Team Lead, Mobile Development

We’re looking for a Team Lead, Mobile Development for our Mobile team. You’ll be working with and leading a team of talented developers to design, build, and ship high-quality products, incorporate feedback to refine and improve beta releases and turn beta releases into production-ready, scalable products suitable for new and existing customers. In line with Hootsuite's distributed workforce strategy, our flexible work arrangement allows for remote work or a hybrid model. This role is open to applicants located in BC, Alberta, and Ontario. In this role, you will report to the Senior Manager, Software Development.

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

• Collaborate with and lead your team to design, build, test, and ship high-quality software to Hootsuite’s customers, dividing your time between people leadership responsibilities and writing code
• Share your iOS and/or Android development expertise while leading a team of iOS, Android and backend developers
• Facilitate ongoing development conversations with your team to support their learning and career growth
• Help shape your team's and Hootsuite’s technical roadmap
• Be a technical resource and sounding board; participate in technical interviews for development team hires
• Manage and coach a team 
• Shape Hootsuite's culture, and your team's, through improved tooling, streamlining processes and working across product boundaries
• Establish and maintain high standards of security, reliability, scalability, performance, and quality in all delivered projects
• Proactively share information, actively solicit feedback, and facilitate communication for multiple stakeholders
• The technologies you will be working with: Swift, Kotlin, Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile, RxSwift/RxJava

WHAT YOU’LL NEED:

• A degree in Computer Science or Engineering, and significant relevant experience designing, developing and maintaining software including considerable experience developing native mobile applications or an equivalent level of work experience, and a track record of substantial contributions to software projects with high business impact
• Expertise in iOS (Swift, Objective C a plus, Apple and third-party frameworks) and/or Android (Kotlin, Java a plus, Google and third-party frameworks) development and knowledge of modern architecture patterns such as MVVM, MVI, Clean Architecture
• Experience with leading, mentoring, coaching, and pairing with coworkers
• Experience writing clean code that performs well at scale
• An understanding of SaaS software development practice, previous experience working on a SaaS product will be viewed favorably
• Collaboration and Teamwork: works with others to deliver results, meaningfully contributing to the team and prioritizing group needs over individual needs
• Creativity and Innovation: seeks new and better ways of doing things, generating original and imaginative ideas, products, and/or solutions
• Problem 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
• Priority Setting: focuses time/energy on the most important issues/opportunities. Clearly understand how to assess the importance of tasks and decisions
• Process/Project Management: skilled at figuring out and managing the processes and timelines necessary to get work accomplished
• Resilience, Tolerance for Change/Ambiguity: can effectively cope with change, finding ways to advance work and projects

WHO YOU ARE:

• Tenacious. You are determined to succeed, and you are motivated by the success of customers, colleagues and the community
• Curious. You are always learning and seeking ways to make things better
• Conscientious. You keep your promises, taking your commitments to others seriously, and you have strong integrity
• Humble. You lead with humility and empathy, respecting and learning from the perspectives of others

In all we do, our six guiding principles light the way:

Step Up: Show the world what it looks like to live and work by these guiding principles. #StepUp

One Team: Make Hootsuite a place where everyone feels safe, welcome, valued, and empowered to do their best  work without compromising who they are. #OneTeam #FreeToBeMe

Customer Obsessed: Focus relentlessly on helping our customers succeed. #CustomerObsessed

Go Fast, Be Agile: Widen our competitive advantage by committing to speed and simplicity over perfection and complexity. #GoFastBeAgile

Play to Win: Commit to building an incredible, profitable company for our customers, our employees, and our stakeholders. #PlayToWin #NoExcuses

Neighbours & Allies: Give back to our communities and be an ally. #SocialForGood #Allies

Accommodations will be provided as requested by candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

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