Software Development Team Lead - REMOTE (12 Month Contract Term Employee)

Siemens Mobility; Fredericton; Remote; CAD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Siemens Mobility seeks a Software Development Team Lead for a remote role to oversee backend and frontend development, ensuring product quality and customer satisfaction. The position involves leading a team, mentoring junior developers, and solving complex engineering challenges in the EV charging market. This one-year contract role aims to optimize the development process and enhance collaborative work, contributing to Siemens' innovations in EV charging solutions.

Benefits

Flexible work environment

Opportunities for career advancement

Mentorship programs

Competitive rewards package

Profit sharing

Vacation entitlement

Employee perks and discounts

Diversity and inclusivity focused

Qualifications

• 2+ years proven experience leading a development team.
• Knowledge in object-oriented design and best practices.
• Experience in developing unit tests and CI/CD approaches.

Responsibilities

• Guide engineering efforts to solve complex engineering problems.
• Lead development of projects and mentor junior developers.
• Ensure high code quality and coverage metrics through unit tests.

Skills

Technical leadership

Domain-driven design

Analytical skills

Problem-solving

Agile Software Development

Communication skills

Mentorship

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering

Tools

Git

AWS

Jira

Redis

Kafka

Angular

Job description

About Depot360 AI

Siemens Depot360 AI is redefining the EV charging market for private and public fleets, including autonomous driving fleets, transit bus agencies, and municipal and private fleets. We are building the next level of charging as a service, taking complete ownership and control of the charging infrastructure, the scheduling of the vehicles, the cloud platform, and the utility meter – in order to provide the highest availability and resilience in the market. In this way, we will accelerate the adoption of electric-powered fleets by optimizing the delivery of power and making refueling seamless and efficient. By taking control of the utility meter, and optimizing EV charge rate and vehicle process flow, EV CaaS provides the lowest cost of electric fueling possible.

What will you do?

As Software Development Team Lead, you’ll have broad responsibilities and the opportunity to guide the development team tasks. Enhancing customer satisfaction and providing products that delight is our primary focus. You will lead the development team activities and work closely with a core team of backend developers and QA professionals to ensure the resulting product meets requirements, passes quality gates, scales as needed and is a joy to use. Note: This is a 1 year contract opportunity with possibility of an extension.

Responsibilities:

• Guide and contribute to engineering efforts to solve complex engineering problems.
• Be a technical leader, mentor, collaborator, and champion of best practices.
• Architect, design, develop and deploy microservices that process millions of IoT transactions.
• Participate in code reviews, retrospectives, and lunch-and-learns.
• Implement unit tests to ensure a high code quality and coverage metric.
• Work through debugging defects as identified and reported, identifying root cause and resolving to meet functional expectations.
• Investigate, debug and resolve system functionality and performance issues.
• Analyze requirements and breakdown tasks to be allocated across team members.
• Provide technical leadership to teammates through coaching and mentorship.
• Mentor junior developers to help them improve their coding practices.
• Lead development of projects.
• Work with clients on identifying and confirming the scope of projects.
• Investigate and resolve system functionality and performance issues.
• Lead both front-end and back-end developers.
• Complete and maintain documentation of continually improving user interface development processes.
• Monitor and communicate team status, raising issues and proposing resolutions.
• Be a valued member of an autonomous, cross-functional agile team.
• Remote role requiring availability, support, and start time of 9am Eastern Standard Timezone (EST)

Location: This is a REMOTE positionthat can be based anywhere in Canada only.

What will you need to succeed?

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent.
• 2+ years proven experience leading a development team; formal people leadership experience is essential.
• Several years of coding experience as an individual contributor.
• Expert in domain-driven design and distributed systems including caching (ie. Redis) and queuing (ie. Kafka) technologies.
• Knowledge in object-oriented design and best practices.
• Knowledge in the Angular framework and component-based architecture.
• Experience in developing unit tests, including mocking frameworks.
• Comfort with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) approaches.
• Expert knowledge and hands-on experience with Git, is essential.
• Experience working with agile development teams.
• Experience with AWS cloud technologies.
• Comfort with task tracking software such as Jira.
• Availability and willingness for support and start time of 9am Eastern Standard Timezone (EST).

Competencies:

• An aptitude for learning new languages.
• Results driven individual with strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
• Versatile and fast learner, with a passion for quality software and able to collaborate across teams.
• People leadership - effectively guide and influence team towards achieving organizational goals.
• Ability to schedule and prioritize for multiple assignments simultaneously.
• Take pride in your craft and understand what it means to ship high-quality code.
• Experience with Agile Software Development; Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) is critical.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills in English is essential.

Why you’ll love working for Siemens!

• Freedom and a healthy work- life balance– Embrace our flexible work environment with flex hours, telecommuting and digital workspaces.
• Solve the world’s most significant problems – Be part of exciting and innovative projects.
• Engaging, challenging, and fast evolving, cutting edge technological environment.
• Opportunities to advance your career and mentorship programs on a local and global scale.
• Competitive total rewards package.
• Profit sharing available.
• Rewarding vacation entitlement with the opportunity to buy and sell your vacation depending on your lifestyle.
• Contribute to our social responsibility initiatives focused on access to education, access to technology and sustaining communities and make a positive impact on the community.
• Participate in our celebrations, social events and offsite business events.
• Opportunities to contribute your innovative ideas and get paid for them!
• Employee perks and discounts.
• Diversity and inclusivity focused.

Siemens is proud to be an eight-time award winner of Canada’s Top 100 Employers, Canada’s Greenest Employers 2024, Canada’s Top Employers for Young People 2024 and Greater Toronto's Top Employers 2022.

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