Hootsuite is hiring a
Staff Software Developer

Summary

Join our team as a Staff Software Developer and help champion the advancement of our product's quality, performance, and security. You'll work on complex technical problems across multiple teams, searching for solutions to empower our teams to iterate faster. This role is open to applicants in Canada or the US, with a flexible work arrangement allowing remote work or a hybrid model.

Requirements

• Professional and specialized experience in your field, with a minimum of 2 roles or companies building your experience base
• Experience in leading the design, development, and deployment of multiple systems or products
• Ability to think in terms of optimal technical solutions for business problems
• Effective in collaborating on business problems with non-technical peers in the organization
• Experience with mentoring, coaching, and pairing with coworkers
• Experience conducting technical interviews with developers at various levels of experience
• Ability to plan, articulate and gain organizational alignment on a technical vision
• Ability to stay on top of technical direction/frameworks beyond Hootsuite and advocate for their adoption at Hootsuite
• Proven ability to deliver both customer value and innovative technical solutions
• Ability to recognize and communicate broad technical issues and contribute ideas on how to resolve them
• Open Communication: clearly conveys thoughts, both written and verbally, listening attentively and asking questions for clarification and understanding
• Decision Making: consistently chooses the best course of action (from a number of alternatives) to address business problems and/or opportunities
• Influence: Asserts own ideas and persuades others, gaining support and commitment and mobilizing people to take action
• Priority Setting: focuses time/energy on the most important issues/opportunities. Clearly understand how to assess importance of tasks and decisions
• Problem Solving: uses an organized and logical approach to find solutions to complex problems. Looks beyond the obvious to understand the root cause of problems

Responsibilities

• Provide technical guidance and leadership through the design, implementation and delivery of large technical projects that cross-cut products
• Conduct directed research and technical analysis of new candidate technologies that fill a development team’s business or technical need
• Provide technical advice, act as a role model for your teammates, flawlessly execute complicated plans, and navigate many levels of the organization
• Contribute to, define and track project level work on large technical projects while ensuring visibility to team
• Deliver technical training on your portions of the Hootsuite technology & product stack
• Contribute enhancements to development, build, deployment, and monitoring processes with an emphasis on security, reliability and performance
• Deliver process improvements which increases ease of adoption and implementation by your entire team
• Participate in the development of the technical hiring process and interview scripts with an aim of attracting and hiring the best developers

Benefits

• Accommodations will be provided as requested by candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process
• $123,000 - $172,400 CAD (Canada Pay Range For This Role)
• $130,000 - $182,000 USD (US Pay Range For This Role)