Team Lead, Software Development (Identity)

Hootsuite•Edmonton, AB

2d•Remote

About The Position

We’re looking for a Lead, Software Development to help us build and lead a high-performance team that solves challenging engineering problems as we build the next generation of social products. You will support the Senior Manager, Development to hire, grow, coach, and lead a team of developers to build, scale, monitor, and optimize our billing infrastructure working on account management, pricing and packaging, subscription lifecycle, compliance, payment processing and more. While based in Canada (in locations where we can legally hire), you will report to the Senior Manager, Software Development.

Requirements

A degree in Computer Science or Engineering, and at least 5 years of experience in designing, developing and maintaining software or an equivalent level of work experience, and a track record of substantial contributions to software projects with high business impact
Proficient in Go, Scala or a similar language and have a desire to learn other languages
Understanding of distributed systems and how to work in high availability environments
Experience with mentoring, coaching, and pairing with coworkers
An understanding of SaaS software development practice, previous experience working on a SaaS product will be viewed favorably
Collaboration and Teamwork: works with others to deliver results, meaningfully contributing to the team and prioritizing group needs over individual needs
Creativity and Innovation: seeks new and better ways of doing things, generating original and imaginative ideas, products, and/or solutions
Problem Solving: uses an organized and logical approach to find solutions to complex problems and looks beyond the obvious to understand the root cause of problems and proposes several possible solutions
Resilience, Tolerance for Change/Ambiguity: can effectively cope with change, finding ways to advance work and projects

Responsibilities

Build, support and lead a high performance, cohesive team of developers, in close partnership with the Senior Manager, Development
Facilitate ongoing development conversations with your team to support their learning and career growth
Proactively share information, actively solicit feedback, and facilitate communication, within teams and portfolios
Participate in the hiring process, with an aim of attracting and hiring the best developers
Assess and prioritize the team's work, appropriately delegating to others and encouraging team ownership.
Maintain high standards of security, reliability, scalability, performance, and quality in all delivered projects
Help shape our technical roadmap as we scale our services and build new products
Design, write, test, and deploy high quality scalable code
Work with the following technologies: Go, Scala, PHP, Docker, Jenkins, Kafka, Redis, Cassandra in an environment that’s using NoSQL databases, Domain Driven Design, Event Sourcing, Test Driven Design and Agile