Software Development Manager

We are currently looking to fill a Software Development Manager for a client of ours located in Saint-Laurent, Quebec.

The Team:

Joining a dynamic and ambitious team of tech hungry developers, you will be working in an agile environment designing, maintaining, and evolving a multitude of platforms and products in a high availability environment where every millisecond count using a broad set of technologies. As the Softw ar e development manager, you will be overseeing multiple teams working in different technology stacks, ensuring best practices and communications b etween the involved parties on all the projects, you will also have a high-level view and make recommendations to improve and update different platf o rms.

Our teams work at a fast pace on awesome products that are constantly evolving in feature technology and traffic. So, we are looking for someone w h o can pick things up quickly. Your job will be dynamic, interesting, and challenging.

The Challenge

Take the role of technical leader working with passionate teams of engineers to tackle a multitude of different challenges ranging from scalability, cli e nt centric or architecture. Your challenges will be:

• Manage multiple engineering teams

    - Career path, evaluations, mentoring, objectives, hiring
	

• Ensures that projects are delivered on time and according to the requirements

• Acts as liaison between the Product management and your teams

• Work closely with the Director of engineering to design and architect solutions

• Performs organic analysis and participates in preliminary and functional analyzes

• Performs research necessary for the development and evolution of the system and recommendations.

• Transform complex requirement into simple, scalable, elegant solutions

• Implement and improve best practices

• Monitor application life cycle and releases

• Master the art of working with different projects, teams and technologies.

• Work with a skilled team of developers within a group dynamic setting

• Bring innovations and new solution to current and future challenges 

You are a great fit if:

• 3+ years of experience as a development manager

• 8+ years of experience as a back-end developer

    - SOA architecture
	
    - Server-side programming (Node.js |.NET|.NETCORE | Java)
	
    - C# .Net MVC
	
    - Docker or Kubernetes
	

• Experience establishing integration standards and related processes.

• Experience working in an Agile Scrum environment

• Experience in system architecture (creating diagrams and documentation)

• Help define/clarify user requirements/stories, designs, estimates and work plans.

• Learn and share new technology as per business needs

• Constantly Looking for new ways to improve our products.

• Manage application life cycle

• Analyze and resolve technical problems to implement features in existing products

• Follow Agile methodology with active participation in sprint planning, sprint review

• Must be detail oriented

• Good documentation habits

• Experience with workflow management tools (Jira, GitHub Workflow, TFS)

• Resourceful and dependable

Even better if you have:

• A worshiper of TDD

• Conceptual tool experience (UML Diagramming, Flow)

• Practical experience with SQL and or NoSQL (MySQL|MongoDB|SQL Server|MemSQL)

• Knowledge of Elastic search and Data Engineering pipelines (ETL, machine learning)

• Strong understanding of JavaScript, its quirks, and workarounds

• Strong knowledge of user-interface and information architecture principles

    - UI | UX & responsive design 
	
    - Understanding of cross-browser compatibility
	
    - General web functions and standards.
	

• Solid knowledge of web browser and its ecosystem (browser extensions)

• Knowledge of code signing and build scripts

• Security conscious development, experience working with pen testing and security auditing.

• Strong communication and conflict resolution skills.

Location:

The position is in Saint-Laurent, Montréal. (Remote work possible)

Company Benefits:

• Unplug: 3 weeks of vacation plus 1 week at Christmas.

• Annual Bonus: before Christmas Holidays

• Plan your perfect schedule: Flexible hours & summer hours.

• For your pension: RRSP contribution match program.

• Stay Healthy: Health, dental, vision & life insurance.

• Get Moving: Public transportation card.

• Save Up: RRSP contribution match program.

• Eat Up: Catered meals for lunch, bagels and cream cheese & barbecues all summertime.

• Buff Up: Gym and exercise reimbursements to keep you active.

• Hang Out: Happy hours with your colleagues, bingo, 5 to 7, etc.

• Stay Cool: A comfortable work environment.

• Get informed: Lunch & learn bi-monthly, webinars, etc.

• Personalized support: Coaching program.

• Stay healthy: Dialogue & tap medical: Free Medical assistance programs.

• Work life balance: Employees Assistance program Morneau Schepell.