Remote Team Lead

Summary

Join our Mobile team as a Team Lead, Mobile Development and lead a team of talented developers to design, build, and ship high-quality products. In line with Hootsuite's distributed workforce strategy, this role offers remote work or a hybrid model.

Requirements

• A degree in Computer Science or Engineering, and significant relevant experience designing, developing and maintaining software including considerable experience developing native mobile applications or an equivalent level of work experience, and a track record of substantial contributions to software projects with high business impact
• Expertise in iOS (Swift, Objective C a plus, Apple and third-party frameworks) and/or Android (Kotlin, Java a plus, Google and third-party frameworks) development and knowledge of modern architecture patterns such as MVVM, MVI, Clean Architecture
• Experience with leading, mentoring, coaching, and pairing with coworkers
• Experience writing clean code that performs well at scale
• An understanding of SaaS software development practice, previous experience working on a SaaS product will be viewed favorably
• Collaboration and Teamwork: works with others to deliver results, meaningfully contributing to the team and prioritizing group needs over individual needs
• Creativity and Innovation: seeks new and better ways of doing things, generating original and imaginative ideas, products, and/or solutions
• Problem Solving: uses an organized and logical approach to find solutions to complex problems and looks beyond the obvious to understand the root cause of problems and proposes several possible solutions
• Priority Setting: focuses time/energy on the most important issues/opportunities. Clearly understand how to assess the importance of tasks and decisions
• Process/Project Management: skilled at figuring out and managing the processes and timelines necessary to get work accomplished
• Resilience, Tolerance for Change/Ambiguity: can effectively cope with change, finding ways to advance work and projects

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with and lead your team to design, build, test, and ship high-quality software to Hootsuite’s customers
• Share your iOS and/or Android development expertise while leading a team of iOS, Android and backend developers
• Facilitate ongoing development conversations with your team to support their learning and career growth
• Help shape your team's and Hootsuite’s technical roadmap
• Be a technical resource and sounding board; participate in technical interviews for development team hires
• Manage and coach a team
• Shape Hootsuite's culture, and your team's, through improved tooling, streamlining processes and working across product boundaries
• Establish and maintain high standards of security, reliability, scalability, performance, and quality in all delivered projects
• Proactively share information, actively solicit feedback, and facilitate communication for multiple stakeholders
• The technologies you will be working with: Swift, Kotlin, Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile, RxSwift/RxJava

Benefits

Accommodations will be provided as requested by candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process