Senior Tech Lead

Summary

Join impact.com as a Tech Lead and focus on delivering epics through planning, designing, implementing, testing, and deploying. You will be self-sufficient, defining cloud services, implementing libraries, and solving problems independently. Experience across multiple languages, architectural patterns, testing, and complex integration frameworks is required. You will deliver independently, assist team members, and communicate effectively. Collaborate with the SSO to prioritize and understand product direction. Mentor junior staff and contribute to a positive team environment.

Requirements

• Initiative
• Adaptability
• Being a team player
• Personal Development
• Completed B.S. In Computer Science or related field or equivalent professional experience
• 8+ years experience: Java 8+ / PHP / JavaScript / TypeScript, SQL, Unix shell commands, version control, JDBC, OR Tools HTTP/Rest protocols, build tools (Gradle/Maven), CI (Jenkins/Bamboo/etc), JVM & Garbage collection, NOSQL & Data lakes, Cloud Computing, Load balancing
• Agile / Iterative processes. Kanban / Scrum
• Knowledge of Relational Databases, Table design, SQL
• TDD experience
• Continuous Integration / Delivery methods, tooling, integrations
• Experience working with Large Scale processing

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with a distributed team to fulfill the department's quarterly objectives
• Develop code both independently and while pair programming
• Write and maintain design, user, and test documentation
• Become familiar with the technologies used on the squad
• Perform triage functionality through verification and fixing of bugs
• Build customer and non-customer-facing code
• Support software testing and quality assurance processes to ensure high-quality deliverables
• Create SQL for Tech Updates and ensure this is ready for review
• Keeps technically abreast of trends and advancements within area of specialization, incorporating these improvements where applicable
• Review business needs, requirements, technical specifications
• Respond to alerts, review error messages, and fix bugs in a timely manner
• Mentor and give guidance to less senior staff to grow careers
• Perform code reviews
• Approve pull requests
• Perform point releases
• Maintain build- and stage stability
• Research and prototype new technologies
• Influence system wide architecture
• Evolve architecture
• Regularly review peer contributions and take part in constructive retrospectives to increase efficiency
• Actively contribute to and maintain technical documentation
• Follow technology trends and incorporate new promising technology as required to keep with the times
• Ability to assess, debug and resolve technical issues
• Contribute to creative solutions that help make the development process more efficient
• Elevated ownership of application stability

Preferred Qualifications

• Exposure and experience in any Google Cloud technology highly desired
• Experience in monitoring, alerting and production support
• Good understanding of JVM and Garbage Collection
• Knowledge of Digital Marketing is a big plus
• Exposure to front end technologies
• Experience Mentoring / Training teams
• Experience in taking ownership off larger pieces of work
• Proven track record of influencing architecture and inter-disciplinary dependencies

Benefits

• Remote first with roles being open to candidates who are eligible to work in Canada and are tax residents of Canada
• Strong extended health benefits, mental health support and support for new parents are provided to all employees on day-one of employment
• Health & Prescription coverage, vision and dental care, virtual health care, out of country medical coverage
• Insurance coverage (life, short term disability, long term disability, and more)
• Health Care Spending Account
• Two different Employee Assistance Programs
• We encourage our employees to take the time they need with unlimited time off
• The last two weeks of the year are also given as holiday to all employees
• Global holidays - We all celebrate a holiday a quarter where we all get the same day off
• Parental Leave Top-Up Program
• Flexible work hours
• Monthly Internet Allowance
• Technology Stipend
• Fitness Subsidy
• An employee-led culture team that plans inclusive events- meaning time together and other events to celebrate our many successes!
• An established company with a cool, high-velocity work ethos, where each person can make a difference!