Development Engineer

As a trusted partner to the world’s leading loyalty programs, Points builds, powers and grows new ways for members to get and use their favorite loyalty currency. 

More than 1 billion loyalty program members touch our products through brands like Hilton, Air Canada, Lyft, British Airways, United Airlines, Air France-KLM, Chase Bank, Etihad Airways, and many more. Our team of 250+ people across 5 global offices works together to build and launch new solutions, solve complex challenges for our partners and create a one-of-a-kind company culture.

Our casual, collaborative environment is where our strong workplace culture begins. Our people are what make us great, so we empower them with the freedom to think big and the resources to make things happen. We communicate directly, lead by example, and make sure our team members know how much they are appreciated. Passion for life and work is important to us, and we want to see it in you, too!

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This role is remote across Canada, but reports into our Toronto office!

Points is looking for a full-time, permanent Backend Development Engineer to join our Loyalty Commerce Platform Software Engineering team.

The LCP Team is a cross-functional, Agile team with backend engineers focused on our Loyalty Commerce Platform — a platform that helps loyalty programs develop custom applications that allow them to engage their members and give them the most value for their program loyalty.

Join an incredibly motivated and collaborative team working across a breadth of technologies with end-to-end visibility and ownership of our tech stack. We take pride in our culture of working, sharing and celebrating together and create a supportive environment where everyone can be their true self at work.

Reporting to the Team Lead, you will join a multidisciplinary team where you will:

• Develop modern backend applications, while also managing the existing codebases
• Assist with the development of new products for very strategic clients, with some of the largest API’s in the loyalty space
• Always want to improve both the developer and user experience through thoughtful design, rigorous testing, and clear documentation
• Collaborate with project managers, relationship managers, product designers, analysts and other stakeholders
• Our teams own the written code from beginning to end. This includes not only writing  great code, but also making sure that the code is well tested, scalable and that we constantly promote engineering best practices.
• We cherish the growth of our team members, and we’d like you to find your own way to continue to grow and add to your skill sets as part of the work here. This means that while we’ll enable and encourage you to grow, you should have the drive to learn.

• Experience building backend applications
• Desire to develop your skills across all levels of the technical stack
• Belief in the importance of teamwork, cooperation, and communication

Technologies we use and teach

• Python
• CouchDB, PostgreSQL
• Docker, Kubernetes
• AWS
• GitLab

The health and safety of Points’ employees, guests and business partners is a very high priority. Our view that maximizing COVID-19 vaccination rates among employees is one very important strategy to lessen the hazard of COVID-19 in our physical workspace. As such, all new Pointsters are required to be fully vaccinated in accordance with their regional guidelines.

Points is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to providing an accessible recruitment process.

We welcome applications from all qualified individuals and are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of gender identity or expression, race, ethnic origin, creed, place of origin, age, sex, marital status, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, and any other category protected by law. Upon request we will provide accommodation for applicants with disabilities.

All your information will be kept confidential.