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Apex Systems is a global IT services provider, and our staffing practice has an opening in the Online Retail space for a Senior Software Engineer with 5+ years experience in API integration, SQL and Ruby on Rails to place at our client. Duration: 6 months rolling, strong chance of extensions Office Location: Toronto - Hybrid - Once a week About our Client Our Client is the North American leader in online grocery and one of the fastest-growing companies in e-commerce. Our Clients same-day delivery and pickup services bring fresh groceries and everyday essentials to busy people and families across the U.S. and Canada in as fast as an hour. Since its founding, Our Client has become an essential service for millions of families, while also serving as an immediate, flexible earnings opportunity for hundreds of thousands of shoppers across North America. The company partners with more than 350 retailers and delivers from more than 25,000 stores across more than 5,500 cities in North America. Today, Our Client is accessible to more than 85% of households in the U.S. and more than 70% of households in Canada. From a technology point of view, the platform is complex, rapidly scaling and processing millions of transactions in real-time all of the time. The technology coupled with operational expertise enables Our Client to deliver fresh groceries in as little as an hour. This is a difficult problem to master and they are making it happen. Every day, they solve incredibly hard problems to create an experience for their customers that is absolutely magical. Skills: Ruby on Rails, SQL, GoLang, NodeJS, React and Elasticsearch. About Back End at Our Client The backend systems power the clients used by millions of customers every year to buy their groceries online. These systems must also support tight integration with the largest retailers in the US and Canada. Backend engineering at Our Client provides the opportunity to work on challenging scaling solutions while also designing the features that will define our industry. You''ll have the opportunity to work with an Elasticsearch cluster serving millions of requests per day, a unique order lifecycle system that processes thousands of order per hour, and a recovery system capable of rebuilding the entire platform from scratch. Our Clients applications run on Ruby on Rails. They use Postgres, Elasticsearch, and Cassandra as datastores. Memcached and Redis for caching. Kinesis for stream processing. Sidekiq for job processing. As they grow to serve more customers and deepen their relationships with retail partners they are constantly given new opportunities to solve fascinating and rewarding challenges. Responsibilities You will be part of a small team, with a large amount of ownership and autonomy for managing things directly. You will work closely with product managers, other teams, and both internal and external stakeholders, owning a large part of the process from problem understanding to shipping the solution. You will ship high-quality, scalable and robust solutions with a sense of urgency. You will have the freedom to suggest and drive organization-wide initiatives. Requirements Self-motivation and enjoyment for a startup environment A strong sense of ownership Strong knowledge of common back-end Web technologies (such as Ruby on Rails, GoLang, NodeJS, React etc.) in a production environment An ability to balance a sense of urgency with shipping high quality and pragmatic solutions Experience working with a large codebase on a cross functional team. Strong knowledge of SQL 5+ years Ruby on Rails API integration Integrate with different retailers Mostly REST sometimes SOAP at times GraphQL Seniority level Seniority level Mid-Senior level Employment type Employment type Contract Job function Job function Information Technology Industries IT Services and IT Consulting and Retail Referrals increase your chances of interviewing at Apex Systems by 2x Sign in to set job alerts for Software Engineer roles. Software Engineer, Backend (All Levels / All Teams) Software Engineer I, Entry Level (Fall 2024-Spring 2025) - Toronto Full Stack Software Engineer I, Analytics Platform Software Developer Full Stack (Junior) 9063-1115 Frontend Software Engineer (Remote - Canada) Were unlocking community knowledge in a new way. Experts add insights directly into each article, started with the help of AI. #J-18808-Ljbffr