Job Description

For those who dream of advancing our space in the Universe and on Earth, we'll take you there.

Serving the world from our Canadian home and our global offices, MDA is an international space mission partner and robotics & space operations, satellite systems and geointelligence pioneer with a 50-year story of firsts on and above the Earth. Today, we're leading the charge towards viable Moon colonies, enhanced Earth observation, communication in a hyper-connected world, and more.

We're fueled by a pioneering spirit that carries us beyond. And together we enable highly skilled people to continually push boundaries and tackle big challenges requiring solutions that endure and inspire.

Are you ready to launch the next stage of your career in the new space economy? We would love to hear from you!

We're on the hunt for an Associate Software Engineer on our Geointelligence team at our Richmond, BC office.

Our mission is to turn data into insight. From detecting changes in fragile ecosystems to monitoring northern ice floes and shipping routes, our near-real time data of Earth observation and the environment makes our Geointelligence team a leader in geospatial imagery, ground stations, enterprise geospatial systems and defence programs. As our Associate Software Engineer, you will be using the latest technologies for a diverse and exciting set of satellite ground station activities. We offer a diverse development environment including client-server applications, web-based user interfaces including interaction with web API and web services design, external system interfaces, and automated software build and test systems.

• Learn - while you leverage your past work experience, we will teach you about the unique challenges of the satellite ground station domain and our customers.
• Work - you will join a team within the Satellite Ground Systems group. Your team leader and stakeholders will guide and challenge you with project-based work that is best suited to your skills and experience. The software that you develop remains your responsibility. Immerse yourself, and see your results delivered to end customers and used in real-world, geo-spatial applications.
• Grow - your talents will be rewarded with opportunities for career and personal growth in an organization dedicated to success in a team environment.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Creating engineering solutions that are attractive, cost-effective and have direct impact to our customers.
• Working from requirements and customer interactions to develop or modify complex software applications.
• Planning work, providing effort estimates, driving your work to completion - on time & on budget.
• Designing, coding, testing, debugging and documenting high quality software applications at all levels
• Participating in integration, testing and deployment of software applications at all levels.
• Assisting in troubleshooting problems in development and operational production environments.
• Following established development processes and corporate technical and quality standards.

EXPERIENCE

• A University Degree or Technical Diploma from an accredited institution in computer science, software engineering, or a combination of related education and experience.
• Experience designing and developing microservices with Golang
• Experience integrating back-end microservices with web-based front-end
• Experience with version control (git preferred)
• Familiarity with Agile process
• Team-friendly attitude and a willingness to learn and work on all stages of software development including post-delivery support.
• Ability to quickly learn on the job and leverage your past experiences and knowledge.
• Possess excellent problem-solving, critical thinking skills. Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to solve technical problems within budget and schedule constraints.
• Experience working within a large organization and understand dependencies and stakeholder needs
• Service-oriented architectures
• Cloud environments (AWS preferred)
• RESTful web APIs and endpoints
• JSON, YAML, XML
• Python and other scripting languages
• Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka and related technologies
• Maven, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins or other software build tools/CI processes
• Logging via Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana (ELK)

We're a dream team of purpose-driven, collaborative and passionate people, and we are constantly looking for others to join #TeamMDA to ignite new and innovative approaches to problem-solving that push us forward to improve life on and above Earth. If you're excited to expand our place in space and driven to inspire the next generation, we'll take you there.

We have entered a new era of exploration and development, and MDA welcomes all who yearn to suit up and be part of it. An equal opportunity employer prizing diversity, integrity and collaboration, we are committed to growing MDA's and Canada's leadership in this next golden age.

MDA provides competitive compensation and benefits packages for its employees at all locations. As a team member of MDA, you and your qualified dependents are eligible to participate in a benefit plan that ensures a comprehensive level of protection through competitive health care including; extended healthcare and flexible drug plans, dental and vision benefits, disability income protection, life insurance, group retirement savings plans; and an employee and family assistance program.

Comments/Special Considerations:

Successful candidates must obtain and hold security clearance at the reliability status level, and pass security assessment for the Controlled Goods Program (CGP) and ITAR.

MDA is an equal opportunity employer prizing diversity and inclusion. We are committed to treating all employees and applicants for employment with respect and dignity. If you require assistance and/or reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process we can assist.

Reference ID: R09407

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Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Benefits:

• Extended health care

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday

COVID-19 considerations:
Strengthening our workforce is more important than ever to meet our customers' mission-critical needs. We are continuing to hire many talented individuals, and we are closely monitoring COVID-19 to ensure safe hiring practices are used.

Education:

• Master's Degree (Preferred)

Work remotely:

• Temporarily due to COVID-19