Team Lead - Toronto, Canada - Professional Alternative

Description

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Provide technical leadership to the web development team through the full software development lifecycle including handson design, development, and code review sessions.
• Ensure the development team delivers high quality software leveraging best practices, industry standards and best of breed tools.
• Be able to think BIG and deliver iteratively at the same time.
• Design and build solutions primarily using HTML/CSS, Javascript, and Angular. Some adoption of SQL Server and Azure technologies is also essential.
• Provide iterative technical and architectural guidance to others.
• Be great at communicating ideas, as well as considering other's ideas.
• Actively lead and participate in handson design, development, and code review sessions.
• Provide guidance on how to create easily testable and maintainable software.
• Work with the team to continually improve the CI/CD pipeline.
• Create and maintain documentation of infrastructure, best practices, and technical solutions.
• Socialize existing and new innovative technologies, trends, architecture patterns, best practices, and platform foundations.
• Rapidly build proof of concepts that quickly validates concepts and ideas.
• Ability to quickly learn new technologies.
• Strong written and verbal communications skills.

Capability Requirements - education, skills & experience:

• 3-5 years of hands-on experience in leading a development team including providing technical leadership, creating solution designs, guiding and mentoring junior team members.
• Ability to liaise with nondevelopment team leads in work prioritization, scoping & estimation and solutioning discussions.
• Full SDLC responsibilities including writing specs, designing and implementing code, testing, and deployments.
• BA/BS in Computer Science or related field and/or equivalent software development experience.

Experience ( > 5 years)

• Demonstrable expert knowledge of JavaScript: vanilla JS development, modern JS frameworks and tooling (Vue, React), familiarity with both ES syntax.
• Demonstrate expert knowledge in or similar
• Experience building apps for iOS and Android with hybrid app frameworks is a plus (e.g. PhoneGap, Ionic).
• Strong knowledge of design principles
• OOD, Design Patterns, Ntier architecture, TDD.
• Strong understanding of CMS systems (e.g. Drupal, Sitecore etc).

Experience ( > 3 years)

• Building client/server interactions using defined schemas such as JSON API.
• Experience in NodeJS framework & libraries, build tools and their role in the software deployment life cycle.
• Translating visual designs into HTML, CSS.
• Solid understanding and Exposure in MVC.
• Implementation experience of UX and UI integration with an emphasis on maximizing usability.

Able to deliver solutions using iterative software development methodologies like SCRUM, Kanban


Job Types:
Full-time, Permanent


Salary:
$115,000.00-$135,000.00 per year


Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday

Experience:

• Team Lead

Front End Development: 5 years (preferred)

• JavaScript: 4 years (preferred)
• JSON, jQuery, Vue, Angular, React: 5 years (preferred)