TRADER Corporation is a trusted Canadian leader in online media, dealer and lender services. The company is comprised of AutoTrader.ca, AutoSync and Dealertrack Canada. AutoTrader.ca (AutoHebdo.net in Quebec) offers the largest inventory of new cars and used cars in Canada, receiving over 25 million monthly visits to its marketplace. With over 3,500 subscribers and counting, AutoSync is the largest and fastest growing dealer and OEM software provider in Canada. The platform's suite of connected automotive software solutions brings advertising, conversion and operational support together, synchronizing the entire retail process. AutoSync's diverse range of offerings includes: vAuto, EasyDeal, xtime, Motoinsight, Activix, TAdvantage and TRFFK. Dealertrack is Canada’s largest automotive financing portal, enhancing efficiency and profitability for all major segments of the automotive, marine, recreational vehicle, motorcycle and powersport retail industries. Over 6.5 million credit applications are submitted via the Dealertrack Canada portal each year. Collateral Management is a national, end-to-end, managed technology solution that offers industry insight and multi-channel collection strategies to maximize funds recovered. Collateral Management helps you remain compliant in all jurisdictions, alleviating your exposure to reputational and financial risks. Visit tradercorporation.com to learn more..
We are looking for a Tech Team Lead for the largest automotive product suite in Canada.
Responsibilities:
- Contribute to the technical direction of one or more parts of our technology.
- Actively find and apply the best practices to your own work and the work of others.
- Raise the standards of your team and the entire Engineering organization by sharing knowledge, tools and best practices.
- Seek improvements and facilitate progress.
- Mentor other engineers on your particular strengths and areas of expertise, beyond your immediate team.
- Perform timely and thorough code reviews to improve the quality of the codebase.
- Advocate for sustainability in the maintenance of the technologies you lead.
- Reduce complexity through architectural thinking.
- Analyze requirements and design technical solutions, engaging your peers to find the best approach to a problem. Support other engineers in the same process.
- Help maintain the reliability and stability of production systems. Collaborate in debugging and fixing issues in the event of critical incidents.
- Participate actively in daily ceremonies, presenting your progress, questions and suggestions as they come up.
- Help the team create world-class digital solutions in our agile environment by leading a team of engineers and collaborating with experienced product leaders.
- Hands-on mentoring and coaching of team members. Help them achieve their best result by removing impediments and supporting their technical and professional growth.
Who you are:
- A generalist who enjoys designing and implementing solutions across both frontend and backend to solve complex problems in different products.
- You simplify things that are complicated.
- See value in being a polyglot programmer.
- You take the strengths of different technologies and use them to your advantage where they are most appropriate.
- Establish, follow and improve best practices at all stages of the software development lifecycle.
- Have a strong sense of product and code quality, and engineering excellence.
- You invest your energy to learn and innovate.
- Have a pragmatic mindset, and can propose, discuss and analyze trade-offs to reach your goals. You can tell what must be perfect from what must get done, and adapt quickly to changing circumstances.
- You communicate effectively verbally and in writing. You make sure to avoid misunderstanding, and build trust by being inclusive, candid and sincere.
- You are open and transparent when there are problems.
- You have a good balance between autonomy and team work, and know how to delegate.
Minimum requirements:
- 6+ years of experience in full time software development or technical leadership roles.
- You have a strong technical background and understanding of software architecture, distributed systems, system design and design patterns.
- Proficient in C#/.NET, Python is a bonus.
- Knowledge of modern cloud infrastructure and tools.
- Experience developing in a service based application environment, designing and building APIs, building optimized UIs.
- Solid approach to testing and ensuring code quality.
- Experience with SQL and NoSQL data stores like Postgres, Mongo and Redis.
- Experience managing a team of direct engineering reports. A hands-on leader, mentor, and coach to development team members.
What’s in it for you…
-We understand that there is life at work and life outside of work. Here are a few benefits we all benefit from that support us to be our creative best.
Fitness and wellness
-We provide discounts to nation-wide gyms, onsite gyms (when we’re in the office), an Employee and Family Assistance Program, as well as a virtual wellness program.
Benefits from Day 1
-Gym discounts
-Local in-office free gyms
-Employee and Family Assistance program
-Weekly virtual wellness events
-Conferences & training budget
-Regular internal training programs
Financial planning
-Let us help you invest in your future with 3% matching towards your pension and multiple forms of income protection.
Competitive salary
-Annual bonus structure
-3% CPP matching
