Software Developer I

Job Title

Important Tasks / Activities / Outcomes

Feature Development & Maintenance

·         Build small to medium features across Dahrouge’s SaaS products and client websites, following team standards and designs.

·         Fix bugs and perform maintenance on existing applications, keeping them stable for clients.

·         Own assigned stories from start to finish, with code review and support from senior developers.

·         Turn designs into responsive, accessible pages that pass accessibility and performance checks.

·         Participate in project planning and estimation session with stakeholders.

Data Collection & Integrations

·         Maintain and improve the scheduled scrapers that collect data from external websites and sources.

·         Detect and promptly fix a scraper when a source changes or stops working.

·         Clean, validate and load collected data into company databases.

·         Help build and maintain integrations with external data services, such as mapping and spatial (GIS) services.

Client Websites

·         Turn designs into responsive, accessible pages that look like the design.

·         Ensure sites pass accessibility and performance checks before release.

·         Check work before release so changes don’t break existing features.

Code Quality & Collaboration

·         Write automated tests and clear documentation alongside new code, not after.

·         Use AI coding tools responsibly: review, test and be able to explain every line they produce.

·         Follow the team’s standards for code, security and version control.

·         Participate in Git-based workflows, pull requests and code review.

·         Explain progress, problems and technical topics clearly to developers and non-technical colleagues.

Requirements

Required

Education

• Diploma or Bachelor’s degree in Computing Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Experience

• 1 to 2 years of professional software development experience.

Designations & Certifications

• None required.
• Certifications in cloud platforms (e.g., Microsoft Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud) or machine-learning specializations are considered an asset.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Solid Python: HTTP requests, parsing HTML and JSON, and working with data in pandas.
• Solid React and TypeScript, including building components and pages in Next.js.
• Writing automated tests with pytest, Vitest or similar.
• SQL and relational databases, ideally PostgreSQL.
• HTML and CSS, and turning a design into a responsive, accessible page.
• Git, pull requests and code review.
• Able to use an AI coding assistant and explain every line it writes.
• Able to work through problems independently and explain technical topics to non-developers.

Assets (Nice to have):

• GIS and spatial data: GeoPandas, Shapely, PostGIS, ESRI REST services, or QGIS.
• A headless CMS such as Payload, or Astro.
• Docker and GitHub Actions.
• Microsoft Azure.
• An interest in mining, exploration or geoscience.
• Able to communicate in French.