Developer Team Lead

About Your Role   

Our team is looking to add an experienced Developer Team Lead to its roster. This leader will be responsible for overseeing the daily operations of a full stack development team focused on customer onboarding and support work. Your work to guide the team on output, design decisions, quality, and engagement will power features and enable engagements with some of the nation's largest logistics companies. We are interested in your ideas and innovation.  If you’ve got experience at a startup or have an “I will figure this out” mindset, we encourage you to apply. We value leads that can motivate the team, embrace the culture, and drive for results.     

What You’ll Do   

Leadership and Management Responsibilities  

• Team Leadership: Leading a team of developers, including hiring, training, and mentoring team members. This involves setting clear expectations, providing regular feedback, and fostering a collaborative team environment. 
• Project Management: Overseeing the planning, execution, and delivery of software development projects. This includes task assignment, scheduling, and ensuring that projects are completed on time and within budget. 
• Stakeholder Communication: Serving as a key point of contact for stakeholders, including product, management, and other departments. This involves communicating project status, negotiating requirements, and ensuring that the final product meets stakeholder needs.  

Technical Responsibilities  

Since you will be overseeing the code output of a full stack team the following list are technologies and skills that are beneficial to the success of the role.   

• Full Stack Development: Proficiency in both front-end and back-end development. Familiarity with front-end technologies like HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and frameworks such as Angular, as well as back-end languages and frameworks like .NET, .NET core. 
• Database Management: Experience with database technologies, including relational databases (e.g., SQL Server), and the ability to design, query, and manage data effectively. 
• DevOps and Cloud Services: Understanding of DevOps practices, including continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD), and experience with cloud services for hosting and managing applications.    

What You Bring   

• 3 years minimum working in a B2B SaaS environment.   
• 5 years minimum working with C#/.NET Core; experience with Angular is a bonus.  
• Willingness to embrace a remote working environment and asynchronous, document driven communication.   
• Advanced understanding of software development methodologies (e.g., Agile, Scrum).  
• A desire to use data to drive your decisions.   
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.  
• Autonomy and an ownership mindset – we’ll help you, but we want you to help us too.   
• Proficiency in English in both written and verbal communication skills.  
• Strong communication skills – you'll be a customer-facing representative of our development team. 
• Willingness to use dark mode for everything, or you’ll be subject to much ridicule.  
• In addition to expertise in full-stack development, strong problem-solving skills, and the ability to architect scalable and efficient software solutions.  
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, the ability to motivate and lead a team, and the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.  
• Familiarity with project management tools (e.g., Jira, Trello) and methodologies (e.g., Agile, Scrum).  

Bonuses – What Will Make You Stand Out 

• Passion about your side projects; tell us about them! 
• Practical experience with Machine Learning and/or Artificial Intelligence. 
• Experience using Azure as cloud provider. 
• Experience with North American Logistics or Supply Chain companies. 
• Experience with Compliance frameworks such as PCI, SOC2, or HIPAA. 

What We Value  

We believe that the best software is software that is in use, in production.  We optimize business value and impact.  We believe that the best code is simple for humans to read. We work with a sense of urgency, think about how our application works, and advocate for improvements.  Our core values are:  

• Empathy: work with our users and each other in mind  
• Pragmatism: plan and work in iterations and design for change 
• Ownership: ensuring we are delivering quality software to our customers  

About our Engineering Team 

We believe that the best software is software that is in use, in production. We optimize for business value and impact. We believe that the best code is simple for humans to read. We work with a sense of urgency, think about how our application works as a whole, and advocate for improvements. Our core values are Empathy (work with our users and each other in mind), Pragmatism (plan and work in iterations and design for change), and Ownership (ensuring we are delivering quality software to our customers.)