Sr. Back End Development Manager
Askuity is seeking a Development Manager eager to join our growing team. As a member of the development team at Askuity, you will help drive the technical direction of our industry-leading analytics platform that has a meaningful and immediate impact on our growing customer base. As a Development Manager, you will lead the development team to balance short-term and long-term commitments and goals. You will be involved in a wide range of activities including coaching and mentoring developers, scoping project work for both business and technical aspects, collaborating with product and other stakeholders, and of course, hands-on development. If you’re committed to great work and are constantly looking for ways to improve the systems you are responsible for, then we’d love to hear from you.
What you’ll bring:
- Proven experience as a successful technical leader in a highly collaborative environment
- Experience recruiting, managing, mentoring, and developing a high performing development team
- Ability to coach developers, helping them improve their skills and grow their careers
- Foster collaboration between development teams to solve tough business and technical problems
- Strong, hands-on technical expertise and demonstrated ability to design and implement reliable, scalable, high performing solutions
- Experience building service-oriented architectures and web applications – we have a lot of things that are HTTP and REST-based
- Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills
- Proven experience working with GCP products, optimizing performance and costs
- A thirst to innovate with machine intelligence
- A self-starter attitude – at Askuity, the drive to do better and be better is baked into our culture
Experience with the following is a bonus:
- Functional programming – Scala, or experience with another functional language and/or concepts
- GCP – services and resources (experience with AWS is also a plus)
- SQL – PostgreSQL, Big Data
- DevOps – Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, pipelines
What we offer:
- Competitive salary and health benefits
- Spacious, collaborative workspace in the heart of the Toronto tech district
- Team lunches and an impressive lineup of snacks
- Weekly beer o’clock
- Ping pong and video games (and some seriously competitive gamers)
- Indoor bike parking