Tech Lead (Remote First)

4 months ago

Toronto, CanadaStaff+

Responsibilities

Design, build, and implement scalable full-stack applications and libraries using Node, React, and TypeScript.
Guide technical direction, analyze requirements, evaluate architecture tradeoffs, and provide recommendations to stakeholders and engineering teams.
Break roadmap initiatives into epics and actionable backlog tickets in collaboration with Product Management.
Design and implement systems and infrastructure based on technical direction from Staff Developers.
Integrate and optimize third-party systems while monitoring reliability, performance, security, and service continuity.
Conduct code reviews, write unit and higher-level tests, and improve testing strategies using quality metrics and accepted testing frameworks.
Prioritize technical debt and bugs, support incident-related improvements, and promote iterative deployment practices.
Coach and mentor developers, document technical decisions, and foster continuous learning and improvement.
Ensure developed systems meet standards for accessibility, performance, security, maintainability, operability, observability, and correctness.
Debug application issues systematically and produce production-ready, understandable, and testable code.

University degree or college diploma in a recognized technical, vocational, or academic program, or equivalent work experience.
At least 7 years of experience building complex, scalable APIs and integrating third-party APIs.
At least 5 years of experience building front-end web applications with modern JavaScript frameworks.
At least 2 years of experience designing scalable and distributed systems.
Experience mentoring developers and architecting or augmenting large software systems.
Extensive full-stack experience with React, Redux, Node, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, and JavaScript.
Experience with Scrum, Agile methodologies, DORA metrics, and communicating engineering performance measurements.
Experience with Webpack, Babel, Storybook, unit testing frameworks such as Jest and Mocha, microservices, and micro-frontends.
Preferred experience with Cypress, Nightwatch, Selenium, BrowserStack, Terraform, Pulumi, AWS, Docker, or Kubernetes.

Remote-first work arrangement within Canada.
Home office allowance and an office-in-a-box package with necessary technology equipment.
Half days before public holidays.
Flexible health and dental plans, mental health support, health and personal spending accounts, and parental leave top-up.
Education assistance reimbursement for courses, conferences, books, and memberships.
Mentorship, professional development programs, training support, defined career growth tracks, tech talks, book clubs, hackathons, and team-building events.
Weekly Friday huddles and virtual and in-person team-building activities.

201-500 employees