Software Development Team Lead

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. This individual 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.

What will you need to succeed?

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent.
• 2+ years leading a development team; formal people leadership experience.
• 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.

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.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills in English is essential.

The successful candidate for this position must be bilingual. Fluency in French and English (verbal and written) is required to perform the duties and responsibilities of the position for the following reason(s):

• The role requires interacting with English-speaking customers and suppliers across Canada and/or internationally
• The role requires regular interactions with Siemens colleagues based outside of Quebec, nationally and internationally
• The role requires using software or technology that is available only in English

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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Siemens Canada is a technology company focused on industry, infrastructure, transport, and healthcare. From more resource-efficient factories, resilient supply chains, and smarter buildings and grids, to cleaner and more comfortable transportation as well as advanced healthcare, the company creates technology with purpose, adding real value for customers since 1912. By combining the real and the digital worlds, Siemens empowers its customers to transform their industries and markets, to transform the everyday for billions of people. Siemens also owns a majority stake in the publicly listed company Siemens Healthineers, a globally leading medical technology provider shaping the future of healthcare. In addition, Siemens holds a minority stake in Siemens Energy, a global leader in the transmission and generation of electrical power. As of September 30, 2023, the company has approximately 4,200 employees from coast-to-coast and 33 office and production facilities across Canada. Siemens Canada has a revenue of ~ CAD $2Billion.

To learn more about Siemens Canada, visit our website at www.siemens.ca

While we appreciate all applications we receive, we advise that only candidates under consideration will be contacted.