Software Engineer, Team Lead

JOB BRIEF

We are seeking a Team Lead to help us develop the entertainment industry’s most advanced production finance application. A Team Lead is responsible for the overall planning, execution and success of the software solutions their team creates. As a team lead, a good amount of your time is spent identifying and clearing roadblocks for your team. This requires effective collaboration skills. You need to collaborate with different business functions in order to get what your team needs to move forward. From collaborating with the Software Engineering management team, to Product Designers to get high fidelity designs of a particular feature, to Operations to ensure the developers on your team have the right hardware to get their job done. A great team lead thinks ahead, anticipates risks, and addresses them before they become a bottleneck for the team. The application stack includes C#, JavaScript, TypeScript, KendoUI, Clean Architecture, DDD and Microservices and we are constantly looking for ways to evolve it. This is a role a remote role based in Canada.

WHO WE ARE

GreenSlate is the fastest-growing provider of technology and business solutions for media productions. We provide the most advanced technology for production accounting and entertainment payroll. Our innovative cloud-based platform is evolving the entertainment industry’s back-office by replacing inefficient paper-based processes with digital solutions. The studios, film franchises, independent producers, and content creators we serve benefit from greater efficiencies, better access to data, and cost savings, and they minimize their impact on the environment. GreenSlate offers a full range of payroll, software application, production accounting, tax credit management, ACA compliance & benefits, production insurance, and consulting services. To learn more about the productions we partner with, please visit gslate.com.

WHAT DO WE EXPECT FROM YOU

What you will do

Team Productivity & Coordination

• Coordinating efforts by leading team stand-ups.
• Clearing blockers.
• Ensuring that project plans are properly estimated, split into reviewable/testable milestones and constantly updated in Wrike.
• Being a technical point of reference.
• Ensuring the GreenSlate software development process is thoroughly followed.
• Participating in the interviewing of new team members.
• Extending developer onboarding with team-specific training.

Team Deliverables

• Hitting estimates and delivering solutions on-time and as-specified.
• Ensuring that solutions fully support the specification.
• Contributing to the success and quality of solutions by verifying the soundness of specifications and advocating for their alteration when warranted.
• Ensuring solutions are secure, optimized and perform well.

Team Technical Direction

• Ensuring that architecture documents provide a sound explanation of how solutions will be implemented.
• Approving architecture documents and presenting them to the development manager for final approval.
• Doing architectural reviews at the end of each milestone in project plans. Ensuring that deviation from the architecture document is corrected accordingly.
• Being responsible for your team’s code following GreenSlate Coding Standards and good software engineering principles (SOLID, reusability, extensibility, maintainability, scalability and performance).
• Becoming an expert in the features your team owns.

Team Management

• Doing 1:1s. Escalating any relevant feedback to your manager.
• Mentoring and working with team members to improve their skills and their performance. Giving them guidance on their future at the company and what they need to continue through the career path.
• Doing performance reviews and approving SMART goals.
• Approving PTO. Ensuring that PTO will not put a strict deadline at risk.
• Escalating any significant issues to the appropriate development manager which they should be aware of.
• Immediately alerting your manager if any project plan is in danger of being behind schedule.
• Immediately alerting your manager if there are any critical issues, especially around security.
• Providing thought leadership on potential improvements to the development management team – whether it be technical, process, people, training or otherwise.
• Being able to quickly & confidently report on the status of any of your team’s members – activity, progress, quality, etc.
• Managing and planning your team’s backlog, planning a workload, estimating and assigning tickets, and being able to speak to the timeline for any ticket in the backlog.

Who you are

• You have a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• You have 5+ years of professional experience in enterprise-level software design, development and testing.
• You are proficient in C# or Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML/CSS, relational databases and ORM frameworks.
• You have experience with a commonly used back-end framework (e.g. Rails, Spring, .NET) and a commonly used front-end framework (e.g. React, Angular, Vue.js).
• You are passionate about automated testing, including unit and API testing.
• You are well-versed in object-oriented design and development concepts (e.g. SOLID, Onion/Hexagonal architecture, anemic/rich domain model, design patterns and data structures).
• You have strong communication skills with both internal team members and external business stakeholders.
• You have excellent communication skills in English, both verbal and written.
• You have excellent interpersonal skills.
• You have experience in a variety of software development approaches and methodologies including Agile and Waterfall.
• You have strong facilitation and coaching skills.
• You are internally motivated, able to work proficiently both independently and in a team environment.
• You have a strong initiative to find ways to improve solutions, systems and processes.
• You have a desire to remain technically capable and an expert in current technologies.
• You have experience modeling and architecting complicated business domains and associated methodologies/paradigms: i.e. Domain Driven Design, Event Sourcing, CQRS (this is a plus).
• You have expertise in distributed architectural patterns: event driven microservices, distributed transactions: sagas, append-only logs, change data capture, idempotent consumer, eventual consistency (this is a plus).

WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM US

• Private health insurance.
• Twelve PTO days per year plus an additional PTO day per year.
• Education reimbursement program.
• A full time work-from-home policy.
• Monthly team-building activities, like parties, poker nights, and soccer matches.
• Access to a powerful laptop workstation with a docking station and dual monitors.
• Be part of a successful company and on a team building a product which is disrupting the market.
• A fast-paced development backed by a solid SDLC and premium tools.
• A focus on SOLID principles, TDD, best practices, and software craftsmanship.
• Participating in daily stand-ups (including NYC and LA), pair programming, and collaboration.
• An extensive onboarding covering our company, technologies, architecture, and practices.
• A well-defined management career path. Leaders who invest in you and online learning via PluralSight.
• Work under managers who are all former engineers and alongside talented architects.
• Working with a fully responsive, single-page-application (SPA) powered by a RESTful API.
• A tech stack that’s constantly evolving and modernizing, including a move to microservices.
• Be employed directly by a US-based company – you will be part of GreenSlate.

At GreenSlate, we take steps to ensure our customers and applicants remain safe from online fraud and scams. We never ask for credit card numbers, credit reports, or other sensitive information as part of our application process, and we do not require applicants to purchase training or pay a fee. We encourage applicants to do research before engaging in any transaction and never give out their credit card or bank account information to any unknown parties.

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