Dig Insights is a tech-enabled research company that helps our clients - global consumer brands - move beyond consumer-centric to decision-centric. Our clients can then go to market with innovations that shift consumer decisions in their favor.

Our work is supported by the technologies that we leverage and create. This includes Upsiide, our proprietary innovation insights platform. Upsiide is a SaaS platform that reinvents how enterprise companies screen, optimize, and build a business case for innovation.

Our clients span verticals including FMCG, QSR, retail, technology, financial services, and telecommunications. Our work is led by a team of over 250 strategists, insights leaders and data scientists. We work for a global client base out of offices in Toronto, Chicago, and London.

Our success is due to our strong commitment to our clients, and the creativity and dedication of our entire team. Since the beginning, we have been focused on building the smartest consumer insights company and that means hiring people who are bright, creative, resourceful, and kind. People who succeed at Dig are curious, question established norms and are passionate about helping our clients to move their businesses forward. If you want to join a team that takes themselves just seriously enough to produce great work, we’d love to welcome you.

As we continue to grow, both geographically and in our expertise, we are looking for people who want to join a high-growth and highly collaborative company.

Senior Backend Engineer – About this role

Senior Backend Engineer at Upsiide are true masters of the craft. They are tasked with working on some of our most important technical challenges and often leading an area of a feature or initiative. They also spend a portion of their time on code reviews, pair programming, and generally ensuring best practices are being implemented.

Senior Backend Engineer are active mentors and love helping junior members of the team grow and develop. In the back of their mind is always the security, performance, and scalability of the product. Working with the whole team to make that a reality.

Your primary responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

• Work closely with design, DevOps, and QA to develop innovative server-side architecture.
• Work closely with tech leadership to constantly move product forward.
• Work with junior members of the team to share your experience and help them grow.
• Participate in daily scrums, identifying challenges, foreseeing issues, and highlighting wins.
• Work within company standards for testing and documentation.
• Being fearless in having your own ideas and advocating for them.

Experience, Skills and Requirements:

• 4+ years’ experience (or equivalent) working in a back end or full stack environment.
• Experience with backend JS/TS frameworks (we use Node/Express).
• Experience creating scalable data structures in SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Experience improving database queries and optimizing tables/indexes.
• Experience building RESTful services and APIs.
• Solid coding fundamentals, proper styling, commenting, and comfortable with conducting peer code review.
• Familiar with continuous integration and deployment.
• Knowledge of OOP, Functional Programming, DRY, and MVC principles.
• Experience with version control, git flow model.
• Experience with serverless and containers.
• Willing and able to work within a fast-paced dynamic environment.
• Ability to work within and meet tight deadlines.
• Demonstrated work ethic, integrity, and professional conduct.
• Ability to work independently and with a team.

Work Perks:

• Hybrid working policy which gives the flexibility to employees to work remotely or in one of our office locations.
• Unlimited vacation policy.
• Reimbursement for health and wellness classes/memberships, and continuous learning.
• Medical Insurance.
• In-person and virtual social events such as poker night, paint night, trivia night and more!

To find out more about us visit us at www.diginsights.com & www.upsiide.com

Our culture is built on 5 core values: Energy, Excellence, Evolution, Equality and Empathy. We believe that our success is dependent on the diverse talents, skills, and ideas of its staff. We are committed to creating an inclusive work environment and encourage applications from all qualified candidates including those in the BIPOC and LGBTQ communities, and from people with disabilities.

We thank you for your interest in Dig Insights, however, only candidates who are chosen for an interview will be contacted.