Technical Lead, Software Engineering

1 month ago

Toronto, Ontario, Canada AutoTrader Full time
Job Title: Technical Lead, Software Engineering

The Technical Lead, Software Engineering will play a key role in helping and supporting their team members with the technical aspects of their jobs, such as solutions, coding, and quality standards. As the tech lead, you will establish the technical direction of the project and clear hurdles that may arise, whether it be closing technical knowledge gaps, finding answers to product questions, or identifying opportunities to improve processes.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Be the technical lead for an agile development team, working closely with Product leads, Delivery leads, and Engineering Managers within a team of developers, SDETs, and QA personnel to groom, estimate, and solve projects.
  • Promote a positive engineering culture by embodying Trader's values of Curiosity, Integrity, Authenticity, Collaboration, and Pursuit of Excellence.
  • Help guide product ideas by assessing feasibility and providing creative technical solutions that address business, scalability, performance, quality, and security concerns.
  • Mentor colleagues of all skill levels to advance their technical abilities through code reviews, tech shares, pair programming, and onboarding of new hires.
  • Own and lead agile engineering ceremonies such as stand-ups, retrospectives, architecture/design reviews, and grooming as required.
  • Own best practices including but not limited to coding standards, branching strategies, code coverage metrics, code review policies, and release management, and review them regularly with the team.
  • Act as a bridge between developers and quality personnel within and across teams to facilitate alignment of work with a quality-first approach.
  • Act as an enthusiastic representative for Trader when working with external partners to design, build, and resolve issues with third-party integrations.
  • Participate in paid on-call rotation schedule to respond to alerts, as well as prioritize system improvements identified as part of monitoring.
  • Maintain and prioritize a backlog of Technical Debt items to enhance stability, performance, and extensibility.
Requirements:
  • Excellent communication skills: able to conceptualize a technical solution and relay it to both technical and non-technical teammates and stakeholders.
  • Passion for coaching and owning best practices within the team to foster a culture of engineering excellence.
  • Experience using .NET Web API and .NET Core to build cloud-based distributed applications, as well as a strong understanding of scalability, performance optimization, security considerations, and monitoring of such apps.
  • Experience with enterprise-scale high-velocity queues such as Microsoft Azure.
  • Expert-level experience developing in a microservice-oriented architecture utilizing RESTful APIs and tools such as Azure API Management and Azure Key Vault.
  • Strong knowledge of both relational and non-relational data stores such as Azure Table Storage, Blobs, Oracle, SQL, and Redis.
  • Experience using Front end tools (ie: Angular, HTML, or ) to build component-based frontend web apps.
  • Experience in building unit, component, and integration tests, and knowledge of how to use them as a system contract within internal services and across third-party integration boundaries.
  • Ability to work with source code management and delivery platforms such as Azure DevOps, JIRA, and SonarQube in a distributed team environment.
Requirements:
  • University Degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science or related subject.
  • 5+ years of engineering experience in the online software industry; strong knowledge of web-based application architectures using C# and .NET, Microsoft Azure cloud solutions and serverless technologies such as Function Apps, Web Apps, and Service Bus.
  • At least 1 year of proven experience in a technical leadership role Agile methodologies, Kanban preferable.
What's in it for you...

We understand that there is life at work and life outside of work. Here are a few benefits we all benefit from that support us to be our creative best.

Benefits:
  • Fitness and wellness: discounts to nation-wide gyms, onsite gyms (when we're in the office), an Employee and Family Assistance Program, as well as a virtual wellness program.
  • Benefits from Day 1: gym discounts, local in-office free gyms, Employee and Family Assistance program, weekly virtual wellness events.
  • Financial planning: let us help you invest in your future with 3% matching towards your pension and multiple forms of income protection.
  • Competitive salary: annual bonus structure, 3% CPP matching.

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