Company Overview
BroadView Software has been a leader in broadcast technology for over 30 years, providing innovative software solutions to television and radio stations worldwide. Our commitment to responsiveness, ingenuity, and client-centered service drives us to stay ahead of industry trends and deliver exceptional products that simplify broadcast management.
Why Broadview?
- Great culture - friendly, supportive, family-friendly
- Regular company and team-building events
- Work from home with visits to our office in Toronto as needed
- Company-supplied equipment and tools for the role
- Competitive benefits (for you and your family)
- Three weeks' vacation to start
- Paid sick days
Summary
As a member of the Development team, you will be part of an agile development team, building and working on internal projects. You will collaborate with a team of software developers, business analysts and software architects to plan, design, develop, test, and maintain web- and desktop-based business applications.
Stack: React / Redux / Vite (Frontend) · Java / Vert.x / Guice / JDBI (Backend)
Database: Firebird SQL
This position is suited for intermediate-to-senior developers. Candidates should be able to work independently within their domain, contribute meaningfully to technical decisions, and support less experienced teammates where needed.
This stack deliberately favors lightweight, reactive Java frameworks. Candidates coming exclusively from a Spring background are unlikely to be a strong fit. Familiarity with Micronaut or Quarkus signals the right architectural mindset — even if Vert.x itself is new to you.
Responsibilities
- Code and test components as per design specifications
- Write unit test for various components
- Collaborate with Development Team and other cross functional teams to solve product and customer issues
- Successfully use design principles and knowledge of database architectures
- Design tools for systems to meet business needs
- Deliver technical visualization of proposed application architecture
- Contribute to best practice system and application design
- Designing, coding and testing programs and scripts from agreed specification
- Translate application storyboards, use cases and stories into functional applications
- Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems
- Stay updated with new tools, frameworks, approaches, and architectures in the development world
Frontend Development
Core Requirements
- React — functional components and hooks, component lifecycle, performance patterns
- Redux & Redux Toolkit — state shape design, selectors, middleware patterns (Thunk/Saga)
- TypeScript — strong typing, generics, discriminated unions, type narrowing
- Vite — build configuration, plugin ecosystem, environment and asset handling
- Tailwind CSS — utility-first styling, responsive design, custom configuration
- REST API integration — async data-fetching patterns, error handling, loading states; React Query or SWR is a plus
- Testing — Jest and React Testing Library; unit and integration testing of components and hooks
Good to Have
- Experience consuming OpenAPI-generated TypeScript clients
- OAuth 2.0 / OIDC flows from the browser — PKCE, token storage, silent refresh
- Web performance profiling and optimization (Core Web Vitals, bundle analysis)
- Accessibility fundamentals (WCAG, ARIA)
Backend Development
Core Requirements
- Java 17+ — strong fundamentals: concurrency model, generics, streams, functional idioms, memory model
- Vert.x — event loop model, verticles, reactive/non-blocking I/O, the event bus, Vert.x Web
- Google Guice — dependency injection, modules, scopes, providers, assisted injection
- JDBI — SQL object API, fluent API, result set mapping, transaction management
- SQL — Firebird (hard requirement) — complex queries, joins, subqueries, window functions, indexing strategy, query planning; Firebird-specific knowledge (PSQL stored procedures, generators/sequences, multi-generational architecture, transaction isolation) is a strong differentiator
- Apache Kafka — producers/consumers, consumer groups, offset management, delivery semantics; Kafka Streams is a plus
- OpenAPI — spec-first or code-first workflows, contract validation, server/client code generation
- OAuth 2.0 / OpenID Connect — server-side: token validation, scopes, JWKS endpoint, token introspection
- OpenTelemetry — instrumentation, trace context propagation, metrics, structured log correlation
- Testing — JUnit 5, Mockito; integration testing patterns
Strong Assets
- Micronaut or Quarkus — reactive, AOT compilation, GraalVM native image mindset; these reflect the architectural values of this stack
- Containerization fundamentals — Docker, basic Kubernetes gRPC, Protobuf
AI Tooling & Prompt Engineering
Core Requirements
- Practical daily use of AI assistants (Claude, ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, or similar) for code generation, review, debugging, and documentation
- Effective prompt construction — decomposing complex tasks, supplying relevant context, specifying constraints and output format
- Critical evaluation of AI output — knowing when to trust, verify, refactor, or push back on generated suggestions
Good to Have
- Experience with Claude specifically — Projects, extended context, system prompt design
- Familiarity with AI-assisted API design or spec generation
- Experience integrating AI APIs (Anthropic, OpenAI, etc.) into production applications
Required Experience and Qualities
- Bachelor’s in computer science/engineering or related area
- 5+ years of programming experience
- Ability to travel to BroadView’s head office (111 George St, Toronto, Ontario M5A 2N4) as required to meet business needs
- Detail oriented with good analytical skills and keen attention to detail
- Ability to work both independently and in team environment
- Strong communication skills with an ability to communicate clearly, effectively, and in a timely manner
- Excellent personal organization and ability to prioritize and carry out multiple tasks
- Strong initiative to find ways to improve solutions, systems, and processes
Nice to Have:
- Broadcast/Media industry experience
Broadview Software Inc is committed to providing a barrier-free work environment in concert with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act and the Ontario Human Rights Code. As such, Broadview Software Inc will make accommodations available to applicants with disabilities upon request during the recruitment process.
Broadview Software Inc is an equal opportunity employer and strives to ensure that its hiring process meets the needs of all persons with disabilities. As such, Broadview Software Inc will provide reasonable accommodation for any applicant, as requested during the hiring process.
Broadview Software Inc seeks to fully integrate the principles of Employment Equity and will ensure the full participation and advancement of members of historically disadvantaged groups (i.e., members of visible minorities, persons with disabilities, women, and aboriginal peoples). Broadview Software Inc will achieve this by ensuring that its hiring process is fair and equitable for all persons.
Broadview Software Inc strives to ensure that its employment practices are free from direct and indirect discrimination and is committed to upholding the human rights of those participating in the hiring process. In pursuit of this commitment, Broadview Software Inc will not condone or tolerate any acts of discrimination or harassment under any of the grounds protected under human rights legislation. This commitment extends to the hiring process and throughout the course of employment.
Pay: $105,000.00-$125,000.00 per year
Application question(s):
- Are you located within a commutable distance to BroadView's head office in Toronto, ON M5A 2N4?
- Are you legally eligible to work in Canada?
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Toronto, ON M5A 2N4
