Staff Software Engineer

Toronto

Our is the fastest-growing Proptech company in the history of commercial real estate (CRE) who are transforming a $15 trillion dollar industry with their award-winning platform which is used to manage over 60% of all office buildings.

Headquarters are in NYC, with hubs in other major US cities, Toronto, CA, and London, UK.

Responsibilities

Identify, scope and lead large technical projects with high impact across many teams and key stakeholders
Play a critical role in planning, working closely with senior leaders to develop plans, resource requirements, and influence our long-term technical and business strategy
Lead the way by staying up to date with tools, trends, technologies and best practices, and then sharing that knowledge in a meaningful way to advance the overall state of technology for the entire organization
Lead by example and produce high-quality code that establishes coding standards and best practices for the team
Create technical requirements, software design specifications and other forms of architectural documentation
Support and mentor our senior engineers by being the go-to-person for questions but never be a bottleneck, see around the corner and anticipate engineers' needs, broadly distribute knowledge, and generally evangelize the platform
Scrutinize and reason clearly about the technology and architecture choices we make in building products/services. Ensure technical decision making aligns with our broad strategic initiatives.
Effectively communicate technical and business risks to stakeholders to ensure that the most informed decisions are being made

Qualifications:

Solid CS fundamentals with experience across a range of disciplines, with more than one area of deep knowledge and experience
8+ years of software engineering experience, with a proven track record of leading large-scale, high availability and fault-tolerant SaaS or consumer applications
Served as the technical lead for large complex projects that span multiple teams and functions.
Responsible for the technical roadmap for large business areas.
Ability to internalize the best ideas from all over the organization, while also setting a vision that others are excited to get behind.
Prefer simple solutions and designs over complex ones, and have a good intuition for what will last and scale.
Strong expertise in large scale distributed system designs
Demonstrated experience in upleveling engineering best practices and creating technical efficiencies across teams
Capable of driving and delivering thin slices of end-to-end functionality on a regular cadence with data-driven feedback loops
Strong problem-solving skills; adaptable, proactive and willing to take ownership and deal with ambiguity
The ability to work in a highly collaborative environment
Strong customer empathy and a focus on quality
Ability to create consensus among passionate stakeholders in a dynamic, fast-paced environment through excellent verbal and written communication skills

About Our Team

We have a 90+ person engineering team
We work in small, cross-functional teams that include product managers, designers, and QA
We value continuous learning in our everyday work
We rely heavily on automated testing and CI (CircleCI)
We use agile development and lean startup principles and practices to deliver products
Our stack: Ruby on Rails, React, Heroku, Postgres, AWS, Swift, Android

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