Senior Technical Team Leader

Senior Technical Team Leader

The Technical Team Leader will lead a team of approximately 6 Web Developers supporting and enhancing a unique Cloud application functioning as a data-gathering system in the agriculture space. This must be a very senior and deeply experienced Team Lead that must be equally strong as a very senior full-stack developer using Ruby on Rails.

This person will participate in high-level decision-making when it comes to architecture and product planning/road map and will contribute as a senior developer. As a developer, this person participates in all aspects of development including design, architecture, implementation, testing, bug fixing, and deployments, and is capable of working across our technology stack (including front-end, backend, UI/UX, database, APIs, and architecture).

The client, a boutique Calgary-based AgTech leader, has a long history of success with over 40+ years of being in business and whose product is currently being used in over 50 countries around the world. Does that say “stability” anyone?

MVP Talent Corp: MVP is a highly specialized niche recruitment company matching leading employers with top-quartile recruits. We work collaboratively with our clients in their hiring initiatives ensuring all parties are happy with the placement.

Must-Have Skills:

Previous Experience:

• At least 5-8 years of previous experience as a Technical Team Leader of software development teams leading cloud-based dev projects.
• Previous contributions to sophisticated cloud architecture
• Extensive (15 years +) of overall experience working in software development, with most of those years working with Ruby on Rails.
• AWS
• Extensive experience working as a full-stack developer, ideally with React or similar on the front end.
• Python programming language experience
• Extensive (10 years +) experience working with Ruby on Rails

Should have Experience with:

• Testing: Integration Testing
• HTML5, CSS, Javascript
• PostgreSQL or similar
• React or similar
• Continuous Integration Tools • bash • git and github • JIRA • Confluence • Artifactory
• Rabbit MQ
• Google protobuf • MQTT • WebSockets

Nice-to-Have's

Concepts: familiarity with:

• Automated testing with Rspec
• Agile Infrastructure • AWS and Cloud Services • Docker • Kubernetes
• Data Processing
• IoT
• API

General Duties:

• Participate in the software build and release process using github, CircleCI, Docker, Kubernetes, artifactory.
• Build and maintain highly reliable data processing modules.
• Troubleshoots and provides timely solutions to production issues.
• Solve complex technical issues with current product
• Relies on experience and problem-solving capability to identify and address technical challenges and trade-offs within the system.
• Monitor/investigate system and resource activity, error logs, and bug reports.
• Write controller tests to ensure outbound messages are correctly formed and encoded using rspec.
• Contribute to architecture and product road mapping
• Write integration tests to exercise API endpoints and verify expected results using rspec/rswag.
• Writes clean, maintainable code with accompanying tests.
• Promotes and demonstrates continuous learning; shares knowledge with colleagues to improve the overall capabilities of the team.
• Technical Team Leadership of a very good group of Cloud developers using Ruby on Rails.
• Participates in all aspects of the agile development process including iteration planning, estimation, architecture, code, and design reviews.
• Build and enhance tools to simulate hardware components with UA Expert and Python.
• Design reliable and efficient databases and queries.

PLEASE REVIEW THE Check List: In order to apply, you MUST Have:

1. VERY senior experience as a Technical Team Leader
2. Guru-like experience with Ruby on Rails and full-stack development
3. Any experience with Python

The client prefers a permanent, full-time person in the role but may consider a qualified consultant on a contract basis. This person can be based anywhere in North America.