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About Global Skills Hub
Global Skills Hub helps international technical talent to find jobs with Canadian companies and relocate to Canada.
We match developers from all around the world with suitable remote or relocation jobs with Canada's top tech companies. We exclusively partner with employers that are open to sponsoring your visa costs and we also help with the entire immigration process.
We're on a mission to solve one of the biggest challenges for high-growth companies across Canada: the shortage of highly skilled and experienced technical talent.
At the same time, we are committed to helping tech professionals integrate into a safe and diverse environment, that ensures a path to a thriving life and career.
P.S. We don’t charge our candidates any fees.
Position
Our hiring partner, based in Toronto, is leading the technology revolution in the Canadian commercial insurance industry by making it easy, quick, and affordable for startups, self-employed professionals, contractors, and small businesses to get insured.
They are looking for a Technical Lead in Brazil and Colombia to join their team as independent contractors, with the opportunity to relocate to Canada after the first three months and help meet the goal of creating a robust platform.
As a Tech Lead you will be leveraging a significant technical background to consult the Engineering Team’s technical strategy in accordance with the best practices of iterative, autonomous development and deployment. With a keen focus on security and scalability concerns, you will work closely with the Product Manager, the Team Lead, Engineering, and Staff Developers to design and implement the systems and processes that enable the Engineering Team to meet its objectives.
Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with project stakeholders and the development team to design, build, and implement scalable, user-friendly apps and libraries using Node, React, and Typescript
- Collaborate with Product Management to examine, adjust, and break down roadmap items into epics, and break down epics into discreet, actionable, appropriately sized tickets in the team’s backlog
- Provide a technical perspective on organizational objectives within the client’s scope of activities. Analyze requirements, identify areas of concern, and provide recommendations based on your extensive technical background
- Using POC models provided by Staff Developers, design and implement systems and infrastructure in accordance with the client’s vision and culture
- Adhere to the organization’s security strategy using a security-first mindset
- Discuss various strategies and architecture and highlight tradeoffs for potential solutions
- Perform code reviews, ensuring that pull requests accurately reflect the acceptance criteria of the tickets they address
- Use quality metrics to identify gaps in the testing strategy
- Work with other developers to recommend solutions that are in accordance with accepted testing frameworks
- Define and prioritize areas of technical debt and bugs, taking into consideration outcomes of the incident management process and addressing them with the team
- Consult the team into a culture of iterative deployability with awareness of cycle time and failure rates
- Use a systematic approach to debugging to diagnose issues within the application
- Write unit tests as well as higher-level tests to ensure application quality and stability
- Consistently produce production-ready code that is easily testable, easily understandable, and accounts for edge cases and errors, using comments and other documentation strategies where appropriate
- Follow Agile practices, suggest improvements, and participate in team events
- Develop a strong understanding of the company’s goals and initiatives and help the client deliver on those goals/initiatives
- Ensure technical standards such as accessibility, performance, security, maintainability, functional correctness, operability and observability are observed in the modules developed and maintained by the team
- Document decisions, research and guides to foster and build a culture of continuous learning and continuous improvement
- Perform other duties as assigned
Your qualification
- University degree or college diploma in a recognized technical, vocational or academic program or equivalent work experience
- 7+ years of experience building rich, complex and scalable APIs
- 5+ years of building front-end web applications using modern Javascript frameworks
- 2+ experience in designing scalable and distributed systems
- Extensive full-stack experience working with React/Redux/Node/Typescript/MongoDB and Javascript
- Extensive experience with the Scrum framework and Agile methodologies
- Familiarity with DORA metrics to measure the DevOps Performance, and experience in communicating what’s been measured to the client
- Familiarity with goal-setting frameworks such as OKRs to make sure you, as an independent contractor, are delivering high-quality work and meeting expectations
- Experience architecting and augmenting large software systems
- Experience with Javascript development toolings like WebPack, Babel, and Storybook
- Experience with Unit Testing frameworks like Jest/Mocha
- Experience building and/or working with micro-services and micro front-ends
Will be a plus
- Experience working with test automation frameworks like Cypress, Nightwatch, Selenium, and BrowserStack
- Experience using Salesforce CRM
- Experience working with Infrastructure as Code using tools like Terraform, and AWS
What we offer
Relocation package:
- Visa services (work visa sponsorship)
- Assistance in getting a work permit
- Airport pick-up
- Adaptation tips
- Assistance in finding rent/accommodation
- Flight coverage