Fullstack Team Lead - JavaScrips, Java, NodeJS

As a Team Lead at Caseware, you’ll lead a team of innovative software engineers to drive the development of cutting edge cloud-based solutions that are revolutionizing the way that financial audits are performed across the world. You will provide technical & career mentorship and coaching to your direct reports, work closely with product and UX to deliver against our exciting roadmap, and drive iterative improvements to the complete software development lifecycle.

You will be a part of the Data Analytics department that is committed to delivering state of the art data lifecycle management and analytic solutions that enable our global distributor network to develop and customize products that fit their market needs. The squad you will manage is responsible for developing a Cloud Data Data Analytics platform with the goal of running thousands of concurrent import & analytic jobs in parallel with datasets ranging in size from MB’s to GB’s.

What you will be doing:

• Recruit new software development talent, successfully onboarding, mentoring, and investing in staff to reach their full potential
• Directly manage an agile squad of talented developers who architect, build, and maintain the Caseware Cloud Data Analytics platform, providing technical mentorship and career development, including completing their annual performance reviews
• Work closely with product, UX, and other managers to define & deliver secure, performant, scalable designs exceeding customer expectations
• Build a solid understanding of the technology and architecture powering the Data Analytics Platform
• Provide day to day technical guidance to teams as a subject matter expert on the technology they are using
• Represent the team in technical & product discussions with Tech Leads, Architects, Operations, Product/UX, and external stakeholders
• Champion Agile processes, managing and tracking team performance to help drive iterative improvements to software delivery performance and SDLC that can apply across all teams
• Ensure development best practices, such as code reviews and branch strategies, are employed by developers and documented on Confluence
• Coordinate with DevOps/CloudOps & Dev Success teams on behalf of your developers to make sure they have all of the tools and support they require
• You ensure that build pipelines and development environments are stable by personally unblocking challenges that happen
• Provide 24/7 production support for the systems your team manages, driving continuous improvement in this area through post-mortems and root cause analysis
• You support your teams’ output by contributing code when the team is busy focusing on critical path features.

What you’ll bring:

• Experience working on an agile team
• Strong communication and collaboration skills
• Minimum 4 years creating distributed, data-intensive, and highly scalable production-grade applications with NodeJS or Java applications
• Exposure to FE JavaScript frameworks (Angular, React, Vue)
• Experience with Rest API/Microservices and concepts such as domain driven design, event-driven design, atomic/acid, etc.
• Proven experience with AWS services like SQS, SNS, Dynamodb, Step functions, lambda, RDS, S3, EMR
• Worked in ETL projects, implementing multi-threading, manipulating small(~1KB) to large(~10GB) datasets
• Experience with unit testing and writing automated tests that work in a trunk-based lifecycle
• Experience mentoring developers on design and coding best practices, quality, performance, and security and code reviews
• A passion for transformation: in your career, you have experienced many changes. You have evolved architectures, processes, platforms, and have grown and developed highly functional teams
• Ability to coach, motivate, lead, energize and manage a team of 6-8 software developers with varying experience levels
• Passion for technical mentorship including code/peer review feedback
• A passion for building great products and bridging the gap between technology and product teams

The Tech Stack you’ll be working with:

• MERN
• Microservices hosted on AWS EKS
• Orchestration with AWS Step Functions & SNS/SQS
• Big Data ETL on AWS EMR (Hadoop, Glue, Presto, Spark)
• AWS storage solutions (DynamoDB, S3)
• AWS Lambda (Serverless)
• GitHub & GitHub Actions
• Nx Monorepo
• Our devs prefer to use IntelliJ (IDEA)
• Atlassian Cloud (Jira/Confluence)
•  Diagrams.net for diagrams & collaboration

About Caseware

Caseware's cutting-edge software products are meticulously designed for accounting firms, corporations, and governments. Our teams are continually collaborating, innovating, and building upon our existing suite of products. With a customer-focused mindset, we are building technology that is shaping what the future of audits, financial reporting, and financial data analytics will look like.

With a recent strategic investment from Hg Capital in 2020, Caseware is now in its next major growth phase as we double down on the people and products that have made Caseware so successful to date.

One of Caseware's core values is Many Voices, One Team and with that in mind, we're dedicated to building teams as diverse as our customers in an equitable and inclusive way. We welcome and encourage candidates of all backgrounds to apply. Should you require accommodations or have any questions at any point during the application or interview process, please e-mail our People Operations team at [email protected].

Any candidates successful in obtaining an offer for a position will need to successfully complete a background check through Certn.co which typically includes an Identity Verification and Criminal Record Check. Executives and Senior Managers will undergo a Soft Credit Check as well.

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