Engineering Manager

Overview:

Guidepoint’s Engineering team thrives on problem-solving and creating happier users. As Guidepoint works to achieve its mission of making individuals, businesses, and the world smarter through personalized knowledge-sharing solutions, the engineering team is taking on challenges to improve our internal CRM system and create new products to optimize the seamless delivery of our services.

As a Manager, Software Engineering (PHP), you’ll lead a team of engineers through challenging development projects. Come join a highly collaborative team of skilled engineers with a passion for quality. 

This position is hybrid out of our Toronto office. 

What You'll Do:

• Lead a software engineering team in building, enhancing and supporting mission-critical business application products
• Proactively lead engineering teams in re-architecting legacy applications into a highly scalable/transaction heavy API based applications using SOA principles and design patterns
• Propose, evaluate and implement state-of-the art innovative technologies that can increase productivity and efficiency
• Manage and grow geographically distributed software engineering team by providing regular mentorship, career coaching, and performance feedback
• Actively seek to improve the engineering delivery pipeline reducing cycle time and increasing quality and security posture.
• Collaborate with Product, QA, App Support and DevOps teams on improving full software lifecycle such as grooming, defect triage and 3^rd level production support
• Work with large datasets using relational and no-sql (document, graph) databases
• Review and enforce good coding practices
• Convert complex business rules and workflows from User Story requirements into performance and maintenance optimized logic

Minimum Technical Qualifications:

• 5 -10 years of professional experience developing web-based applications in PHP frameworks (Symphony preferred)
• 3 – 5 years of experience in managing a team of 5+ engineers
• Sound knowledge and experience with Object Oriented principles, REST APIs, Web Applications
• Knowledge and experience of using design patterns and algorithm analysis
• 5+ years of hands-on experience using relational / no-sql databases (SQL Server/CosmosDB preferred)
• Experience with caching, session management, message queues, full-text search, web sockets technologies (Redis, Couchbase, RabbitMQ, ElasticSearch, socket.io preferred)
• Computer Science degree preferred

Preferred Technical Qualifications:

• Experience designing fault tolerant architecture on cloud deployments
• Experienced in leveraging issue tracking systems and wikis for documentation (Jira/Confluence)
• Comfortable on CentOS Linux, command line, SSH, SFTP, SCP
• Exposure to Azure/AWS/GCP PaaS
• Crafting architecture diagrams in Visio or LucidChart

Soft Skills Required:

• Maintain problem-solving skills and a proactive work style
• Strong interpersonal & communication skills
• Independent contributor with a drive
• Collaborative and teamwork-oriented
• Accountable for work and take ownership of tasks
• Strategic thinker
• Manages projects and upholds quality on a deadline
• Exhibits judgment when it comes to prioritization and overall team management
• Proven effective leadership skills

You will also be eligible for the following benefits:

• Paid Time Off
• Comprehensive benefits plan
• Company RRSP Match
• Development opportunities through the LinkedIn Learning platform

About Guidepoint:

Guidepoint is a leading research enablement platform designed to advance understanding and empower our clients’ decision-making process. Powered by innovative technology, real-time data, and hard-to-source expertise, we help our clients to turn answers into action.

Backed by a network of nearly 1.5 million experts and Guidepoint’s 1,300 employees worldwide, we inform leading organizations’ research by delivering on-demand intelligence and research on request. With Guidepoint, companies and investors can better navigate the abundance of information available today, making it both more useful and more powerful.

At Guidepoint, our success relies on the diversity of our employees, advisors, and client base, which allows us to create connections that offer a wealth of perspectives. We are committed to upholding policies that contribute to an equitable and welcoming environment for our community, regardless of background, identity, or experience.

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