Job Description
About the company
Our client is a manufacturing company.
The role
Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Build and maintain full-stack web software used in a production environment, keeping existing applications reliable while shipping new tools. Spend part of each week with shop-floor staff to understand their problems and check that what you build works in practice. Take responsibility for the uptime of the web platform when issues arise.
What you'll do
- Maintain and extend a customer-facing web application and ship new features.
- Build internal software that speeds up production workflows.
- Spend regular time on the shop floor gathering feedback from machinists and mechanical engineers.
- Define and solve operational problems without a complete written specification.
- Test finished tools with the people who use them and refine them based on their feedback.
- Keep the web platform running, including restoring service quickly when it goes down.
Requirements
What we're looking for
- Roughly one to three years of professional experience building browser and server software, with recent graduates welcome.
- Experience shipping rough prototypes to users and iterating on their feedback.
- Working knowledge of Node.js.
- Willingness to be on call and take ownership of production uptime.
- A sincere desire to learn how goods are made on the plant floor.
- Humility toward the expertise of skilled tradespeople.
Bonus points
- Co-op or internship experience.
- Prior work pairing code with hardware or mechanical equipment.
- Hobby hardware or electronics projects.
- Robotics competition experience.
Benefits
Compensation and benefits
- Base salary: $150,000 to $200,000
- Equity
- Medical coverage
- Dental coverage
- Mental health coverage
Location and work model
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- On-site, fully in person
- Full-time
