Cision employs the brightest, most passionate people in the tech industry. We’d love for you to join our growing team! We invest in our people through training and professional development while supporting you along the way—all so you can meet your career goals. To us, the most important measure of our success is yours.
The Cision Comms Cloud, and the Cision Comms Cloud NextGen are media monitoring tools that enable communications teams to plan and monitor their PR and earned media activities. Cision's product collect media content from print, online, radio, television and social media in addition to profiles of journalists and influencers to inform teams about how to connect with journalists and understand the brand impacts that PR activities hold.
Cision has an ethos of encouraging autonomy, ambition, boldness and experimentation. We value open people who take initiative and aren’t afraid to fail, learn from mistakes, adjust, and try to get better at what they do every day.
As a Cision Backend Engineer, you will help build, scale and improve the backend of a fast-growing Customer Experience platform. You will aid us in building a real time, scalable, stable platform serving thousands of clients in a reliable and performant manner. You will be using new technologies, to solve hard problems in a friendly and encouraging work environment. You will also be encouraged to share your experience and knowledge, sparring with your colleagues to grow together!
Your Colleagues
You will be joining the Ottawa office where Cision already has several backend teams, and also working with seasoned teams located in Canada, Germany and the US. Your colleagues are going to be experience at building high volume, stable, supportable enterprise software systems. They are also excited to help onboard and learn alongside new people and teams.
What You'll Do
- Develop quality microservice solutions with cutting edge technologies together with dedicated marksmen to help fulfilling our different business goals
- Define accurate domain models
- Store data efficiently in a matching storage engine
- Build highly scalable, high volume data processing pipelines with a DevOps mindset
- Help design, implement and improve our services while helping us adopt best practices
- Write clean, self testing, well documented code
- Be mindful of the business - by communicating with your colleagues and management, help us ensure that we’re building the right thing at the right time
What You Have
- Minimum 2-3 years hands-on experience on a production system as developer
- Good knowledge of Java, we are using Java 21 Reactor library
- Good knowledge of Spring ecosystem
- Experience with relational and NoSQL databases
- Experience with index engine like Elasticsearch
- Good knowledge of RESTful APIs, their design and implementation
- Experience with messaging technologies, Kafka is a plus, we use it a lot
- Experience with building and/or running large-scale applications on a PaaS/SaaS cloud, preferably GCP
- Knowledge of Docker and containerization, Kubernetes a big plus
- English language fluency
What We Can Offer
- An open and informal work environment.
- Flexible working hours: work-life balance is essential for us.
- High level of responsibility & autonomy.
- Helpful colleagues and motivating working culture
- Work with a highly skilled team - You can learn a lot here
- Internal tech talks, skills-building resources and technical people leads who help you achieve mastery
- Newest technologies, room for experimentation
