Senior Software Engineer Backend

Tucows Domains is the world’s largest wholesale domain registrar, responsible for maintaining the health, neutrality, and openness of an important—but largely invisible part of the Internet: the domain name system (DNS).

As part of Tucows—one of the world’s largest Internet companies—Tucows Domains has a rich history of helping make the Internet better, operating globally under the Ascio, Enom, Hover and OpenSRS brands.

What's Next at Tucows

We embrace a people-first philosophy that is rooted in respect, trust, and flexibility. We believe that whatever works for our employees is what works best for us. It’s also why the majority of our roles are remote-first, meaning you can work from anywhere you can connect to the Internet! Today, over one thousand people from over 20 countries are part of our team.

If this sounds exciting to you, join the herd!

Senior Software Engineer 

About the Opportunity:

Tucows Domains is looking for a strong engineer to join a team of developers, where your insight will help guide the transformation of a service providing vital communications for millions of users around the world.

About yourself

• You enjoy greenfield software development
• You excel at solving problems at scale for millions of people
• You want to work with innovative technologies
• You want to work with and learn from some of the smartest minds in the industry
• You are preferably located in North America

Job Duties

• Implementing stories and tickets based on user and system requirements
• Writing unit tests
• Contribute to technical design and planning sessions
• Participate in code reviews and ensure that development standards are adhered to
• Balance the need to ship code quickly with the need to make sound technical decisions

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Exposure to multiple programming languages
• Knowledge of GoLang, or willing and able to learn GoLang very quickly
• Knowledge of email-related protocols including SMTP, IMAP, POP, SASL, DKIM, SPF, DMARC is desirable
• Experience writing automated tests
• Experience with Continuous Integration concepts and tools
• Experience delivering highly available and reliable systems
• Experience with AWS is an advantage
• Strong analytical skills
• Strong troubleshooting skills
• Experience working in an agile environment
• Good communication skills, both verbal and written
• Knowledge of domains and DNS is a plus

Qualifications Required

• Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent work experience
• 6+ years professional experience in a software engineering environment

Want to know more about what we stand for? At Tucows we care about protecting the open Internet, narrowing digital divide, and supporting fairness and equality.

We also know that diversity drives innovation. We are committed to inclusion across race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status or disability status. We celebrate multiple approaches and diverse points of view.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request an accommodation.

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