our network of over 1400 travel entities more profitable, efficient and help them create truly unique travel for their clients.

After almost a decade with us our Backend Developer is taking on a new challenge. We're left with a new challenge of our own, to find someone who can step in and replace the work he did supporting our TMT, ADX and digital team.  Working closely with these Agile development teams as well as with our operations support group, the successful candidate will play a key role in maintaining the stability and performance of our applications serving travel agents, tour operators and suppliers around the globe and contribute to security and recovery planning.

We're looking for someone who can ensure the rollout of new products run smoothly by confirming data flow, data management and performance parameters are optimized.  They'll be responsible for helping to keep the development teams from getting too "creative" and ensuring applications work in practical terms. One of the key objectives of this role is to develop and maintain API integrations, server-side logic, and databases, ensuring high responsiveness and performance for front-end requirements.

As a shared resource we’re looking for a collaborative team player and who can balance the workload of jumping into a variety of technology decisions and architecture challenges on different projects and keep an eye on how they might impact each other and future development. You will work as part of a group that is known for going out of their way to help each other solve problems across functional and organizational lines.

Responsibilities:

• Practice agile, test-driven development
• Collaborate with front-end and full stack developers on different teams to integrate user-facing elements with server-side logic
• Gather and address technical and design requirements
• Troubleshoot and debug applications and production issues
• Work with team members to collaboratively define the roadmap for features and tools
• Communicate with the team through our productivity tools (Slack, Jira, GitHub, etc.)
• Contribute to functional specifications, design documents, and architecture diagrams
• Analyze query performance and perform index tuning
• Maintain databases performance, backup-restore policies, database security management for users and applications
• On demand reports and data extracts production for analysts and finance
• SQL development using best practices and mentoring
• Apply and develop policies for database management and Access

• University Degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science or a related subject.
• 5+ years of development experience with a focus on data design, and scaled architectures
• Experience working on high-traffic websites and databases, leveraging techniques to enable performance availability, security, and monitoring
• Ability to deliver non-relational data stores when appropriate
• Ability to conceptualize a technical solution and relay it to team members and stakeholders.
• Expert level Microsoft database development
• Extensive knowledge of SQL Azure, SQL Server, and data analysis with expertise in stored procedures, functions, queries, views, and triggers
• Exposure to a variety of Microsoft products including Azure Blog/Table storage, DocumentDB, SQL Azure, Microsoft PowerBI, and Azure Data Factory
• Knowledgeable in SQL tools like SSRS & SSIS
• Strong experience with XML-based data design, and solid experience with ETL applications
• Hands on experience and interest in working with technologies like C# and .Net
• Familiarity with Source code management and delivery platforms like GitHub, Azure Dev Ops, and JIRA in a distributed team environment
• Knowledge of Interbase DB is a plus        

Our Stack

We build our software on the Microsoft stack. Our web-based platforms utilize modern JavaScript frameworks such as Blazor, Angular (mostly) and React (legacy) over a Microsoft .NET Core MVC application base. We implement RESTful WebAPIs to interact with our relational database systems (such as SQL Server) using the Entity Framework. Additionally, our custom-built APIs also reach into our CMS and caching middleware.  Other technologies we work with include SOLR, Redis, RabbitMQ, Kubernetes, MongoDB, Couchbase, Docker, Cloudinary, GraphQL, Ingenico, AJAX, HTML5 and Bootstrap. We use the VS 2019 Pro IDE for development.

Cultural Fit:

• Thrives working in a technology and KPI-driven organization.
• Able to thrive in an entrepreneurial environment with ambiguity.
• Highly functional in a fast paced, constantly changing workplace - building plans through iterations from learning on what’s working and not working.
• Low ego and a team player.  
• Has the ability to build trust and work through conflict.

We know that our success is dependent on the people who join our team, which is why we recruit the best. Our team is made up of owners; people who are smart, low ego, and who are accountable for their results.  We all play a part in the success of the company and are proud of what we do.

NOTE:  This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive. Employee may perform other related duties to meet the ongoing needs of the organization.

We thank all candidates for their interest however only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

We are committed to providing employment accommodation in accordance with the Ontario Human Rights Code and the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act. If you require accommodation due to a disability at any stage of our hiring process, please advise us when completing your application.