1 day ago
Remote, Canada or Ottawa, CanadaMid Level
Responsibilities
- Advocate for positive user experiences across UI, CLI, and API and help shape user-focused design decisions with product managers.
- Learn and contribute to distributed systems and the role's technical stack, including Java development.
- Participate in code reviews and provide technical feedback to improve design, performance, and usability.
- Investigate production issues, identify root causes, and implement long-term solutions.
- Contribute to team collaboration and uphold best practices in development and deployment pipelines.
Requirements
- Have two years of experience and a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
- Be proficient with Angular/TypeScript and Java/Spring Boot.
- Write testable code with unit and integration tests.
- Debug and solve problems in distributed Linux systems, microservices, and containerized environments.
- Have hands-on experience writing agent instructions and implementing workflow best practices.
- Evaluate UX across tools and interfaces with a user-first mindset.
- Communicate effectively with technical and non-technical collaborators.
Benefits
- Flexible work arrangement through Akamai's FlexBase program, including working from home, in an office, or a combination of both.
- Benefits include healthcare, RRSP, company holidays, PTO, sick time, family-friendly benefits, employee assistance, and mental and financial wellness support.
- Potential additional compensation may include annual bonuses or incentives, equity awards, and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan; eligibility requirements apply.
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About Akamai
Akamai builds content delivery, cloud security, and edge compute services for enterprises that run consumer and business web, API, and video workloads. The public company (NASDAQ: AKAM), founded in 1998 and headquartered in Cambridge, MA, operates a global CDN and security platform and sells via subscriptions and usage-based services. It expanded into cloud infrastructure by acquiring Linode in 2022, offering IaaS and managed Kubernetes.