Director, Software Engineering

Kount; Toronto; On-site; CAD 100,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is looking for a dynamic Director of Software Engineering to lead a talented team in developing innovative cloud-native solutions. This role involves hands-on development and strategic oversight, focusing on building scalable microservices and fostering strong relationships with stakeholders. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in software engineering, particularly with Python and Java, and will demonstrate exceptional leadership and communication skills. Join a forward-thinking company where you can make a significant impact on exciting projects and drive technological advancements in a collaborative environment.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience with cloud-native solutions.
• Strong leadership and communication skills with a focus on team management.
• Experience in full stack development and microservices architecture.

Responsibilities

• Manage and mentor technical teams to deliver complex software solutions.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to define and implement technical strategies.
• Drive technical documentation and ensure compliance with development standards.

Skills

Python

Java

Angular JS

Google Cloud

Kubernetes

Airflow

Jenkins

Jira

Confluence

Data concepts

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Jenkins CI/CD

Terraform

Helm Charts

Google Fire Store

Big Table

Apache Beam

Git

Maven

Gradle

Job description

Synopsis of the role

Equifax is seeking creative, high-energy and driven Director, Software Engineering with hands-on development skills to work on a variety of meaningful projects. Our software engineering positions provide you the opportunity to join a team of talented engineers working with leading-edge technology. You are ideal for this position if you are a forward-thinking, committed, and enthusiastic software engineer who is passionate about technology.

What you’ll do

• Demonstrate a deep understanding of cloud native, distributed micro service based architectures

• Strong knowledge with Python, Java, Angular JS, Google Cloud (or similar Cloud experience), Kubernetes, airflow, Jenkins, Jira Confluence, Google Fire Store, Big Table and Data concepts.

• Deliver solutions for complex business problems through software standard SDLC

• Build strong relationships with both internal and external stakeholders including product, business and sales partners

• Demonstrate excellent communication skills with the ability to both simplify complex problems and also dive deeper if needed

• Build and manage strong technical teams that deliver complex software solutions that scale

• Manage teams with cross functional skills that include software, quality, reliability engineers, project managers and scrum masters

• Provide deep troubleshooting skills with the ability to lead and solve production and customer issues under pressure

• Leverage strong experience in full stack software development and public cloud like GCP and AWS

• Mentor, coach and develop junior and senior software, quality and reliability engineers

• Lead with a data/metrics driven mindset with a maniacal focus towards optimizing and creating efficient solutions

• Ensure compliance with EFX secure software development guidelines and best practices and responsible for meeting and maintaining QE, DevSec, and FinOps KPIs

• Define, maintain and report SLA, SLO, SLIs meeting EFX engineering standards in partnership with the product, engineering and architecture teams

• Collaborate with architects, SRE leads and other technical leadership on strategic technical direction, guidelines, and best practices

• Drive up-to-date technical documentation including support, end user documentation and run books

• Lead Sprint planning, Sprint Retrospectives, and other team activity

• Responsible for implementation architecture decision making associated with Product features/stories, refactoring work, and EOSL decisions

• Create and deliver technical presentations to internal and external technical and non-technical stakeholders communicating with clarity and precision, and present complex information in a concise format that is audience appropriate

What experience you need

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

• 7+ years of software engineering experience

• 3+ years experience (hands-on) with Python, Java, Angular JS, Google Cloud (or similar Cloud experience), Kubernetes, airflow, Jenkins, Jira Confluence, Google Fire Store, Big Table and Data concepts.

• 3+ years experience writing, debugging, and troubleshooting code in mainstream Java, SpringBoot, TypeScript/JavaScript, HTML, CSS

• 7+ years experience with Cloud technology: GCP, AWS, or Azure

• 7+ years experience designing and developing cloud-native solutions

• 7+ years experience designing and developing microservices using Java, SpringBoot, GCP SDKs, GKE/Kubernetes

• 7+ years experience deploying and releasing software using Jenkins CI/CD pipelines, understand infrastructure-as-code concepts, Helm Charts, and Terraform constructs

What could set you apart

• Self-starter that identifies/responds to priority shifts with minimal supervision.

• Strong communication and presentation skills

• Strong leadership qualities

• Demonstrated problem solving skills and the ability to resolve conflicts

• Experience creating and maintaining product and software roadmaps

• Experience overseeing yearly as well as product/project budgets

• Working in a highly regulated environment

• Experience designing and developing big data processing solutions using Dataflow/Apache Beam, Bigtable, BigQuery, PubSub, GCS, Composer/Airflow, and others

• UI development (e.g. HTML, JavaScript, Angular and Bootstrap)

• Experience with backend technologies such as JAVA/J2EE, SpringBoot, SOA and Microservices

• Source code control management systems (e.g. SVN/Git, Github) and build tools like Maven & Gradle.

• Agile environments (e.g. Scrum, XP)

• Relational databases (e.g. SQL Server, MySQL)

• Atlassian tooling (e.g. JIRA, Confluence, and Github)

• Developing with modern JDK (v1.7+)

• Automated Testing: JUnit, Selenium, LoadRunner, SoapUI

Primary Location: CAN-Toronto-5700 Yonge

Function: Function - Tech Dev and Client Services

Schedule: Full time