Our client is a successful mid-size software company which fosters an amazing work environment and is located in the heart of downtown Toronto. They have engaged ROSS (www.getROSS.com) to help them recruit a Team Lead, Platform. ROSS is a team of People Specialists helping companies align their People Strategy with their business growth. We provide remote or onsite HR and Recruitment solutions such as Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) and Recruitment Augmentation.

Our client’s platform contains a collection of self-service consoles and RESTful APIs. As the Team Lead you and your 10-member team will be responsible for the design, implementation and delivery of the platform. This is a new leadership role that is strategically important to our client’s long term growth plans.

Reports To:

• Chief Technology Officer

Responsibilities:

• Driving day-to-day development activities of two, five-person development teams in close collaboration with technical leaders, scrum masters and product managers
• Working closely with fellow team leads, principal engineers, the Director of Software Engineering and the CTO to define the company's technical direction
• 20% of your time spent hands-on-keyboard writing code

Qualifications:

• At least 3 years of experience managing and leading a software development team, ideally in an Agile environment
• Comfortable coding in your high level language of choice – Python or Java preferred
• Experience with development in presentation, business logic and database tiers
• SQL database development experience is a must and NoSQL highly desirable
• Understanding of and experience using or building self-service RESTful APIs
• Experience with and belief in automated testing and continuous integration
• Nice to have: experience building or using transactional e-commerce platforms
• Very strong communication and problem solving skills
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent

Benefits & Perks

• Casual dress, every day of the week!
• Beer cart Fridays: free beer and snacks!
• Awesome loft-like workspace, with ping pong, foosball, lunch room and a rooftop patio
• Flexible work hours
• Team events: bowling, paintball, drinks, patio potluck
• Great central location downtown, in the trendy Entertainment District
• Opportunities to continuously challenge yourself, innovate and improve

If you're not interested, but know someone who is, please help a current or former colleague in their career development by referring them. In addition, we're happy to give you a $800 referral fee.

Click http://www.getROSS.com/referral_fee.php for more details.

 

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