Rise to the challenge
Rise is Canada’s complete people management solution that gives employers everything they need to build loyal and productive teams—all in one place. We collaborate and co-create to build solutions that completely change how companies of all shapes and sizes manage their payroll, scheduling, time tracking, group benefits, recruitment, onboarding, and more.
At Rise, we’re changing how work happens and how people work. We’d love for you to join us and experience the most positive, challenging, and transformative part of your career.
About the role
As a Software Engineer, you’ll work closely with product and design to ship great things to our customers and collaborate with other engineers to deliver on technical initiatives that make us faster, safer, and happier.
The day-to-day
Collaborate with the development team to design, develop, test, and deploy software applications.
Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code following best practices and coding standards.
Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback to team members.
Debug and troubleshoot software issues and implement effective solutions.
Stay up-to-date with the latest software development trends and technologies.
Contribute to the documentation of software components and processes.
Assist in the planning and estimation of project tasks.
About you
3+ years of experience as a software engineer working in complex domains and large products
Experience in systems design and architecture, including domain modeling, distributed systems, database modeling, and REST API
Experienced in both UI & backend development
Comfortable working with relational databases with and without an ORM
Experienced in Shell Scripting
Programming skills in Ruby and Ruby on Rails
Previous experience with TypeScript and React a plus
Kind, empathetic, and pleasant to work with
Passionate about continually learning and developing
Adamant in your commitment to shipping high-quality, well-structured, and maintainable code
Driven and entrepreneurial: we’re a fast-growing, scrappy startup, and we prefer candidates who are experienced working in a fast-paced environment
Willing to roll up your sleeves and do whatever needs to be done to make this a great place to work
Excellent problem-solving and analytical abilities.
Strong communication and teamwork skills.
Knowledge of AWS, Docker, CI/CD, and Atlassian products is a plus.
What Rise offers
Rise is all about creating a positive company culture, both for our clients and our employees. We believe that happiness isn’t the cause of employee engagement, it’s the result.
The base salary for this position is $85,000–$105,000, depending on experience, plus stock options.
We offer a remote work environment. On occasion, we may meet as a team or one-on-one in person.
Rise believes that time off is just as important as time spent working. We offer 3 weeks of paid vacation, flexible personal wellness days, as well as one day off for your birthday and your work anniversary.
We support your growth with a personal $1,000 learning and development budget to take courses, attend conferences, webinars, you name it!
We offer no-wait benefits. This means that starting your first day, you have access to our comprehensive benefits package which includes dental, eye care, and $2,000 in counselling coverage, among many other great health benefits.
At Rise, we care more about where you’re headed, not where you’ve been. We encourage people of all ages, backgrounds, identities, and orientations to apply.