Are you a Software Engineer looking for a noble mission? How does becoming part of the fastest growing ed-tech firm sound?

I'm almost coming to my 6 month anniversary at Applyboard and over this time, I've heard many amazing announcements on how we are continuing our lightspeed growth globally as we continue on our mission to educate the world and simplify the application process for any student who dreams of studying abroad. My role with Applyboard is help build our engineering teams to take us to the next level and I am looking for great technical talent (specifically software engineers) who resonate with our mission!

ApplyBoard is an online platform that empowers students around the world to access the best education. Founded in 2015, ApplyBoard has grown to become the world’s largest online platform for international student recruitment, assisting more than 120,000 students with their educational journey. By connecting international students, recruitment partners, and educational institutions, we simplify the study abroad search, application, and acceptance process through our platform and services. To date, we have built partnerships with 1,200+ educational institutions across Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia, and work with 4,000+ recruitment partners around the world.

ApplyBoard ranked 3 on LinkedIn’s 2020 Top Startups List in Canada and was named the fastest-growing technology company in Canada by Deloitte, ranking #1 on the 2019 Technology Fast 50? list. 

In May 2020, the company raised C$100M Series C on a C$2B valuation, reaching a ‘unicorn’ valuation, and in September 2020, announced a C$70M Series C extension. With this funding, we are heavily investing in our technology, growing our team, and serving more customers.

Our Team

Our team of over 600 ApplyBoardians and growing, is just as diverse as the customers we support. Comprised of 27 nationalities, 53 languages spoken, and 50/50 gender parity, diversity is fostered and celebrated. ApplyBoard is headquartered in Kitchener, ON Canada, with representatives in 20 countries including India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, Vietnam, the Philippines, the United Kingdom, Mexico, Brazil, and China. While a large part of our engineering team sits in Kitchener, we are also building our presence in Toronto and plan on opening a satellite office in Toronto in the near future.

The Role

We are looking for experienced and creative Sr. Full-Stack Engineers to join our growing Engineering Team and take our company and platform to the next level!

• The Sr. Full-Stack Software Engineer will join our growing Engineering Team in order to design and develop UX/UI and backend services to be used by our clients and partners running in the cloud and on-premise. They will participate in developing strategy, architecture and frameworks for the organization. 
• This role will have great communication skills working in close collaboration with DevOps and business stakeholders to provide application solutions. They will evaluate the product owner's backlog of requirements to design and develop business solutions using Agile methodology. This role requires deep knowledge and experience in API and UX/UI best practices to select the most appropriate design, process and method to meet the enterprise and business needs.

You will stand out to us if you:

• Apply agile development principles to build organized and versatile, high quality code and can understand and implement the concepts of Test/Behavior Driven Development
• Support, fix and update existing applications to improve efficiency and support the growth of extensive software systems while avoiding cumbersome solutions through diligent research, experimentation, and testing.
• Have a passion for innovative technologies like Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka, RabbitMQ and various cloud technologies with a keen desire to ;earn and understand the fundamental concepts of Full-Stack engineering through the use of emerging technologies such as React.js on the front-end and microservices-Restful APIs on the backend.
• Collaborate with other teams in order to successfully use our CI/CD pipeline to increase the velocity of feature deployments and robustness in the deployments
• Feel comfortable using different database technologies like Aurora, RDS, ElasticSearch, MongoDB and MySQL
• Document and test code to ensure the quality of the completed work requirement
• Take ownership for problems and deliver consistently high-quality solutions
• Design enhancements to improve efficiency and streamline the business process as well as the development process.

What a career with Applyboard can offer!

• The opportunity to have an impact on a product that is positively affecting change to thousands of students lives every day
• Working alongside a brilliant and globally diverse team that is the fastest growing in the Waterloo region
• Great compensation and benefits package to keep you healthy and happy!

If you are interested in finding out more, please reach out to me over Linkedin or via email at [email protected]

At ApplyBoard, we understand the value of having a diverse team. That’s why we believe in providing equal opportunity regardless of race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, family status, genetic characteristics, disability, and conviction. Please let us know if you require accommodation during the recruitment process.