Position: Back End Developer DDD Office GOA
Rate: $106-$128/HR
Location: REMOTE
Requisition Closing Date: June 11, 2025 12:00 PM MST
POSITION SUMMARY:
Role Description: BACK END DEVELOPER - DDD
Responsibilities:
The Government of Alberta (GoA) has embarked on transforming the work of government to deliver simpler, more efficient, and better services for the citizens of Alberta, thereby ensuring that the needs of Albertans are effectively met in the digital age. The GoA has a strategic role within government to drive efficiencies, innovation and modernization. The Digital Design and Delivery Division (DDD) is the Province’s new centre for digital delivery. It was established to maximize capability and confidence in modern digital practice by ensuring service quality and value through standards and controls. This includes utilizing human-centred design approaches together with Agile methodology and modern data practices.
DDD is currently working with Ministries across the GoA establishing working relationships with Ministries throughout this engagement. DDD’s Platforms branch manages large-scale enterprise projects to build and maintain high-impact platforms, products and services related to identity and access management, payment distributions, and e-commerce.
The Developer(s) plays a key role in leading technology research and discovery, with a strong focus on security, user experience, performance, and maintainability. They are responsible for the back-end architecture and design, collaborating closely with cross-functional teams, including Designers, Developers, Digital and Data Architects, and Product Owners. They translate functional requirements and user needs into technical solutions while ensuring alignment with user-centered design principles.
The Developer(s) is responsible for applying security best practices, ensuring solutions meet regulatory and compliance standards. They lead in code reviews, guaranteeing high code quality. The Developer(s) collaborates with DevOps teams to integrate code into continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, ensuring seamless and rapid deployments with minimal disruption to users and business operations. The Developer(s) proactively monitors and resolves performance and security issues, continuously upgrading technologies to reduce technical debt and address potential vulnerabilities. The Developer(s) is responsible for maintaining back-end development processes, artifacts, and documentation.
To succeed, a solid background in back-end development is required. A strong technical understanding of current and emerging technologies, coupled with excellent communication, critical thinking, and collaboration skills is essential. The ability to balance business acumen with project leadership expertise will be crucial to successfully navigate and deliver in this dynamic environment.
Technology Stack
React, React Native, TypeScript, .NET/NET Core Framework, C#, Azure App Services, Azure cloud-based development, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Cosmos DB, and GitHub.
Mandatory Qualifications: (Must have Minimum 7 years of all of the following)
***MUST HAVE MINIMUM 2 YEARS WORKING IN GOVERNMENT***
- Bachelor degree in Computer Science, IT
- Experience in API development with strong expertise in back-end architecture design, ensuring security, performance, versioning, error handling, reliability, usability, data integrity, and both backward and forward compatibility.
- Experience with mobile app development.
- Experience working as a Senior Back-End Developer on large-scale enterprise projects with 15 or more team members.
- Experience working on large-scale enterprise applications using relational databases, NoSQL databases to build secure, scalable, and maintainable solutions.
- Experience working on the same enterprise project for at least two (2) years.
- Experience working within an agile development environment.
- Experience developing with unfamiliar technology stacks and/or adapting to new teams and projects.
- Experience incrementally transforming existing legacy systems into modern digital services across multiple releases
- Experience in the Government of Alberta environment or an environment of equivalent size and complexity. (2 years)
- Experience with Dual-Track Development process.
- Experience with leveraging Artificial Intelligent (AI) tools for back-end development.
- Experience working in large global or national organizations.(2 years)
MATRIX BASED APPLICATION
NOTES ON LOCATION: REMOTE
Estimated Start Date: JULY 2025
Estimated End Date: JULY 2026
Possible Extension: 2 x 12 months
Rate Range: $106 - $128/hr
Based on Experience and Competitiveness