Minimum 3 years of experience in ecommerce, commercial operations, travel, airline, or tour operator environments.
Ability to work with minimal supervision and guidance.
Strong problem-solving skills, especially in familiar areas.
Experience driving impactful outputs and initiatives with Senior IT leaders.
Flexibility to work evenings and weekends.
Responsibilities
Design and implement high-quality code to set standards for the team.
Analyze and explain functional and technical requirements related to coding.
Collaborate with technical leaders on design processes and solutions.
Create prototypes and analyze existing code for improvements.
Drive API design and work within a microservices architecture.
Conduct code reviews and provide constructive feedback.
Participate in Scrum activities and lead when necessary.
Benefits
Hybrid work opportunities.
Career growth through challenging and rewarding work.
Social responsibility initiatives for community engagement.
Fun, passionate, travel-loving team culture.
Great travel perks for employees.
Free parking available.
Open-concept, collaborative workspace.
Full Job Description
The Opportunity:
We're looking for a Lead Developer IV, Front End to join the team. You will be responsible for responsible for developing, designing, and delivering quality software to meet business objectives.
You will be an authoritative source on everything software-oriented, be a major player in key initiatives, and work closely with the Development and IT teams to ensure mutual and collaborative success. As a Lead, you are expected to spend the majority of your time facilitating and ensuring the success of the team, rather than always being hands-on in the code.
What You'll Do:
Design and Implement code, setting a very high standard for the team
Be comfortable explaining, analyzing, and understanding Functional and Technical Requirements, and how it maps to coding
Work closely with technical leaders in the Design process of Technical Requirements and Solutions, and drive certain areas in the Design
Create prototypes, draw diagrams, analyze existing code, and research external sources
Produce exceptional quality code which has minimal defects, is robust, extensible (future proof), and has some focus into performance considerations (scalability)
Able to drive API design when called upon, and comfortable with a Micro-services-oriented Architecture
Have a strong knowledge in Database concepts and Database table design, including normalization patterns and performance tuning
Be comfortable working with external third parties on integration work, including interactions, coding, and consuming/(and potentially questioning) solutions and documentation
Understand, follow, and provide feedback/identify areas of improvement in the Sunwing SDLC practices
Participate in Team Scrum activities such as Sprint planning, Sprint review and Sprint retrospective, and lead/drive when necessary to assist the processes
Responsible for Code reviews and providing feedback when Code is not correct or up to standards
Assist testing processes and provide knowledge sharing with QA team
Take initiative in Software documentation and assisting others in Documentation writing
Take Initiative whenever something appears to "not be up to par"
Know inside and out the Shared Technical guidelines for Best Practices, and provide feedback on process and practice where it can be improved
Ensure and uphold coding standards and Best Practices
Have a solid understanding and knowledge of the larger Sunwing technology stack (breadth and depth)
Be comfortable interacting, communicating, and sharing ideas with both technical and non-technical minded personnel
Keep up with technology and technology trends, and be able to work with Architecture to come up with new ways of solving problems
Provide assistance in areas of Support interacting with areas the Developer is familiar with, and potentially areas beyond (potentially after normal working hours)
Be able to quickly troubleshoot problems in the areas the Developer is familiar with, and works around (i.e. the larger group's software portfolio), including the infrastructure landscape
Identify issues, develop, and maintain processes that address and resolve them and communicate/alert stakeholders, as needed.
Be extremely comfortable with all areas within the Technology and Infrastructure stack, and know the right questions to ask to isolate and resolve a problem, and come up with logical plans for resolution
Ensure that the Team is able to deliver on their work, and assist in areas where they are facing issues or hardships
What You'll Need:
Minimum 3 years of experience in ecommerce, commercial operations, travel, airline, or tour operator environments.
Work is peer-reviewed, minimal supervision and guidance is expected
Strong problem solving ability within areas of familiarity, and able to grasp concepts quickly in areas not super familiar with
Being a key driver in impactful outputs and major initiatives is expected, working with Senior IT leaders
Flexible work schedule with the ability to work evenings and weekends.
What We Offer:
Hybrid Work Opportunities.
Grow your career with challenging and rewarding work that makes a difference.
Opportunity to give back through our social responsibility initiatives.
Work with a fun, passionate, travel-loving team!
Great travel perks!
Free parking.
Open-concept, collaborative workspace.
See for yourself! @sunwinglife
We thank all who apply however only those who meet the qualifications will be contacted.
