Lead Software Developer

The Lead Software Developer is primarily responsible for designing, building and maintaining efficient, reusable, reliable code to develop high throughput, performance critical, scalable applications. Part of this role involves collaborating and building relationships with other software developers, engineers, and internal technical teams in a mentorship role, and contributing towards the development of the team’s roadmap.

As a Lead Software Developer your key area of responsibility will be designing, building and maintaining efficient, reusable, reliable code to develop high throughput, performance critical, scalable applications. You will be responsible for leading the development of scalable code, prototypes, and PoCs, taking ownership of complex, long-term projects, and ensuring timely delivery. You will need to work closely with other software developers, engineers, internal technical teams, cross-functional partners, product managers, and external stakeholders.

To be successful in this role you will be a strong team-player and mentor with an entrepreneurial mindset, comfortable working under pressure in a flat organization, and possessing excellent verbal and written communication skills to document complex technical systems. In addition, the successful candidate will have expert technical competence in design and architecture, exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills, and strong project management capabilities to manage multiple fast-changing priorities simultaneously. 

• Independently and proactively identify key areas of architecture improvement, including preparing proposals on achieving the improvements.
• Lead, oversee and plan the development of scalable code, prototypes, minimum viable products and PoCs.
• Take ownership of complex/ long-term projects and contribute to their implementation, including defining scope, requirements, communicating project progress, challenges and solutions, while ensuring timely delivery.
• Collaborate with other development teams on design and implementation of features spanning multiple products.
• Conduct comprehensive testing and code reviews to ensure that code quality is maximized and best-practices are followed.
• Provide expert project-leadership and guidance as a SME, to the department and larger organization.
• Contributes to defining strategic direction, planning the roadmap, and synthesizing feedback to ensure team success.
• Serve as a cross functional resource across team/department and products to contribute to solving technical issues in development.
• Builds relationships and serve as a technical point of contact partnering with stakeholders including customers, product managers, cross-functional partners, and external partners and other internal team members.
• Mentor other developers on the team and work with the team leads to set the direction of the team and guide key stakeholders on execution choices and trade-offs, and advise manager with insights and recommendations to improve the team.
• Appropriately document system design and architecture such that it is easy to understand, maintain and extend.
• Support Geotab global strategic initiatives.
• Participate in a 24x7 on-call rotating schedule (if applicable).
• Independently evaluate technical solutions, while contributing to the team roadmap
• Present and lead technical discussions and training at the department wide level. 
• Stay up to date on emerging technologies and changes in best practices in the development field and present them to senior leadership for consideration. 
• Write complex scalable, high quality and secure software in a variety of programming languages and environments, such as C#, JavaScript, SQL.
• Serve as a domain expert (ex GBQ), consulting in the area of expertise for the department and across the organization. 

• 7+ years of required of professional experience developing and supporting production software using C#/.NET, including object-oriented design
• Post-secondary Diploma/Degree with specialization in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent working experience.
• Experience diagnosing production issues using logs and tools such as BigQuery and Sentry.
• Proven expertise in design and architecture, particularly for large production systems spanning schedulers, report generation, templates, and dashboards.
• Experience with SQL Server and Postgres database design, optimization and writing queries.
• Knowledge of multiple front-end languages and libraries (e.g. HTML/CSS, JavaScript, XML, ES6, jQuery) and JavaScript frameworks (e.g. Angular, React, Node.js, Vue.js) and experience with UI/UX design .
• Expert knowledge with optimizing databases (e.g. MySQL).
• Proficiency in Git, or some other distributed source control tool, and are comfortable with resolving merge conflicts and renaming branches, etc.
• Repeated success with mentorship and development of employees, including serving as the mentor for various interns over several years. 
• High accuracy and meticulous attention to detail.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to problem-solve to well-judged decisions.
• Strong project management skills; able to identify needs, develop effective solutions and manage projects through to completion.
• A strong team-player with the ability to engage with all levels of the organization.
• Technical competence using software programs, including, but not limited to, Google Suite for business (Sheets, Docs, Slides).
• Able to research and solve open-ended design problems.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, ability to communicate and document complex technical systems and decisions.
• Highly organized and able to manage multiple tasks and projects simultaneously.
• Ability to work well under pressure and respond to multiple fast changing priorities.
• Entrepreneurial mindset and comfortable in a flat organization.