Development Team Lead

Some of what you will do:

The Staples technology team is seeking a talented and energetic Team Lead to join our team. We want an individual who will challenge the norm, strive to create the best experience’s and someone who always puts the customer first. You will have a passion for writing clean, simple code and a willingness to share learnings within your development team.  

This is a hands-on Team Lead role where you will develop and lead teams. You will also have a passion to write and mentor the team with clean simple code.  

In this role, you will be participating in refining and implementing solutions that improve Staples Canada’s E-Commerce platforms.  This will include working with Product Managers, User Experience designers, Architecture, and Quality Assurance engineers to design and build high-quality solutions.

Day-to-day activities will include writing code as well as unit tests to ensure you’re meeting the requirements.  A successful candidate will have E-Commerce related software development experience (SDLC, technology), and a passion to learn new technologies.  

You will have the ability to work within a fast moving, startup like environment and deliver products and services that have a broad business impact. You will also have the opportunity to grow with us and contribute to Staples Canada's evolving cutting-edge software development methodologies, including AI.

Specifically, You Will:

• People manager responsibilities, including performance reviews
• Cultivate a deep understanding of the portfolio of applications we utilize, along with their respective strengths and weaknesses, to assist in providing solutions to existing and future challenges
• Assist in the design of software components to enhance our portfolio
• Through your knowledge of industry trends and tools, together with your own experiences, work with the team to improve our software, our environment, and our process
• Provide guidance and direction to the development teams to tear down obstacles and keep initiatives on target and moving forward
• Translate project goals and product roadmaps into organized technical tasks
• Offer your input and expertise to technical and non-technical audiences
• Work with technology technical leads and business leadership to define the right technology solutions to solve complex problems
• Help maintain and improve current applications  
• Collaborate with team members in an agile environment
• Ensure that the team produces clean code and follow industry best practices and designs

Some of what you need:

• Degree in Computer Science or relevant work experience.
• 2+ years of experience acting as a hands on Team/Technical Lead with prior progressive experience as a full stack developer
• 5+ years of experience working with UI development technologies, mainly React, Type Script, Next JS, HTML5.0, Tailwind CSS and Bootstrap
• 5+ years of experience building web and Windows applications using back end frame works, either NodeJS or C#.
• 5+ years of experience building Micro Services (ideally Docker), Web Services, WCF, Rest API, Web API and .Net-based Web Services for integration with third party applications, and Redis
• Highly experienced in Test Driven Development, Unit Testing and Integration Testing
• Experience with DB management systems like MongoDB, Cosmo DB, PostgreSQL, MS SQL Server, SQL 2008 and above database API’s, designing and development of DB Systems
• Experience using source control systems such as GitHub and CI/CD pipelines
• Experience using logging and monitoring tools, ideally DataDog and Splunk
• Experience with cloud environments, ideally MS Azure
• Familiarity with design thinking and customer centric design
• Good communication and documentation skills
• Experience in practicing Agile methodologies
• Familiarity with Systems thinking and AI assisted development
• Successfully and simultaneously managed multiple large digital projects with an emphasis on some of the following:
• Business transformation
• Uncertain business requirements
• New technology

Physical demands/working conditions:

Office environment – Hybrid, with 4 days onsite in Richmond Hill, subject to the hybrid policy.

Some of what you will get:

• Associate discount
• Health and Dental benefits
• RRSP/DPSP
• Performance bonuses
• Learning & Development programs
• And more...