Senior Software Developer, Full Stack (React, Node)

What if everyone got on the same page? This is something we ask ourselves everyday at Bananatag.

We believe great communication is at the heart of every business, and we’re here to help companies make meaningful internal communication easy. Because when employees are informed and engaged, they’re happier and they do better work.

We’re certain that at Bananatag you’ll be able to have impact and create an inspiring career.

Bananatag is an employee communication platform that allows users to save time by design, schedule and evaluate company-wide messaging on email, Slack and MS Teams, all from a single tool.

Our industry-leading email designer helps teams to collaborate in real-time on branded, engaging content, then explore analytics to understand the impact their messages are having.

It’s an exciting time at Bananatag as we merge with Staffbase, a global employee app and intranet company with offices across Germany, Amsterdam, London and New York, adding to our offices in Vancouver and Kelowna, BC. Together, our platforms come together to offer the world’s first all-in-one multi-channel solution for employee communication.

• About us
• Try our email designer live
• See how we celebrate while remote
• Bananatag is official a Great Place to Work

Requirements

Are you our next Senior Full Stack Software Developer? We’re looking for someone to have roughly 5+ years of web development experience to join one of our amazing Product teams.

• Banana Splits Team: Help us develop our industry-leading drag-and-drop Content Designer that enables real-time collaboration on internal communications like email and MS Teams.
• Bananas in Pajamas Team: Help our customers access their contacts and lists from employee directories and HRIS, like AAD and Workday, so that they can use existing lists or build their own custom distribution lists using contact attributes to target the right audience for their internal communications.

This is a unique opportunity to join a really sweet tech company, you can scope us out on Instagram, Glassdoor, and Indeed. We aren’t perfect, but we’re proud of who we are!

In addition to programming, you’ll provide mentorship and insights as well as facilitate communication across teams. You’ll offer clarity, helping the team to see the bigger picture while staying focused on goals, and empowering team members while keeping each other accountable.

Bananatag has a positive, diverse, and evolving culture—we look for people who are curious, inventive, and work to be a little better every single day. In our work together, we take ownership, stay focused on growth and try to be good humans.

If this sounds like a good fit for you, skim the rest and apply now.

• Project planning and collaborating across teams to evaluate feature feasibility and project timelines by identifying priorities, rabbit holes, and unclear interdependencies
• Understanding and translating business objectives into technical requirements while considering overall strategies
• Providing clarity by helping team members to see the overall strategy and current state, and steering projects to completion in terms of quality, performance, reliability, and security
• Designing systems architecture, including infrastructure that enables continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD)
• Writing clean, well organized code while considering reusability, performance, quality, and security
• Offering mentorship by asking clarifying questions and giving constructive feedback through pull requests and team discussions while taking feedback gracefully
• Investigating and bringing opportunities across teams by identifying root causes, considering tradeoffs, and making logical recommendations
• Advocating and participating in writing abundant tests to bring code coverage to an acceptable standard
• Actively learning and seeking out ways to continuously improve

Must Have:

• Proficient in JavaScript (ES2015+) and Typescript
• Proficient in the Node environment and NPM
• A sound foundation in frontend development using a Javascript framework (eg. React/Redux, Vue, Angular), Webpack and a CSS preprocessor (eg. Sass), and understanding of best practices including design systems
• A sound foundation in JavaScript testing frameworks (eg. Mocha and Test Cafe)
• Experience with SQL and noSQL database design
• Experience with AWS (eg. RDS, ECS, Lambda, and Dynamo) and cloud native application development (eg. Node.js microservices with Fargate and CI/CD)
• Proven understanding of infrastructure as code to build processes and tools for infrastructure provisioning using Terraform

Nice to Have:

• Experience with building content creation tools
• Experience with accessibility and has an eye for UI/UX

Benefits

• Competitive salaries with regular compensation reviews
• Comprehensive extended benefits package (health, dental, and vision) from day one
• A progressive employee assistance program through Telus Health MyCare with unlimited telemedical access to local doctors, therapists, and dietitians in Canada
• Group Registered Savings Plan program (RRSP)
• 4 weeks of vacation for everyone
• 10 paid wellness days to use for your physical and mental health / wellbeing
• We are a ‘remote first’ workplace now, but have nice offices in Kelowna & Vancouver if that's your thing – but we require you to be eligible to work in Canada

• We invest generously in professional development for you lifelong learners.
• Authority, accountability, and autonomy to succeed at your own pace. A team that embraces knowledge sharing and wearing different hats. There are no lordships and fiefdoms here.
• We’re serious about diversity, equity, inclusion, and representation. We’ve created a task force to make sure that we’re not just talking the talk, but also walking the walk. Our stance is below.
• We surprise and delight our employees from time-to-time, you’ll just have to trust us. ;)

Did you know there are over 1,000 different kinds of bananas out there? Each one brings something unique to the table, just like our people. We love that we’re all different; however, we have to admit that not all have been treated equitably in the past. Bananatag promises that however you identify you will always have equitable access and opportunity to succeed here.

We’ve taken a public pledge to eradicate pay gaps based on race, gender, age, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, and other marginalized groups and categories. We review our pay equity bi-annually to make sure we don’t fall off track. We’re committed to ensuring a $1 to $1 ratio in equitable compensation among all of our people.