Software Development Manager
Accommodations Plus International
- Toronto, ON
- $150,000-160,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Oversee and participate in full lifecycle application development using best commercial practices.
- Collaborate with solution architects and software leads to best ensure highly reliable, quality-oriented, and performance-driven products.
- Support product design, code, and debug software systems using TDD approach.
- Professional working experience with AWS Cloud platform and services.
- Perform software analysis, to include performance optimization, risk analysis and reliability analysis.
- Experience with mobile browser and mobile app design, including reactive design across different platforms and form factors.
- Provide mentorship to develop technical and soft skills for members of the team.
- Manage cross-team communications and priority setting for a software development team.
- Participate in software design, architectural discussions, prototyping, and development with an emphasis on a micro-services architecture.
- Integrate new software solutions with existing client systems.
- Participate in client functional and system-level requirements including application reliability, maintainability, and availability (RMA).
- Participate in daily scrum team stand-up meetings with offshore development teams.
- Be capable of providing feasible product scope, manpower, timeline, and cost estimates, and then drive the product development to achieve these estimates.
- Participate in and critique User Interface (UI) designs to best ensure intuitive, easy-to-use, and professional web pages using best human factors engineering practices.
- Perform frequent code reviews to best ensure product quality and performance optimizations – both from a coding perspective and a database optimization/tuning perspective.
- Ensure quality and consistent design of all APIs and external interfaces in accordance with company guidelines.
- Oversee product acceptance testing, staging, and move to production in accordance with API’s life cycle and product release policies.
- Support production and defect management as needed.
- Functional/system integration testing support and deployment.
- Minimum eight years development experience in modern Java technologies and developing REST based web-based applications.
- Professional experience with modern Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Angular, Node and MVC web-based applications.
- Proficiency with AWS cloud technologies.
- Strong SQL, Redis, DB Migration tools and AWS RDS/Postgres skills.
- Professional experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
- Prior experience in a senior developer role with technical team lead responsibilities for an agile team with offshore members.
- BSc/BA in computer science, engineering, or relevant field; MSc/MA preferred.
- Solid full-stack developer and design patterns.
- Self-motivated and directed, with the ability to effectively prioritize assign and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment.
- Analytical and problem-solving abilities, with keen attention to detail.
- Managing client support issues and escalations.
- Experience with Agile, TDD and BDD.
- Professional experience with monitoring tools such as Data Dog.
This is a full-time position. Days and hours of work are Monday through Friday, normal core business hours in Ontario, Canada. Evening and weekend work may be required as job duties demand. This may include meetings with our offshore teams.Supervisory Responsibility
YesTravel Requirements
Some occasional travel may be required, primarily to API’s corporate offices in Long Island, New York.Compensation
Good faith annual salary for this position is $150,000 - $160,000 CAD and is commensurate with experience.Who We AreAPI is the global leader for crew accommodation solutions, and we are changing the way businesses manage travel. Our technology platform streamlines the entire crew planning process, making day-to-day operations more efficient and elevating the crew layover experience. API’s proprietary technology, mobile solutions and our experienced team are positioned to offer our clients a complete, end-to-end platform that integrates seamlessly into their process. We are looking for dynamic, creative, and tech savvy individuals to join our team. If you are passionate about hard work, providing impeccable service, technology, and solutions to our clients then API may be a great fit for you!Other DutiesDuties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time according to business needs.Work EnvironmentThis position operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines.Physical DemandsThe physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand, walk; use hands to finger, handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms.AAP/EEO StatementAccommodations Plus International is an Equal Opportunity Employer that does not discriminate on the basis of actual or perceived race, creed, color, religion, alienage or national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, disability or handicap, sex, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, genetic information, arrest record, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws. Our management team is dedicated to this policy with respect to recruitment, hiring, placement, promotion, transfer, training, compensation, benefits, employee activities and general treatment during employment.Powered by JazzHR