Tech Lead

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Canada.

📋 Description

• Collaborate with project stakeholders and the development team to design, develop, and implement scalable, user-friendly applications and libraries utilizing Node, React, and Typescript.

• Partner with Product Management to analyze, refine, and decompose roadmap items into epics, subsequently breaking down epics into discrete, actionable, appropriately sized tickets for the team’s backlog.

• Offer a technical viewpoint on organizational goals within the team’s operational scope. Assess requirements, pinpoint areas of concern, and provide suggestions based on your extensive technical expertise.

• Leveraging POC models provided by Staff Developers, design and implement systems and infrastructure aligned with the team’s vision and culture.

• Comply with the organization’s security strategy by adopting a security-first approach.

• Evaluate various strategies and architectural options, highlighting trade-offs for potential solutions.

• Conduct code reviews to ensure pull requests meet the acceptance criteria of the tickets they address.

• Utilize quality metrics to pinpoint deficiencies in the testing strategy.

• Collaborate with teams to propose solutions that align with accepted testing frameworks.

• Oversee and enhance the integration of third-party systems into our infrastructure while ensuring the reliability, performance, and security of these systems. Work closely with cross-functional teams to identify integration requirements, implement solutions, and monitor system performance to ensure uninterrupted service delivery.

• Identify and prioritize areas of technical debt and bugs, taking into account the outcomes of the incident management process and addressing them with the team.

• Foster a culture of iterative deployability, being mindful of cycle time and failure rates.

• Mentor and coach the development team, enhancing their technical knowledge and skills.

• Employ a systematic approach to debugging to diagnose issues within the application.

• Write unit tests as well as higher-level tests to ensure application quality and stability.

• Consistently deliver production-ready code that is easily testable, understandable, and considers edge cases and errors, using documentation strategies such as comments where appropriate.

• Adhere to Agile practices, propose improvements, and actively participate in team events.

• Develop a comprehensive understanding of the company’s goals and initiatives to assist the engineering team in achieving those objectives.

• Ensure that technical standards such as accessibility, performance, security, maintainability, functional correctness, operability, and observability are maintained in the modules developed and maintained by the team.

• Document decisions, research, and guides to promote a culture of continuous learning and improvement.

⛳️ Requirements

• University degree or college diploma in a recognized technical, vocational, or academic program, or equivalent work experience.

• Over 7 years of experience in developing rich, complex, and scalable APIs, including integration with third-party APIs.

• More than 5 years of experience in building front-end web applications using modern JavaScript frameworks.

• At least 2 years of experience in designing scalable and distributed systems.

• Proven experience in mentoring other developers.

• Extensive full-stack experience with React/Redux/Node/Typescript/PostgreSQL and JavaScript.

• Comprehensive experience with the Scrum framework and Agile methodologies.

• Familiarity with DORA metrics to measure DevOps performance and experience in communicating results with the team.

• Background in architecting and enhancing large software systems.

• Proficient with JavaScript development tools such as WebPack, Babel, and Storybook.

• Experience with unit testing frameworks like Jest/Mocha.

• Background in building and/or working with microservices and micro front-ends.

🏝️ Benefits

• Remote-first setup for added flexibility.

• Home office allowance to create a comfortable workspace.

• Top-tier tech: "Office in a box" equipped with all necessary tech equipment.

• Half days before public holidays: Enjoy half days leading into long weekends.

• Flexible health and dental plans for families, including mental health support.

• Health & personal spending accounts to invest in wellness your way.

• Parental leave top-up, emphasizing that family comes first.

• Education assistance reimbursement for courses, conferences, books, and memberships.

• Opportunities to learn from industry experts and advance your career.

• Weekly Friday huddles to share updates and connect across teams.

• Virtual & in-person team-building events to strengthen our culture.