Team Lead, Software Development

HootSuite Media, Inc.$98K — $137K *
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Degree in Computer Science or Engineering or equivalent experience
  • 5+ years of software design, development, and maintenance
  • Proficient in Go, Scala, or similar languages
  • Understanding of distributed systems in high availability environments
  • Experience in mentoring and coaching teammates
  • Familiarity with SaaS software development practices
  • Ability to collaborate effectively and prioritize team needs over individual goals

Responsibilities

  • Build and lead a high-performance team of developers
  • Facilitate ongoing development and career growth conversations
  • Participate in the hiring process to attract top talent
  • Assess, prioritize, and delegate team tasks effectively
  • Maintain high standards of project security, reliability, and quality
  • Help shape the technical roadmap for scaling services and creating new products
  • Design and deploy scalable code using various technologies

Benefits

  • Opportunity to lead and grow a cohesive development team
  • Involvement in shaping technical direction and product innovation
  • High-impact role contributing to significant software projects
  • Collaborative and learning-oriented work environment
  • Flexible work arrangements with a focus on team success
Full Job Description
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. 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.

WHAT YOU'LL DO:
  • 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 portfoliosParticipate 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 projectsHelp 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


WHAT YOU'LL NEED:
  • 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
  • You are proficient in Go, Scala or a similar language and have a desire to learn other languages
  • Understanding of distributed systems and how to work in high availability environments
  • Experience with mentoring, coaching, and pairing with coworkers
  • An understanding of SaaS software development practice, previous experience working on a SaaS product will be viewed favorably
  • Collaboration and Teamwork: works with others to deliver results, meaningfully contributing to the team and prioritizing group needs over individual needs
  • 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
  • Resilience, Tolerance for Change/Ambiguity: can effectively cope with change, finding ways to advance work and projects

WHO YOU ARE:
  • 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
  • Conscientious. You keep your promises, taking your commitments to others seriously, and you have strong integrity
  • Humble. You lead with humility and empathy, respecting and learning from the perspectives of others


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Canada Pay Range For This Role

$98,400-$137,800 CAD

Use of AI in Hiring

Hootsuite uses artificial intelligence (AI) to support our recruitment process. These tools may assist with screening and assessing applicants and / or summarizing interview feedback. All final hiring decisions are made by human decision-makers who use their professional judgement to review and evaluate relevant candidate information in addition to AI outputs. For more information about how we use AI and your rights, please see our Careers Privacy Policy.

About HootSuite Media, Inc.

Hootsuite is a social media management platform, created by Ryan Holmes in 2008. The system's user interface takes the form of a dashboard, and supports social network integrations for Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest, YouTube and TikTok. Based in Vancouver, Hootsuite has close to 1,000 staff members in 13 locations, including Toronto, London, Paris, Sydney, Bucharest, Milan, Rome and Mexico City. The company has more than 16 million users in over 175 countries.
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