Lead the Accounts Tooling and Automation Team at a fast-growing Canadian InsurTech. Mentor engineers, drive technical decisions, and build scalable systems using TypeScript, NestJS, React, and AWS microservices.
University degree in Engineering or Computer Science or equivalent work experience
7+ years of software engineering or development experience
2+ years managing developers on a product team
Experience with goal-setting frameworks such as OKRs or SMART goals
Experience giving and receiving constructive feedback and conducting performance management
Ability to make decisions and drive results in ambiguous situations
Experience with JavaScript ecosystem including PostgreSQL, NodeJS and TypeScript
Experience with AWS, Microservices, Micro-Frontends, Queues, Caches, REST APIs, gRPC and WebSockets
Passion for clean, reusable, and well-structured code
Collaborate with Engineering Leadership on cross-team engineering topics and best practices
Coach and mentor team members to foster a self-organizing and cross-functional team
Identify areas of improvement and growth for direct reports and measure their progress
Develop and monitor team goals and performance metrics
Work with Product Manager to ensure business requirements are understood and broken down
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 stakeholders to design and build scalable, user-friendly systems
Understand processes and workflows to implement, test, deploy, monitor and release features
Evaluate, define, and implement monitoring strategies for third-party vendor dependencies
Perform administrative functions such as reviewing reports and approving expenditures
Foster an environment of continuous learning and improvement
Attend and participate in leadership development training programs
Reports directly to the Director of Engineering
Part of a scaling application solution at a fast-growing InsurTech
Twice-yearly company-wide hackathons for experimentation and innovation
Well-defined growth tracks for clear career progression
Weekly Friday huddles and virtual and in-person team-building events
Power-Ups, book clubs, tech talks, and hackathons for knowledge sharing
Training budgets and professional development programs available
AI scribe used for interview notes to ensure fair evaluation process
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