Platform Technical Lead

Cinchy is the enterprise data collaboration platform that makes it simple and secure for business teams, legacy systems, SaaS apps, and AI to collaborate on data in real-time.

Our customers use Data Collaboration to accelerate digital transformation projects and reduce the time and cost to build applications by more than 50%. Data Collaboration decreases IT project delivery risks, establishes guaranteed data access controls, and enables effortless collaboration on quality data across an organizations’ people and systems.

Welcome to the age of data co-production, where collaboration replaces integration.

We are a growing company of builders, innovators, collaborators that believe freeing your data will empower your teams to build the future and unlock their potential.

As a Senior Platform Developer here at Cinchy you'll be empowered to enhance, maintain, and solve issues in our core platform, and implement entirely new features and functionality from scratch. The goal is to make data collaboration a reality, building things so that our customers can move faster than the speed of business.

What will make a candidate successful is more than just technical expertise. We are looking for individuals that want to make things better and you bring a broad perspective. What separates you from other developers is that you care about what you are building.

Sound interesting? Read on!

Who you are - the general qualities we are looking for in colleagues for this team:

• You’re good at C#, but have explored other languages and paradigms.
• You solve problems, sometimes by writing code.
• You’re good at communicating, with people and computers.
• You know when to say yes, and when to say no.
• You can sweat the details, always considering the big picture.
• You build good products, and effective teams.
• You’re tenacious, thinking about long-term value.
• You’re actively pursuing knowledge.
• You get stuff done.
• Others enjoy working with you.

What you will be doing

• Assume technical ownership of the data synchronization core subdomain, a strategically vital part of our platform.
• Manage a small team of developers with a product mindset.
• Project and team leadership skills.
• Software design and architecture.
• Collaboratively design product/component updates, then lead their development.
• Coordinate your team’s work, balancing functional and non-functional requirements.
• Review code, guide and mentor team members. Be an advocate for quality and continuous improvement.
• Write some great code; leading by example.

What you bring - Don’t worry if you don’t have all these things, we believe in investing in personal growth and can coach you to be successful:

• Technical leadership skills, mentoring.
• Software design and architecture.
• Writing code that not only works, but is easy to understand, maintain, and enhance.
• Making things simpler (e.g. refactoring).
• Balancing competing interests, such as short-term feature delivery, with long-term quality.
• You know .NET, best practices, idiosyncrasies.
• SQL, ETLs, pipelines, messaging, data.
• Bonus: knowledge of (or strong interest in) functional programming.

Key Results (things we will measure success):

30 days: Familiarization with the Cinchy platform, knowledge transfer from the Platform Development Team. Understand the data collaboration platform, and the strategic significance of the data synchronization capabilities. 60 days: Make contributions to the platform

90 days: Greater impact to the platform, but also sharing knowledge with the rest of the team

Our Hiring Process:

Talent Screen: You will initially meet (online) with someone from our Talent team. (30 minutes)

Technical Fit: (90-120 minutes) .Net and SQL

Team Fit: We then have a values fit interview with other members of the Product Development Team (60 minutes)

If all goes well, and you feel that Cinchy is the place you want to build your career, we'll ask for references and make an offer.

Who you will be meeting:

Joseph Kim - Head of Recruitment

Ryan Nieuwoudt - Head of Platform

Andrew Robinson - Head of Core Platform Development

And other members of the Cinchy team.

Click here for Our Values

We encourage applications from all qualified candidates around the world, including indigenous peoples, racialized people, people with disabilities, people from gender and sexually diverse communities and/or people with intersectional identities. Diversity breeds excellence.

If you need any accommodation for the interview process please let us know.