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You will support the Senior Manager, Development to hire, grow, coach, and lead a team of developers to build, scale, monitor, and optimize our billing infrastructure working on account management, pricing and packaging, subscription lifecycle, compliance, payment processing and more. While based in Canada (in locations where we can legally hire), you will report to the Manager, Software Development. \nWHAT YOU’LL DO: \nBuild, support and lead a high performance, cohesive team of developers, in close partnership with the Senior Manager, Development\nFacilitate ongoing development conversations with your team to support their learning and career growth\nProactively share information, actively solicit feedback, and facilitate communication, within teams and portfoliosParticipate in the hiring process, with an aim of attracting and hiring the best developers\nAssess and prioritize the team's work, appropriately delegating to others and encouraging team ownership.\nMaintain high standards of security, reliability, scalability, performance, and quality in all delivered projectsHelp shape our technical roadmap as we scale our services and build new products\nDesign, write, test, and deploy high quality scalable code\nWork with the following technologies: Go, Scala, PHP, Docker, Jenkins, Kafka, Redis, MySQL, Domain Driven Design, Event Sourcing, Test Driven Design and Agile, React and Typescript\nWHAT YOU’LL NEED: \nA degree in Computer Science or Engineering, and at least 5 years of experience in designing, developing and maintaining software or an equivalent level of work experience, and a track record of substantial contributions to software projects with high business impact\nYou are proficient in Go, Scala or a similar language and have a desire to learn other languages\nUnderstanding of distributed systems and how to work in high availability environments\nExperience with mentoring, coaching, and pairing with coworkers\nAn understanding of SaaS software development practice, previous experience working on a SaaS product will be viewed favorably\nCollaboration and Teamwork: works with others to deliver results, meaningfully contributing to the team and prioritizing group needs over individual needs\nCreativity and Innovation: seeks new and better ways of doing things, generating original and imaginative ideas, products, and/or solutions\nProblem Solving: uses an organized and logical approach to find solutions to complex problems and looks beyond the obvious to understand the root cause of problems and proposes several possible solutions\nResilience, Tolerance for Change/Ambiguity: can effectively cope with change, finding ways to advance work and projects\nWHO YOU ARE:\nSolution seeker. You’re focused on tackling new challenges, solving problems, and moving the business forward-and you don’t wait to be asked.\nLifelong learner. You have a growth mindset - you’re here to learn, experiment, seek, apply, and provide feedback, share what works with your team, and move on from what doesn’t.\nResilient adapter. In the face of change and challenges, you bring a thoughtful, calm approach, and a focus on finding the new opportunity.\nIntentional collaborator. You build positive working relationships across the business, bringing people together to foster new opportunities and to facilitate the efficient flow of information.\nCritical challenger. You have the trust in your team to ask difficult questions in order to get to the best end result.\nActive communicator. You listen actively and communicate ideas and information clearly, inclusively, and proactively.\nIntegrated thinker. You look beyond your role and responsibilities to understand how your team’s work drives broader organizational goals.\nAccountable owner. You take pride in the work you’re responsible for with a mindset of ultimate accountability and reliability for the outcomes.\nBar-raiser. You step up to help your team grow and succeed, even when that means going beyond what might be expected.\nIn all we do, our six guiding principles light the way:\nStep Up: Dare to go beyond the expected to achieve greatness. #StepUp\nOne Team: Make Hootsuite a place we soar together by respecting each other's individuality, building trust, and showing up for the team. #OneTeam #FreeToBeMe\nCustomer Obsessed: Focus relentlessly on helping our customers succeed. #CustomerObsessed\nGo Fast, Be Agile: Widen our competitive advantage by committing to speed and simplicity over perfection and complexity. #GoFastBeAgile\nPlay to Win: Commit to building an incredible, profitable company for our customers, our employees, and our stakeholders. #PlayToWin #NoExcuses\nNeighbours & Allies: Give back to our communities and be an ally. #SocialForGood #Allies\n\n Accommodations will be provided as requested by candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.\n\nThis posting is for a current vacancy for which we are actively hiring.\nCanada Pay Range For This Role\n$98,400—$137,800 CAD\nUse of AI in Hiring\nHootsuite uses artificial intelligence (AI) to support our recruitment process. 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