IT Team Lead - Full Stack Development

About Citco

Armed with superior services, smart people, and strong technology, we tackle our customers’ complicated challenges by developing sophisticated solutions driven directly by their demands. The result? Innovation that generates tangible value and makes a real difference for our clients and their companies.

About the Role

You will be working in a cross-functional team, using agile methodologies to build on-prem and cloud native applications for the financial services industry.  We are looking for true team players who can work beyond their specialty to help the team deliver.   Every team member is responsible for the quality of the product and should be willing to work on any tasks needed, be it front-end, back end, test automation, deployment automation, etc. The successful candidate will use their experience and talent to help drive the delivery of the system, introduce new tech and guide the evolution of our applications.

About You

• You must have a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent
• 8+ years of experience with software engineering 
• 3+ years of experience with NodeJS + Typescript
• 3+ years of experience with React
• 2+ years of experience in team leadership role
• 2+ years of experience developing and deploying application to run on AWS infrastructure
• 2+ years of experience working with various AWS services. Must have strong understanding of multiple AWS services and how to deploy/monitor them. 
• Strong skills developing server-side applications using Node.js frameworks such as or similar to NestJS/Hono
• Solid understanding of HTML5, ES6, CSS3, JavaScript and JavaScript frameworks
• Experience with source code management such as GIT
• Strong  skills with relational databases (ideally PostgreSQL)
• Experience working with Agile teams
• Solid understanding and demonstrated proficiency with core software development processes - debugging, code tuning, code management and branching, coding styles and refactoring 
• Must be self-motivated and driven, with strong analytical, problem solving, and communication skills.
• Knowledge of financial industry, specially accounting / general ledger will be preferred.

Salary Range: CAD $135,000 to CAD $175,000

• This posting is for an existing vacancy. 

Our Benefits

Your well-being is of paramount importance to us, and central to our success. We provide a range of benefits, training and education support, and flexible working arrangements to help you achieve success in your career while balancing personal needs. Ask us about specific benefits in your location.

We embrace diversity, prioritizing the hiring of people from diverse backgrounds. Our inclusive culture is a source of pride and strength, fostering innovation and mutual respect.

Citco welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available upon request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection.

Your Role

• You will be responsible for all team activities such as Sprint Planning, Sprint Execution, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective
• Lead development of entire application
• Have strong technical skills to come up with system designs
• Perform peer reviews and ensure the quality of the team’s work
• Responsible for code integration and code deployment of existing modules as well as provide new pipelines for new modules (CI/CD)
• Have strong background in AWS services and practices.
• Be responsible for delivery of entire project from all perspectives. This includes, development, testing, devops, support and architecture design
• Break-down complex functionalities into granular tasks and stories
• Stay current on emerging technologies and be able to match them to Citco need when required