Senior Engineering Team Lead @ Noibu

Noibu is Canada’s Capital city’s fastest-growing technology company. We help brands recover millions of dollars in lost sales every day by helping them detect, manage and resolve critical errors on their online store. You may have heard of some of our customers like Levi’s, Champion, Air Transat, Guess, and Jelly Belly.

We’re a dedicated team, driven by 4 values; Customer Obsession, Quality, Results-Oriented and Accountability. We’ve been recognized in 2023 as the Globe and Mail’s 8th Fastest Growing Company, 12th in Deloitte Technology Fast 500, #2 in Canada for Deloitte’s Fast 50 in Technology, #4 on Forbes Canada’s Best Startup Employers and are Great Place to Work Certified in Canada. If you’re interested in joining a team poised for greatness, we hope you’ll apply!

About the Team:

As a Software Development Team Lead at Noibu, you will be responsible for managing a team of 2-5 senior developers across the full stack. You will lead a stream-aligned squad from ideation to completion, ensuring the team consistently delivers high-quality, scalable solutions that align with business goals and meet deadlines.

What you’ve done:

You are an exceptional engineer
Successfully led software development teams, providing feedback, mentorship, and support to individual developers.
Demonstrated exceptional project management skills, delivering complex products on time and meeting specified requirements.
Correlated team performance with business success, focusing on retention, customer acquisition, and other key business metrics.
Tracked velocity with metrics like DORA to measure team and individual success.
Delivered high-quality code in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment.
Helped define and shape the direction of development teams.
Have worked in teams where design, product and engineering work closely together.
Bonus: Have experience working on monitoring-esque product

Who You Are:

An engineering team lead with 3-5 years of experience
Has previously had at least 8 years of experience being an Engineering IC.
A strong full-stack or backend developer, able to write code and guide your team through challenges
Have a player-coach mentality, able to dive into the code and manage their team
An exceptional project manager who has delivered difficult products on time and within scope.
Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment, and familiar with SaaS metrics and modern development practices.
A flexible leader who can wear multiple hats as needed to help the team succeed.
A leader who is comfortable and prefers working on teams where collaboration between design and product is high.

Our Stack:

Cloud Infrastructure: GCP + AWS.
Stream Processing: Scala, Flink, Spark.
Data Storage: Iceberg, Parquet, SQL databases.
Messaging Systems: Pub/Sub, Kafka.
Microservices: Rust for microservices, batch analytics, and stream processing on dedicated machines.
Programming Languages: VM languages (Java, Scala), Go.
API Integrations: GraphQL.
CI/CD and Orchestration: Fully automated builds via CI/CD in Kubernetes.
Search and Analytics: Elastic Search.

Why should you consider Noibu?

🦄 We’re working to be Ottawa’s next Unicorn

Noibu is going to impact billions of shoppers. By joining our small team on the ground floor, you have the opportunity to do something amazing with us and grow more than you even realize is possible.

💰 Compensation

We’re a pay for impact company that is striving to lead the market in regards to compensation. Outside of your base salary, you have access to our Employee Stock Option Plan and potential variable pay or bonus arrangements.

🕰️ Unlimited Time Off & Flexible Working Style

In addition to unlimited time off, we enforce an annual minimum of 3 weeks for all employees and have a company wide holiday shut down every year. Our flexible working style means you get to choose the hours that work best for you.

🦷 Benefits from Day 1

Imagine having to wait 3 months into your new job to go to the dentist? Never at Noibu. We hired you. We believe in you, and everyone gets access to all benefits, perks, and allowances from their first day with us 🤝

🎉 Fun & Engagement

Lots of companies preach having fun, but we seriously do walk the walk. Think things like Monthly Company-Wide & Team-Specific Socials, frequent post-work Happy Hours, and a MAJOR annual Holiday Party 🎄

...Plus much, much more.

If you have experience that’s close to what we outlined but think you might be missing a couple of things, apply anyway! 🚀 What’s the worst that could happen? Noibu looks for people with exceptional potential, and we know that this takes many forms.

At Noibu, we are committed to building and fostering an environment where our employees feel included, valued, supported, and heard. We strongly encourage applications from Indigenous people, racialized people, people with disabilities, people from gender and sexually diverse communities and/or people with intersectional identities. If you require any accommodations, please notify us and we will ensure you can participate fully and equally during the recruitment and selection process.

We encourage all applicants to indicate their preferred pronouns on their application (e.g. she/her/hers, he/him/his, they/them/theirs, etc).

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