Position Title: Supervisory Lead Developer - Account Experiences
Status of Employment:Contractee Long-Term (Fixed Term)
Position Language Requirement:English, French
Language Skills:English (Reading - C - Advanced), English (Speaking - C - Advanced), English (Writing - C - Advanced)
How you will make an impact:- Leading a cross-platform team as they explore how to connect our audience to our content in a more personalized way across our web, Android and iOS applications.
- Collaborating with our Architects to understand and validate technical requirements and systems designs.
- Working with Developers and Quality Engineers to ensure that technical requirements and system designs are followed during development.
- Supporting and collaborating with your peer team of Lead Developers.
- Looking for opportunities for innovation and exploration as part of your team's "product trio" (Product Manager, UX Lead, Engineering Lead)
- Establishing and reinforcing development best practices to ensure code is scalable, maintainable and testable.
- Establishing and reinforcing development processes such as pull request (PR) review policies, release management and managing technical debt.
- Collaborating with Agile Team Leads, Product Managers, Product Owners, Architects and Lead Developers from partner teams.
- Assessing feasibility of work and supporting the breakdown of that work - clarifying, prioritizing and estimating tickets and coordinating these processes with the Agile Team Lead.
- Supporting the delivery of sprint work by helping the team identify and remove any impediments, escalating issues when needed.
- Encouraging knowledge sharing, collaboration and support among the Developers.
- Supervising a team of Developers who report directly to you across all platforms (Android, iOS and web).
- Supporting your reports with regular one-on-one conversations, mentoring and coaching.
- Identifying opportunities for learning and growth for your reports, providing technical feedback and professional guidance.
- Ensuring the team has the capacity to deliver work on time through managing time cards and absence requests (e.g. vacation time), and supporting hiring.
Qualifications- 2+ years of experience in a leadership role providing technical leadership for a team of Developers
- 5+ years of experience in software development in a senior role with in-depth knowledge of native Android and/or iOS mobile development.
- Working knowledge of Compose Multiplatform and Web Development with ReactJS
- Evidenced skill in integrating cross-platform modules and components into both Android and iOS native codebases.
- Experience with setting coding standards and practices - development best practices for coding, quality management, continuous integration and release management
- Experience using REST APIs and Graph Query Language (GQL/GraphQL) to communicate with backend services.
- Strong understanding of common architectural patterns (e.g. MVVM, Clean Architecture, etc) and design patterns (e,g, Chain of Responsibility, etc.) and the ability to assess their value in different contexts.
- Demonstrated understanding of modularizing code.
- Run-time, code quality, maintainability and scalability are key factors when you consider solutions.
- Familiarity with Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) and how it improves the release process and have experience managing related platforms.
- Ability to actively propose and implement improvements to development approaches and codebases.
- Experience with the full software development lifecycle
- Ability to communicate complex technical information clearly and accurately to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- You can support your technical choices with clear and proven evidence.
- Agile Principles are a core part of how you work
- Experience with mentoring and coaching developers and identifying potential areas of strength and growth for them
- Ability to foster innovation and collaboration.
- You take responsibility for the team's work and success, not just your individual goals.
- You are an advocate for diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility in your workplace and understand the advantage this brings to your work.
Candidates may be subject to skills and knowledge testing.
We thank all applicants for their interest, but only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.
Primary Location:Broadcast Centre 205 Wellington St. W., Toronto, Ontario, M5V 3G7
Number of Openings:1
Work Schedule:Full time
