Software Development Team Lead (Identity) (Toronto)

Job Summary

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. Responsibilities

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.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. Qualifications

Understanding of distributed systems and how to work in high availability environments. 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.An understanding of SaaS software development practice, previous experience working on a SaaS product will be viewed favorably. Experience with mentoring, coaching, and pairing with coworkers. You are proficient in Go, Scala or a similar language and have a desire to learn other languages. Collaboration and Teamwork: works with others to deliver results, meaningfully contributing to the team and prioritizing group needs over individual needs.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. Resilience, tolerance for change/ambiguity: can effectively cope with change, finding ways to advance work and projects.Humble: you lead with humility and empathy, respecting and learning from the perspectives of others. Conscientious: you keep your promises, taking your commitments to others seriously, and you have strong integrity. Tenacious: you are determined to succeed, and you are motivated by the success of customers, colleagues and the community.Curious: you are always learning and seeking ways to make things better. Benefits

100% coverage on mental health-related treatments in North America. Culturally appropriate trauma counselling services. A company-wide Wellness Week between July5to12 where we can all“unplug” together. Accidental death and dismemberment (AD&D) Insurance. Dental Insurance. Disability Insurance. Employee Assistance Program. Gym / Wellness Reimbursement ($55 per month). Gym Discount. Health Insurance. Life Insurance. Maternity Leave. PTO (Vacation / Personal Days)– 20 days. After your two year anniversary, you get an additional two days each year until you reach thirty days (six weeks) at your sixth anniversary.Paternity Leave. Sick Time (for individual employee and family members). Bereavement Leave. Business Travel Insurance. Company Phones. Fertility Assistance (Coverage for fertility treatments and gender affirmation surgeries). Immigration Assistance. Phone Bill Reimbursement ($50 per month).Work from home. 401k. Employee Discount. Pet Friendly Workplace. RRSP Matching. Volunteer Time Off.

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