Team Lead, Full Stack Development (remote)

Firmex is a global software-as-a-service provider with corporate headquarters in Toronto, Canada. The company’s Firmex VDR service is the world’s most trusted virtual data room, having been used by over 140,000 companies worldwide to share confidential documents for due diligence, litigation and compliance.

Our Full Stack developers use a mix of .NET, C#, AWS, Postgres, MS SQL, and MSMQ on the server, while using HTML5, CSS and JavaScript on the front-end. Other cutting edge techs we use to customize our applications also includes: PowerShell, Ruby, Jenkins, Git, Ansible, Nginx, and more!

The Full Stack Development Team Lead is responsible for providing technical leadership to an agile team with the aim of achieving its short- and long-term goals in the areas of: growth, scaling, maintainability, extensibility, security, performance, innovation, and process evolution. The Team Lead oversees the planning for all feature projects and ensures that team members follow correct agile processes and perform required due diligence in all phases, including planning, grooming, tasking, implementation, automation, documentation, formulation of test plans and verification. 

As our Team Lead, Full Stack Development you will:

• Collaborate with developers, product managers, software developers in tests, and other Agile teams to achieve innovative solutions to customer requirements.
• Directly manage and mentor reports across multiple technical disciplines such as developers, software developers in test and build and release engineers.
• Provide risk assessment and development alternatives for suggested business requirements.
• Maintain a critical eye toward existing systems and push the strategic repayment of technical debt through refactoring, code reviews, and component redesign when necessary.
• Periodically review development practices with other Team Leads and Director of Development.
• Keep abreast of developments and evolution in available tooling and help bring our processes in line with industry best practices.
• Focus on security and secure coding practices.
• Drive and actively participate in the code/security review process for the team and the organization as a whole.

What you'll need to be successful as a Team Lead, Full Stack Development:

• Degree in Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent work experience.
• 7+ years of software development focused on SaaS applications, at least 1-2 years as a Lead.
• Extensive Agile experience building complex, rich SaaS applications.
• Ability to diagnose, locate, and quickly fix run-time issues related either to UI, data, DB, or web stack.
• Extensive knowledge of C#, .NET MVC, SQL Server, PostgreSQL.
• Extensive knowledge and experience with a cloud provider, AWS preferred or Azure.
• Ability to express complex designs concisely through flow diagrams, process descriptions, and technical documentation.
• Very strong communication skills.
• Ability to mentor and provide technical direction to team members and to regularly provide them with feedback.