ABAP/ODATA Developer designing, developing, and supporting SAP ABAP and OData solutions. Delivering S/4HANA customizations, integrations, and technical project support.
About the role
- Developer II responsible for internal applications at Nelson Education, Canada's K-12 publisher. Involves software development and DevOps-oriented responsibilities for enhancing educational content delivery.
Responsibilities
- As the largest Canadian-owned and operated K-12 publisher, Nelson Education Ltd. is Canada's only heritage education content provider, known for its innovative products and solutions catering to learners across the country.
- Nelson is on a mission to make learning accessible, engaging, and effective for all.
- Reporting to the Team Lead, the Developer II is responsible for building, maintaining, and supporting internal applications, services, data pipelines, and platform tooling.
- Implements new features and functionality, improves application reliability and performance, supports deployment workflows, troubleshoots system issues, and helps maintain secure and scalable development and production environments.
- Combines software development with DevOps-oriented responsibilities, including CI/CD, observability, Kubernetes-based deployments, logging, monitoring, and operational support.
Requirements
- 5 years of work experience with several of the following technologies and practices
- TypeScript or JavaScript
- Node.js, Express, Golang or similar backend frameworks
- REST APIs, or service-to-service integrations
- RDBMS and NoSQL databases
- Git, npm, yarn, or similar development tooling
- Automated testing frameworks and code quality tools
- CI/CD tools and deployment pipelines
- Docker or other containerization tools
- Kubernetes concepts and experience deploying or supporting applications in Kubernetes-based environments
- Elastic Stack / ELK, including Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, or related observability tools
- Application logging, monitoring, alerting, and troubleshooting
- Cloud or hosted infrastructure environments
- Secure software development and operational best practices
- Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, or GCP), including networking basics (DNS, TLS, load balancers, ingress).
- Familiarity with secrets management tooling (e.g., Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, sealed secrets) and dependency/vulnerability scanning.
- Database operations experience: schema migrations, indexing, and basic performance tuning.
- Linux/shell fluency and comfort with on-call or production support responsibilities.
- Nice to Have
- Experience supporting applications in development, staging, and production environments.
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code or deployment tools such as Terraform, Helm, or similar technologies.
- Experience with Kubernetes manifests, Helm charts, ingress, services, secrets, config maps, and deployment troubleshooting.
- Experience building or maintaining observability dashboards, alerts, and log-based troubleshooting workflows.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
- Experience with data pipelines, background jobs, queues, or event-driven systems.
- Familiarity with frontend frameworks such as React or Next.js is helpful but not required.
- Ability to balance feature development with operational reliability, maintainability, and security.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively with both software development and infrastructure teams.
- Exposure to compliance frameworks such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI, or HIPAA, and the engineering practices required to support them.
- Experience with backup, disaster recovery, and cost/capacity awareness in cloud environments.
Benefits
- This role is primarily on-site with some hybrid flexibility, M-F, standard business hours
- Commuter friendly location (Sheppard & Don Mills)
- Free parking on-site
- Free, convenient shuttle bus service from Don Mills Subway Station to and from the office
- Access to on-site fitness center and fitness classes
- Access to Linkedin Learning for continuous skill growth
- Mentorship and professional development opportunities
- A comprehensive Employee Assistance Program (EAP) providing confidential support spanning from mental health services to financial counselling, and many things in-between.
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