Lead Developer

Lead Developer (P&BB Products API Team)

Contract: 6 months
Location: Toronto — Hybrid - 2 days onsite per week
Seniority: 5+ years total dev experience, 1+ year in a lead/mentorship role
Start: Jan 15
Team: P&BB Products API Team - dedicated to delivering API services for lending and EDB platforms.
Interview Process: 2 Total

Overall Responsibilities:

· Lead the design and development of critical technology functions across multiple business units, ensuring product quality, performance, and UI/UX.

· Analyze the impact of design decisions on the computer solution/product/service being developed and recommend alternative solutions for optimization if required.

· Collaborate with stakeholders from various areas of the business to define, analyze, and deliver requirements that reflect the needs of both the business and end-customers.

· Assess the costs and benefits of different solutions and recommend/decide on appropriate designs.

· Build solutions that are supportable, scalable, and achieve our aspiration of common assets.

· Proactively identify and resolve production issues, including completing root-cause analysis and diagnosis independently.

· Strengthen the development capability of the team by sharing expertise, mentoring employees, building communities of practice and networks, and staying abreast of industry technical and business trends through individual learning and participation in professional associations and practice communities.

Your Mindset:

· You are a self-starter, driven and can handle multiple projects and priorities.

· You are passionate about driving customer values with digital acceleration mindset and culture in a fast-paced, challenging environment where you get the opportunity to work with a spectrum of latest tools and technologies to drive forward continuous improvement.

· You are actively looking to improve the solutions you implement, understand the efficacy of collaboration and reaching out across functional borders and are keen to work in a team in an Agile environment.

· As a member of this team, you should possess the ability to inspire yourself and your team. Based on your previous experiences you will inject new knowledge and skills into an already high performing team thus excelling our efforts to new heights.

Desired Skills and Experience:

· A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent industry experience.

· Strong programming skills with hands-on experience designing and implementing high volume, high availability applications with a very high degree of automation.

· Excellent interpersonal and communication skills to inspire and motivate team members towards achieving common goals.

· Experience in evaluating trade-offs and making constructive calls with other teams while balancing perfection and compromise.

· Technical proficiency in the required programming languages, frameworks and technologies, including JavaScript, Typescript, AWS SDK, AWS DynamoDB, AWS Lambda, API Gateway.

· An in-depth level of understanding with software development principles



TSG is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
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