Technical Lead, Software Engineering

We are 3PILLAR GLOBAL
Position within Toronto.
We build breakthrough software products that power digital businesses. We are an innovative product development partner whose solutions drive rapid revenue, market share, and customer growth for industry leaders in Software and SaaS, Media and publishing, information services, and retail.

Our key differentiator is our product mindset. Our development teams focus on building outcomes, and all of our team members around the globe are trained on the product mindset's core values: – time to Value, Solve For Need, and Excel at Change. Our teams apply this mindset to build digital products that are customer-facing and revenue-generating. Our business-minded approach to agile development ensures that we align with client goals from the earliest conceptual stages through market launch and beyond.

Key Responsibilities:

• Independently guide the technical direction and implementation by the whole team within defined architecture in all stages from conceptualization to deployment.
• Evaluate trade-offs between correctness, robustness, performance, and customer impact to ensure the development of the right solution, with client success at the forefront.
• Create and lead the team's technical documentation and repository management practices, including tasks such as creating branches, pull requests, merges, etc.
• Collaborate with product, design, and engineering teams to provide necessary oversight of architecture and dependencies influencing product strategy and direction.
• Contribute to code reviews, documentation, and addressing complex bug fixes with a focus on security, performance, and reliability.
• Be an active leader in the Engineering Practice community, mentoring Senior Engineers and others through Communities of Practice (CoPs) or on project teams, supporting the growth of technical capabilities.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Need someone who knows Visual Basic or C++ programming to rebuild in a more modern language. It is not a web application. Looking for someone who understands and has previous experience in low-level languages who can either rebuild the application or redocument it so that it can be rebuilt.
• Compile a legacy app that is in Visual Basic, and decompile it in assembler, then rebuild that assembler back into a modern language.
• A minimum of 7+ years of experience/expertise working with proficiency in the specified technologies.
• Required:
• Professional background in Systems Engineering.
• Proven ability to work with legacy systems, specifically Visual Basic 6.0 (VB6), including DLLs and OCX controls.
• Proficiency in modern C++ development for high-performance applications.
• Demonstrated experience designing, building, and integrating with RESTful APIs.
• Expert-level skills in reverse engineering, including software disassembly, protocol analysis, and the use of decompilers for EXE files.
• Experience implementing and maintaining event automation systems.
• Strong understanding of Ethernet communication protocols and networking principles.
• High level of English proficiency required to interact with a globally-based development team.
• Experience leading Agile software development methodologies.
• Demonstrated experience following and adapting high-level architecture to project and client needs.
• Ability to verify/validate architecture implementations and influence overall architecture beyond the team.
• Expertise in applying object-oriented programming, with preferred experience in languages like Java/C#.High-level design proficiency following UML / C4 / ArchiMate.
• Experience in effectively working collaboratively among relevant information stakeholders to create and implement well-tested, scalable, secure, and performant enterprise-level systems that ultimately deliver the client's desired business outcome.
• Demonstrated initiative in mentoring other engineers and decision-makers throughout the organization.
• Very good knowledge of architectural styles and design patterns, SOLID principles and OWASP.

Additional Experience Desired:

• Familiarity with serial communication protocols like RS-232.
• Experience with industrial fieldbus protocols such as Profibus or Interbus is a significant plus.
• Ability to set technical strategy and direct implementation across several teams/whole product.
• Ability to refine and clarify technical details (including definition of done) based on internal or external PO for User Stories and task assignments.
• Ability to provide technical orchestration among the overall tasks.Experience in building CI/CD pipelines.
• Knowledge of building Cloud Native applications.

Benefits:

• Vacations. According to the law from your first anniversary.
• Discretionary Time Off (employees are able to take time off when necessary)*
• 26 days of Christmas bonus
• Food coupons
• Major medical insurance
• Life Insurance (optional)
• Savings box (optional)
• Law benefits: IMSS, Afore, Infonavit.
• Career plan that will let you grow and plan for the future
• Home Office
• Internal Trainings
• Support with external trainings and certifications
• Referrals bonus