Valnet Auto | Backend Team Lead

Valnet Inc.•Montreal, QC

9d•Onsite

About The Position

Valnet's Automotive Group is looking for a Backend Team Lead to guide and grow a multi-functional development team. The ideal candidate must possess excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, proven leadership ability, and a desire to work in a fast-paced environment. This person will lead a team of backend developers while working closely with the development team and leaders to develop tools supporting our automotive website projects. In this role you will work primarily on Valnet Auto's proprietary systems and tools.

Requirements

5+ years of experience as a back-end developer
Development with AI assistants
Strong knowledge of SQL (MySQL, ClickHouse) and PHP
Strong knowledge of Javascript (TypeScript)
Experience working with high traffic websites
Experience with Core Web Vitals optimization
Experience with single page applications and REST API/Ajax
Strong knowledge of object-oriented programming
Strong knowledge of modularization and library development approaches

Nice To Haves

GIT (BitBucket), JIRA, Visual Code, Jenkins
Shell Script (Bash)
Knowledge of HTML5, CSS3, and SCSS
Vector Database
LLM Prompting
Good understanding of SEO practices, Google Analytics, and Google PageSpeed

Responsibilities

Lead, mentor, and manage a team of backend developers, supporting their day-to-day work and professional growth
Responsible for new development and maintaining all public sites to optimal performance levels
Play an active role in the analysis phase when defining features with the functional analysts
Improving, maintaining and establishing code standards in cooperation with the rest of the team
Maintaining performance and core web vitals for web pages
Maintain strong knowledge about the latest web development standards and development tools