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Team Lead, Engineering
Location
Canada
Posted
24 days ago
Salary
$150K - $170K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Team Lead, Engineering
Zensurance
• Collaborate with Engineering Leadership - other team leads and engineering managers - on cross-team engineering topics such as goal setting and best practices. • Coach and mentor team members to foster a self-organizing and cross-functional team. • Identify areas of improvement and growth for your direct reports and measure their progress toward their objectives over time. • Develop and monitor team goals and performance metrics. • Work with the Product Manager and team members to ensure business requirements are understood and broken down into actionable tasks that can be estimated by the development team. • Work with your team to develop, define, and maintain your team charter. • Promote knowledge sharing and an open, safe work environment. • Discuss strategy and outline tradeoffs of potential software solutions. • Collaborate with project stakeholders and the dev team to design and build scalable, user-friendly systems for our customers and in-house tooling. • Understand the processes and the workflows necessary to implement, test, deploy, monitor and release features and fixes. • Evaluate, define, and implement monitoring strategies and contingency plans for areas of the platform that rely on third-party vendors. • Perform administrative functions such as reviewing and writing reports, approving expenditures, enforcing rules, and writing up reviews or recommendations. • Foster an environment of continuous learning and improvement. • Attend and participate in leadership development training programs (internally and externally).
Job Requirements
- University degree or college diploma in a recognized technical, vocational or academic program (preferably in Engineering or Computer Science) or equivalent work experience.
- 7+ years of work experience in a software engineering or development capacity.
- 2+ years of experience managing other developers on a product team.
- Experience with management tools such as goal-setting frameworks (i.e., OKRs, SMART goals).
- Experience in giving and receiving constructive feedback, conducting performance management, coaching and mentoring less experienced professionals and effectively delegating work.
- Ability to make decisions and drive results in ambiguous situations.
- Experience with the following concepts and technologies: JavaScript ecosystem (PostgreSQL, NodeJS and TypeScript), AWS, Microservices, Micro-Frontends, Queues, Caches, REST APIs, gRPC and WebSockets.
- A passion for clean, reusable, and well-structured code.
Benefits
- Remote-first setup for added flexibility
- Home office allowance to create a comfortable workspace
- Top-tier tech: "Office in a box" with all necessary tech equipment
- Half days before public holidays: Enjoy half days before long weekends
- Flexible health and dental plans for families, including mental health support
- Health & personal spending accounts to invest in wellness your way
- Parental leave top-up, because family comes first
- Education assistance reimbursement for courses, conferences, books, and memberships
- Opportunities to learn from industry experts and grow your career
- Weekly Friday huddles to share updates and connect across teams
- Virtual & in-person team-building events to strengthen our culture
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