Software Engineering Expert

AutoTrader.ca•Toronto, ON

5d•Onsite

About The Position

This role will be within the AutoSync team. AutoSync supports over 3,500 dealerships nationwide, delivering cutting-edge software tools to simplify operations, boost marketing, and drive sales. Are you passionate about growing people, scaling engineering teams, and delivering meaningful product impact? At AutoScout24, we're seeking an Engineering Expert who excels at building high-performing systems and creating solutions our customers genuinely value. You'll lead the engineering vision within multiple cross-functional teams of full-stack engineers, fostering an environment of innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning.

Requirements

8+ years of engineering technical leadership experience.
Demonstrated success delivering complex software products in collaborative environments.
Proven experience integrating AI-driven solutions into daily work — such as code generation, debugging, reviews, documentation, and decision support—to improve efficiency for yourself and teams.
Possess a proactive approach to exploring and implementing AI tools that drive innovation and streamline development processes.
Strong experience building highly scalable public facing web based applications.
Strong technical background with expertise in language agnostic full-stack development.
Experience with cloud infrastructure management (AWS preferred) and modern software architecture patterns.
Exceptional communication skills with ability to adapt your approach across technical and non-technical audiences.
Experience fostering inclusive team cultures that embrace diverse perspectives and working styles
Data-driven decision-making abilities balanced with empathetic leadership

Responsibilities

Provide architectural direction and technical mentorship across our applications.
Being both hands as an individual contributor and over-arching guiding multiple teams to ensure technical and architectural solutions appropriately address requirements.
Challenging designs when necessary to ensure scalability, quality, and long-term maintainability.
Ensure that project goals, scope, product requirements, and specifications are complete, coherent, and aligned with intended business outcomes.
Ensure solution architecture is defined, highly optimized to achieve the goals of the projects and adhering to the architectural patterns we want to enforce.
Bringing AI driven efficiency improvements to the team and helping pave the way to improve in how teams work.
Being a leader in this new domain to help your team grow their skills and modernize the SDLC.
Ensure technical decisions enforce site reliability engineering bests practices.
Establish and track meaningful SLOs, develop proactive monitoring systems, ensure incidents lead to learning opportunities, and maintain data quality across your domains.
Connect team initiatives to company objectives.
Participate in cross-functional planning, translate business strategy into actionable engineering work, and help the teams understand how their contributions advance AutoScout24's mission.