Hootsuite is hiring a
Senior Principal Software Developer

Summary

Join Hootsuite as a Senior Principal Software Developer to lead the architecture and development of complex systems. You will advance our product's architecture, reliability, performance, and security. This role is open to applicants in Canada or the USA.

Requirements

• 20+ years of related experience
• Technical understanding and insight into a wide range of technical areas and recognized as industry leader in one or more areas
• Experience driving large scale service/microservices architecture from a system viewpoint
• Deep technical expertise in the continuous delivery of web and mobile software
• Expert level understanding of software reliability, performance, and security
• Advanced experience driving large changes across a service/micro-service oriented architecture
• Proficient in collaborating on business problems with peers across the organization including Product, Design, Ops, Program Management, etc. Ability to connect long term technical opportunities to business needs
• Effective in collaborating on business problems with non-technical leaders within and outside the organization
• Clearly conveys thoughts, both written and verbally, listening attentively and asking questions for clarification and understanding
• Ability to recognize and communicate broad technical issues and contribute ideas on how to resolve them
• Comfortable dealing with ambiguity and with high level goals
• Experience with mentoring, coaching, and pairing with senior individual contributors
• Demonstrates a desire to proactively help and serve internal and external customers meet their needs
• Consistently chooses the best course of action (from a number of alternatives) to address business problems and/or opportunities
• Asserts own ideas and persuades others, gaining support and commitment and mobilizing people to take action
• Proficient in conducting technical due diligence for M&A
• Uses an organized and logical approach to find solutions to complex problems. Looks beyond the obvious to understand the root cause of problems
• Ability to stay on top of technical direction/frameworks beyond Hootsuite and advocate for their adoption at Hootsuite

Responsibilities

• Responsible for Hootsuite System Architecture and provides leadership to build, implement and sustain architectural consistency across different portfolios
• Provide strategic and innovative thinking and set technical policy for Hootsuite. Enable product ecosystems and partner networks
• Research industry developments, new technologies and techniques, and propose candidate technologies that help distinguish Hootsuite products and provide a competitive advantage
• Develop strategies from the architectural perspective. Establish the 12-24 month technology roadmap in partnership with SVP and VPs
• Define technical road map for Hootsuite. Articulate and gain organizational alignment and commitment on the technical vision of Hootsuite with other principal/staff developers and technical leaders and managers
• Actively engage and provide insights to the Technical Architecture Group to deliver a long-term unified architecture that delivers on the objectives of the Product and Technology visions
• Responsible for technical due diligence of potential acquisitions targets. Provide complex analysis and strategic insights to executives and senior leaders
• Anticipate upcoming trends, technological advancements and align it with customer requirements for new products and technologies and influence the leaders to implement them
• Represent Hootsuite and serve as a spokesperson at external events, conferences about Hootsuite products and technologies
• Provide technical advice to senior leaders, act as a role model for the Software Development team, execute strategic, long term plans, and navigate many levels of the organization
• Advocate, improve and stand up for Hootsuite's tech principles. Coach and mentor Staff and Principal Developers across Hootsuite to grow the capacity and experience of the team
• Design, develop, enhance, build, deploy, and monitor processes with an emphasis on security, reliability and performance

Benefits

• Accommodations will be provided as requested by candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process
• Canada Pay Range For This Role: $217,600 - $304,800 CAD
• US Pay Range For This Role: $204,600 - $286,400 USD