Tech Lead Engineer (Full Stack)

TRADER Corporation is a trusted Canadian leader in online media, dealer and lender services. The company is comprised of AutoTrader.ca, AutoSync and Dealertrack Canada. AutoTrader.ca (AutoHebdo.net in Quebec) offers the largest inventory of new cars and used cars in Canada, receiving over 25 million monthly visits to its marketplace. With over 3,500 subscribers and counting, AutoSync is the largest and fastest growing dealer and OEM software provider in Canada. The platform's suite of connected automotive software solutions brings advertising, conversion and operational support together, synchronizing the entire retail process. AutoSync's diverse range of offerings includes: vAuto, EasyDeal, xtime, Motoinsight, Activix, TAdvantage and TRFFK. Dealertrack is Canada’s largest automotive financing portal, enhancing efficiency and profitability for all major segments of the automotive, marine, recreational vehicle, motorcycle and powersport retail industries. Over 6.5 million credit applications are submitted via the Dealertrack Canada portal each year. Visit tradercorporation.com to learn more..

Trader Corporation is the team behind Canada’s leading automotive marketplace, autoTRADER.ca. We are a technology driven company that creates world class solutions for our users and dealer customers. We are expanding our team and need a Tech Lead for our distributed engineering office.

Key Areas of Responsibility

- Help the team create world class products and technical solutions in our agile environment by leading initiatives within teams of web engineers

- You will be the technical lead for an agile development team. This means you will work closely with the Product leads, Delivery leads, and Engineering Manager to groom, estimate, solution and deliver the product and technical improvements in our pipeline

- Support the Engineering Manager in leading Engineers and SDETs to help the entire team identify proper software engineering solutions and implementation via code-reviews, tech sharing sessions, and software estimation

- Help guide new product ideas by providing feasibility and creative technical solutions

- Host regular tech shares to introduce new tools, practices, technology or provide training

- Mentor colleagues of all skill levels to advance their technical abilities

- Lead select agile ceremonies such as stand-ups and grooming as required

- Facilitate design reviews for new features

- Establish best practices and review them regularly with the team

- Identify gaps or areas of improvement in the development and testing process, and proactively address them

- Monitor key metrics

- Proactively introduce and carry out procedures to stay above Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s)

- Act as a bridge between developers, QA’s and SDET’s to facilitate alignment of work

- Follow and improve automated test reports which run static code analysis and code coverage analysis

- Reach out to business partners to resolve issues with third party SDK’s

Required Skills

- Fantastic communication skills

- MVVM framework experience in Angular 9+, as well as hands-on experience with ASP.NET MVC

- Experience with .NET Web API, .NET framework, .NET Core, and Azure API management

- Responsive Front-end layout/design, and implementation using jQuery and Bootstrap 4

- Non-relational table storage using Azure Table Storage.

- Working experience on high-traffic websites, while leveraging techniques to enable performance and caching, security and monitoring

- Able to conceptualize a technical solution and relay it to other team members and stakeholders.

- Work with Trader’s architecture group to implement software against reference specification.

- Expert level experience in building unit, component, and integration tests and knowledge of how to use this as a system contract between other system end points.

- Experience building cloud-based apps and a strong familiarity in the scalability, performance optimization, and monitoring of those apps.

- Know how to work with source code management and delivery / pipeline platforms like GitHub, Azure Dev Ops, and JIRA in a distributed team environment.

Required Experience

- University Degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science or related subject

- 5+ years of engineering experience in online software industry; strong knowledge of website design, functionality usability, and web-based application architectures

- Demonstratable experience with Microsoft platform development.

- Experience with cloud-based solutions, ideally with Microsoft Azure

- Agile methodologies, Kanban preferrable

What’s in it for you…

-We understand that there is life at work and life outside of work. Here are a few benefits we all benefit from that support us to be our creative best.

Fitness and wellness

-We provide discounts to nation-wide gyms, onsite gyms (when we’re in the office), an Employee and Family Assistance Program, as well as a virtual wellness program.

Benefits from Day 1

-Gym discounts

-Local in-office free gyms

-Employee and Family Assistance program

-Weekly virtual wellness events

-Conferences & training budget

-Regular internal training programs

Financial planning

-Let us help you invest in your future with 3% matching towards your pension and multiple forms of income protection.

Competitive salary

-Annual bonus structure

-3% CPP matching