Technical Manager - Vancouver, Canada - EarthDaily Agro

Description

Vancouver, BC, Canada

Full Time

Engineering and Product

Manager/Supervisor


OUR VISION

At EarthDaily Analytics we strive to build a more sustainable planet by creating innovative solutions that combine satellite imagery of the Earth, modern software engineering, machine learning, and cloud computing to solve the world's toughest challenges in agriculture, water management, carbon capture verification and more.

Our focus has been on building the world's most advanced satellite image processing pipelines capable of delivering automated, reliable, meaningful analytics from our customers' satellites and our own.

Our belief is that insights can only be as good as the data itself and we pride ourselves on generating the highest quality data products in the industry.

OUR TEAM

We're a multidisciplinary team of software engineers with backgrounds in Geography, Physics, Computer Science, Atmospheric Studies, Mathematics, Cloud Infrastructure, Industrial Design, and Aerospace Engineering among others.

Our diversity is core to our success in building the most innovative technologies on (and off) the planet.

Our team of experts have developed the world's first colour HD video from space, developed the processing pipelines for some of the most well-known commercial satellites, and have built the world's first automated Satellite Processing service which is being applied partner satellites and our upcoming constellation.

Our Software Engineers embrace a DevOps culture, work as a highly collaborative team in an agile based iterative development environment and are leading the next revolution in satellite-based Earth Observation remote sensing through problem solving, growth and ownership.

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PREPARE FOR IMPACT

As a Technical Manager (Backend) you will have overall technical and managerial responsibility to lead a team of talented engineers and successfully deliver business critical software systems that supports EarthDaily Analytics Ground Segment for Earth Observation satellite sensors (present, future and 3rd party).

You will be involved with the following high impact activities:

• Lead, mentor and manage a team of Software Engineers to successfully deliver against business goals
• Owns the team's product (infrastructure, system and documentation) and is the technical authority for the team's design and development choices
• Define, evaluate, prototype, design, architect, implement, test and validate new/existing data management (including API and database) systems, services and software/infrastructure capabilities
• Conduct quarterly product roadmap planning, biweekly sprint planning and lead the team to successfully execute against the plan
• Mentor and train fellow software / engineers on software development best practice
• Manage software engineers and provide guidance towards their career development
• Conduct and participate in technical and interface discussions, design review, code review and feature verification with other team members.
• Support technology and business development discussion to advise on and influence the longterm Product Roadmap

YOUR PAST MISSIONS

• Degree in Computer Science, Math, Physics, Engineering or equivalent

- +1 for higher level degrees

• 10+ years of overall professional experience in a Software Engineering role with a proven track record of delivering data management (including API and database) software systems for mission critical projects

- +1 for Earth Observation system experience

• 5+ years of experience developing, debugging and operating distributed software systems deployed within a cloudbased environment (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP)
• 5+ years of experience leading, managing and mentoring a moderate to large agile backend/full stack software engineering team (4+ people)

- +1 for Agile SCRUM experience
- +1 for staff augmentation experience

• Experience in large scale data management systems containing APIs and databases.
• Experience in backend / full stack development
• Experience practicing DevOps and CICD

- +1 for DevSecOps

• Experience in leading technological advancement of existing capabilities

YOUR TOOLKIT

• Excellent skills in at least one modern programming language (e.g., python, c++, java, go, etc)
• Excellent knowledge in RDBMS and/or NoSQL database technologies

- +1 Working knowledge of geospatial concepts (including geospatial enabled databases)

• Excellent knowledge in API development
• Excellent knowledge in Docker / Container technologies

- +1 Working knowledge serverless design paradigm

• Excellent analytical, problem solving, debugging, and troubleshooting skills
• Excellent objectoriented and testdriven design skills
• Excellent knowledge of software systems architecture and patterns
• Excellent knowledge on costeffective, scalable, reliable and secured cloud architectural concepts

- +1 for AWS specific architectural and implementational knowledge

• Working knowledge in CICD, Configuration Management, Scal