Nelson Education

Nelson Education

Developer II (12-month Contract)

Toronto, Ontario, Canada · Mid · Contract

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 63 days ago
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About the role

  • Apply and enforce secure coding standards for common risks (OWASP Top 10), including input validation, authentication and authorization (OAuth, JWT, RBAC), and safe handling of sensitive data.
  • Participate in security reviews, threat modelling discussions, and remediation of identified vulnerabilities.
  • Participate in code reviews with a security and reliability lens, and contribute to shared engineering standards.

Responsibilities

  • Own and operate CI/CD pipelines, automated build and deployment workflows, and release processes with a focus on reliability, security, and repeatability.
  • Build and maintain observability infrastructure using Elastic Stack / ELK - including logging pipelines, dashboards, alerting, and log-based troubleshooting workflows.
  • Drive application performance monitoring, alerting, and production-readiness practices across owned services.
  • Maintain infrastructure-as-code, environment hygiene, and operational runbooks for owned services.
  • Contribute to backend application development (APIs, services, data pipelines) to support full operational ownership of platform components.

Requirements

  • Must have 5+ years of hands-on experience with several of the following:

Skills

  • Nelson is on a mission to make learning accessible, engaging, and effective for all.
  • In response to the evolving education landscape, Nelson developed Edwin, a digital learning ecosystem.

Compensation

  • Compensation The base salary range for this contract full-time position begins at $95,000+ per annum based on experience.
  • Compensation is part of our broader Total Rewards package, which includes benefits and programs that support employee well-being and growth.

Benefits

  • Your well-being, growth, and work-life balance matter to us, which is why we offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support you - professionally and personally.
  • Our EDI Statement Nelson teaches the world by learning from everyone in it.
  • We believe in the power of education and our ability to impact social change.
  • Truth, honesty, integrity, and respect guide our decisions and actions in the development of learning solutions that empower success for all educators and learners.

Company info

  • At Nelson, we believe in taking care of our people.
  • We are committed to fostering an equitable, diverse, and inclusive workplace environment.

Visa & Work Authorization

  • asis of age, race, sex, gender, gender identity, colour, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, marital status, citizenship, veteran status, or disability status

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