Technology Lead (Remote - Canada)

Altus Group•Toronto, ON

4d•Remote

About The Position

Altus Group’s Engineering team is leading the transformation of analytics in the world of Commercial Real Estate. Our platform and technology portfolio help our clients manage their commercial real estate investments with the goals to increase their returns and lower investment risks. There is a lot of data in Commercial Real Estate, but it is often siloed in different formats and hard to access and work with. At Altus we are building a future of CRE analytics with a modern cloud platform that centralizes, normalizes, and provides access to the right CRE intelligence when our clients need it. Engineers require extensive knowledge in architecture, design and development, experience with agile methodologies, proficiency in a high-level language, and experience building highly scalable and distributed systems. Engineers at Altus are producing the next generation of our CRE platform in a highly visible and fast-paced environment. As a Senior Engineer at Altus, you will own the design and engineering of major deliverables that have direct impact on our customers and investors.

Requirements

5-7+ years of experience
Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related technical discipline AND 5+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to Python, JavaScript, React, Java, C#
Systematic problem solving with clean, modular design thinking.
Track record of excellence in software engineering, including design, coding, code reviews, testing automation, and DevOps.
Effective communication and collaboration in a team environment
Experience with building, deploying, and operating applications and services on cloud platforms (e.g., AWS and Azure)
Growth mindset to learn, seek diverse viewpoints, and stay current with industry trends and techniques.
Startup mentality and experience working with lean requirements, can move and iterate rapidly, work across disciplines, and focus on customers.
Extensive experience producing code for high value, highly complex, distributed cloud-based platforms and applications.
Extensive experience as a tech lead or key individual contributor with demonstrated performance of project teams delivering high velocity and quality, making and communicating technical decisions and driving engineering excellence.
Demonstrated performance showcasing Altus leadership and transformation principles for server-less, lean, high velocity engineering teams.

Responsibilities

Produce code (and support it) at a high velocity, high quality and integrity to our engineering standards
Work effectively in ambiguity and lead others through a changing environment, without compromising velocity and quality.
Quickly understand product vision, roadmap, business objectives, solution architecture and can produce technical design at a high velocity.
Can quickly estimate their development stories based on lean requirements.
Perform at a high level with lean requirements.
Take ‘good’ risks with confidence, humility, and agility.
Appreciate and understand the solution architecture and deployment environment where their code will run and ensure it is secure, scalable, resilient, and supportable.
Move security and operations left to the design phase, and they ensure all functional and non-functional requirements satisfy acceptance criteria.
Own end to end security of their code and their application and data.
Instinctively identify and mitigate issues that impede velocity or compromise engineering integrity.
Recognize, measure, create awareness and assertively mitigate risks to engineering and delivery.
Transparent (and quick) with re-estimations and burndowns
Adhere to and are a champion for our engineering standards.
Drive engineering improvements continuously to ship more rapidly and efficiently with higher quality.
Foster a culture of excellence, inclusion, collaboration, and customer focus.
Embody our culture, our lean process and our values.
Drive visionary technical excellence.
They are in charge of highly complex systems and serve as leaders and mentors to large teams of Engineers and Senior Engineers.
Own a framework end to end, enabling higher velocity for platform teams, making key technical design decisions, architecture decisions, producing code, planning and overseeing framework development.
As an individual contributor produce code at higher velocity and quality than junior members of the team.
Be a tech lead on large, high profile projects including development of strategic frameworks and commercial products.