TECHNICAL LEAD - Full Stack Development

Work Model: Fully Remote (Within Canada)

Salary Range: $140,000 - $170,000 Base + 10% Bonus

Vacation: 4 Weeks

About Our Client

Our client is a rapidly growing, award-winning InsurTech leader that is redefining commercial insurance for Canadian businesses. Recognized consistently as a top employer and named to Deloitte’s Technology Fast 50 list for multiple consecutive years, they combine advanced digital technology with deep industry expertise. They operate with a remote-first culture built on ownership, collaboration, innovation, and continuous learning.

General Role Info

As a Technical Lead, you will bring deep full-stack engineering expertise to help steer the technical direction of either the Core or Payments engineering teams. You will reinforce a culture of iterative, autonomous development, with a heavy focus on scalability, security, and high-quality deployment.

Reporting to the Engineering Manager, you will work closely with Product Managers, Team Leads, and Staff Developers to design and implement robust front-end applications and back-end APIs. This role blends hands-on production-ready coding with architectural planning, mentorship, and cross-functional leadership.

NOTE - if you feel this is a strong fit for you and you possess the below must have qualifications please feel free to forward your CV directly to me at ANDY.WETTLAUFER@RANDSTADDIGITAL.COM - due to volumes, only those who meet the must-have requirements, and have them demonstrated on their up-to-date CV will be contacted for next steps.

Main Responsibilities

• Technical Leadership & Architecture: Design, build, and implement scalable apps and libraries. Discuss strategies, highlight architectural tradeoffs, and manage technical debt/bug prioritization.
• Product Collaboration: Partner with Product Management to analyze organizational objectives, refine roadmap items into epics, and break them down into actionable backlog tickets.
• Security & Infrastructure: Implement systems, infrastructure, and third-party integrations with a security-first mindset, adhering to organizational security strategies.
• Code Quality & Testing: Perform rigorous code reviews, utilize quality metrics to identify testing gaps, and write comprehensive unit/higher-level tests to ensure application stability.
• DevOps & Integration: Manage and optimize third-party integrations, ensuring performance and security. Foster an iterative deployment culture utilizing DORA metrics to measure cycle times and failure rates.
• Mentorship & Culture: Coach and mentor development team members, expanding their technical skills. Foster a culture of documentation, research, and continuous improvement.

Must Haves

• Experience: 7+ years of experience building rich, complex, and scalable APIs (including third-party API integrations).
• Frontend Expertise: 5+ years of experience building front-end web applications using modern JavaScript frameworks.
• System Design: 2+ years of experience designing scalable and distributed systems, alongside experience architecting/augmenting large software systems.
• Tech Stack: Extensive full-stack experience working with React, Redux, Node.js, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, and JavaScript.
• Tooling & Frameworks: Strong familiarity with JavaScript tools (Webpack, Babel, Storybook) and Unit Testing frameworks (Jest, Mocha).
• Agile & DevOps: Extensive experience within the Scrum/Agile framework, including familiarity with DORA metrics.
• Soft Skills: Proven track record of mentoring developers, managing time effectively to meet deadlines, and clearly articulating complex technical ideas to stakeholder groups.
• Education: University degree/college diploma in a technical field or equivalent practical work experience.

Nice to Haves

• Experience with test automation frameworks such as Cypress, Nightwatch, Selenium, or BrowserStack.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform, Pulumi, and AWS.
• Experience with containerization tools like Docker or Kubernetes.
• Experience building or working with microservices and micro front-ends.

Benefits & Perks

• Flexible Work Environment: Fully remote setup with a home office allowance and an "office in a box" tech equipment package.
• Time Off: 4 weeks of vacation plus half-days before public holiday long weekends.
• Financial Incentives: A 10% annual discretionary bonus eligibility and performance-based incentives.
• Health & Wellness: Comprehensive, flexible health and dental plans (including mental health support), Health & Personal Spending Accounts, and parental leave top-up.
• Professional Growth: Dedicated education assistance reimbursement for courses, conferences, books, and professional memberships alongside well-defined career development tracks.
• Culture & Innovation: Semi-annual company-wide hackathons, regular tech talks, book clubs, and virtual/in-person team-building events.

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