Software Development Lead

What We Need
Corpay is currently looking to hire a Software Development Lead within our payments division. As a Software Development Lead, you will be responsible for leading a team of developers to build core feature set of Corpay payment processing system. You will provide technical leadership to an agile team to achieve growth, innovation, maintainability, and secure development practices. As a manager you will oversee planning and execution of product features, ensure the team follows best practices and perform required due diligence.

You are passionate about building new products, navigating business requirements, and turning them into technology solutions. Your responsibilities will include prototyping, designing, reviewing, maintaining, and unit testing code that you and your team will deliver to production environment.

This is a great opportunity to participate in cutting edge software development in the financial industry.

How We Work
As a Software Development Lead you will be expected to work out of our Toronto office location. Corpay will set you up for success by providing:

• Company-issued equipment
• Formal, hands-on training
• Assigned workspace in Toronto office location

Role Responsibilities
The responsibilities of the role will include:

• Working with business stakeholders to understand and resolve any technical questions.
• Breaking down tasks to meet deadlines and business goals.
• Mentoring and help your engineers grow.
• Maintaining high standard of code quality.
• Following best development practices and apply your experience to new and evolving environments
• Building and maintain robust and scalable code to support innovative features
• Improving system performance and reliability.
• Conducting code reviews and make technical contributions.
• Reviewing decisions the team makes to ensure alignment with the technical and architectural direction.
• Implementing and bring forth process improvements.
• Holding reviews with all members of your team. Give regular and clear feedback around an individual's performance.
• Taking part in our recruitment process, interviewing candidates, and onboarding new hires.

Essential Abilities And Attributes

• Solid understanding of software design principles with demonstrated analytical and problem-solving skills.
• A product-oriented mindset with a desire to understand core problem being solved.
• Experience in distributed software architecture and system design
• Commitment to quality and excellence
• Driven to improve performance and scalability of our system and process.
• Leading a small tightly knit team of developers.
• Experience in reducing ambiguity, scoping requirements, and estimating a given project and/or task.
• Proven ability to lead, mentor and grow a team.
• Quick learner & experience driving continuous improvement.

Qualifications& Skills

• B.S. in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience
• 5 to 7 years of experience working as a software development manager in a similar capacity.
• 10+ years of professional experience in a software engineering
• Experience in .NET design and development focusing on the line-of-business desktop and web applications.
• Strong knowledge of C#, JavaScript / TypeScript
• Strong knowledge of MS SQL Server and relational database design
• Experience in unit testing and test methodologies
• Experience working with external vendors and integrations is nice to have.
• Experience consuming and creating HTTP based web APIs
• Experience in financial industry, payments, foreign exchange, fintech is a plus

Benefits & Perks

• Comprehensive Benefits Package including, Medical, Dental, Vision and Paramedical benefits, as of day one
• Optional company match RRSP program
• Virtual fitness classes offered company-wide
• Time-off including major holidays, vacation, sick, personal, & volunteer time
• Discounted gym membership rate
• Philanthropic support with both local and national organizations
• Fun culture with company-wide contests and prizes

Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer
Corpay is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Corpay provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, gender (including pregnancy), religion, national origin, ancestry, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, language, ancestry, genetic information, veteran and/or military status or any other group status protected by federal or local law. If you require reasonable accommodation for the application and/or interview process, please notify a representative of the Human Resources Department.

For more information about our commitment to equal employment opportunity and pay transparency, please click the following links: Canadian Human Rights Act – Grounds of Discrimination and Employment Equity Act (Canada)