Software Developer - DevOps Team

Job Description

Kira is a powerful machine learning system that identifies, extracts, and analyzes text in your contracts and other documents. Our software is intuitive and easy-to-use to uncover critical information for some of the largest law firms, professional services and corporate companies in the world. We are building a platform that is changing the way work is being done, have fun doing it, and are always looking for talented people to join our team. We strive to constantly learn, question the crowd, push the boundaries of existing technology, and solve difficult problems.

We are expanding our DevOps Team that focuses presently on our build & deployment process, improving internal tooling and Kubernetes. This includes working with our Development, Quality Engineering and Systems Teams on tasks that will lead to greater internal efficiency and effectiveness in serving our clients.

We are looking for a candidate with software development experience to work very closely with our developers. Therefore this role is ideal for a Software Developer with some DevOps exposure and desire to transition into DevOps or for a current DevOps Specialist with a solid software engineering background.

In our DevOps team you will also need a drive to automate the world — once we understand how to do something, and why we do something, our goal is to ensure we capture that into automated processes and Infrastructure as Code.

We are based in downtown Toronto and partial or full remote work is possible.

What You Will Be Doing

• Working closely with developers on building software, maintaining the Continuous Integration pipeline, and tooling.
• Automating existing tasks, and improving existing automation using software best practices.
• Supporting Development and Quality Assurance environments.
• Supporting and improving our application infrastructure in the cloud.
• Creating new technical initiatives that can affect the whole engineering organization; we are driven by Request for Comments (RFC) proposals.

What You Bring

• Fluency with several programming languages, with “extra points” for Clojure (or other functional languages), Python, and Go.
• Experience coding in Java, building Java applications and JVM on Linux.
• Advanced professional experience working with Docker.
• Familiarity with DevOps tools and concepts like CI/CD (Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment).
• Familiarity with AWS (especially EC2, VPCs, S3, CloudFormation) is a bonus.
• Fluency in scripting for automating tasks (especially Python and Ansible) is a bonus.
• Kubernetes experience in production is a bonus.
• Experience with SQL and RDBMSs (especially PostgreSQL) is a bonus.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience.
• Personal technical projects are a bonus, especially Open Source ones.
• Team work, curiosity, excellent communication, problem-solving skills.

Why Join Kira Systems?

• Team . Our team is filled with smart, curious, independent, self-motivated, and nice people. Together, we have a happy and fun team culture.
• Personal Development. We work on challenging problems. It’s hard, in a good way.
• Technology and Design . Machine learning is driving a new industrial revolution, and it’s terrific to work closely with this impactful technology. Moreover, we care about great design and great customer experience.
• We are scaling. So there are lots to still discover and develop - which makes for a great learning environment where you can build experiences and lots of opportunities for you to dig in.
• We are award-winning! We've recently been named one of Canada's Best Workplaces for Inclusion by Great Place to Work Canada and one of Canada's Most Admired Corporate Cultures by Waterstone.
• Lots of benefits and perks. We offer flexible vacation, excellent medical coverage, personal budget for professional development, parental leave, retirement savings program, budget towards your home office equipment and many more.

Security is critical for this team, and it is a requirement that all finalist candidates pass background checks.

Kira Systems believes that at the foundation of our success are the people who work here. We are an equal opportunity employer and believe our diversity is a driver of success at our company. Any race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation or identity, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status are welcome here. Accommodations are available upon request for all aspects of the selection process.