This is a flexible position and has the option of working in our Toronto office full time, hybrid throughout the week or working entirely remotely.
#LI-REMOTEVena Solutions is seeking a Technical Lead - Staff Software Developer who will act as an engineering team leader driving high-quality delivery of product improvements, while staying hands-on and contributing to the codebase for our cloud-native SaaS product. This role is a match for you if you are looking to combine your technical and leadership skills to enable a team of developers and work with them to deliver robust, performant and maintainable software!What you will do:
- Leads day-to-day engineering team operations, ensuring the team is delivering both impactful product improvements as well as improving the quality of the codebase in a sustainable manner
- Acts as the "architect within the team", in collaboration with Software Architects. Leads system design for major changes/improvements in alignment with overall software architecture strategy
- Solves the team's toughest technical challenges, enables others to help solve them when possible
- Works with Product Managers to ensure plans/roadmaps are achievable, deliveries are met, and team resource gaps are understood and addressed
- Reviews team epics and projects critically, ensure they’re appropriately broken down and prioritised, and well-understood by the team
- Mentors, coaches, and teaches others in coding best practices in an open and empathetic way, through pairing, code reviews, etc.
- Ensures long-term codebase health and ensure that tech debt issues are properly prioritized in quarterly and Sprint Planning
- Advocates for and executes development initiatives, best practices and coding standards
- May act as a Guild/Chapter Lead to drive broadly impactful functional improvements across the engineering department
Does this sound like you?
- 8+ years software development experience on server-side code
- 2+ year of experience leading a software development team as a Tech Lead (or playing the role informally)
- Strong experience with Java, or equivalent, as a primary language
- Demonstrated ability to mitigate risks in software development lifecycle
- Experience executing a SaaS product roadmap and improving software delivery
- Strong experience in mentoring and project planning
- Experience with Agile Software Development
- Excellent problem-solving, organisational, and communication skills
- Experience with Power BI development
- Stay updated on industry trends and advancements in BI, cloud, and DevOps technologies
- Experience recommending and implementing improvements to BI tools and processes
- Experience utilizing Azure cloud services to optimize data storage, processing, and analytics capabilities. Ensure the secure and compliant use of cloud technologies
