Technical Lead - Home Solutions Commerce - TELUS Digital
Vancouver, British Columbia, CA
Description
Create awesome experiences for our customers.
Join our team
We’re a customer-driven and product-minded team within TELUS, responsible for our company’s digital evolution. We simplify the path to production so teams can focus on what matters most.
TELUS Digital’s mission is to make life easier for millions of customers – and for our team. We build smart, customer-centric and data-driven experiences for telus.com, TELUS.com/business and the My TELUS app.
Our team includes a passionate group of strategists, UX and visual designers, full stack developers, content managers, scrum masters, testers, product owners, people experience specialists, and other digital experts.
Learn more about our team at telus.com/digital
Here’s the impact you’ll make and what we’ll accomplish together:
You are an experienced, hands-on lead full stack developer, who has led teams in shipping large-scale applications. You are a mentor and guiding voice for developers, who can balance day-to-day workload, with an eye for future improvements of your team and their work.
As a Tech Lead with TELUS Digital, you will be collaborating with internal and external project teams to design, build and operate the software applications which enable innovative, data-driven, customer centric digital experiences for TELUS customers.
You will be working as part of a friendly, cross-discipline agile team who helps each other solve problems across all functions. As a custodian of customer trust, you will employ best practice in development, security, accessibility and design to achieve the highest quality of service for our customers.
We use a range of technologies to get the job done: JavaScript coupled with Webpack, React, Redux and other libraries to provide a modern, easy to use Javascript toolchain. A central Design System is used for styling and hosts shared components, while our RESTful APIs are built with Node.js powering our custom services. Quality is a primary concern and we test our applications at multiple levels with Automation Testers and Product Owners embedded within teams.
Here’s how:
- Lead the technical team to execute on the product owner’s roadmap
- Leading the mentorship and upskilling of more junior developers and being responsible for the delegation of mentorship within the team
- Maintain applications and ensure they are up to date and secure
- Guide and implement Squad’s architectural “direction” within the portfolio
- Write code and understand the ins and outs of the application
- Point of contact for other teams to ensure integration is smooth in the commerce flow
- Technical interviews and assessments of candidates applying for roles
- Advise on technical feasibility, review visual design and work through technical implications with designers
- Facilitating pair programming and developer day to day support
- Coordinate and facilitate professional developer meetings across the tribe - coding exercises, jam sessions and playing with new technology
- Support ad hoc technical delivery of the team
- Advocating and reinforce code by adhering to accessibility and performance standards
- Uphold standards of coding & standard methodologies
Qualifications
You're the missing piece of the puzzle:
- Confirmed history of excelling in a team based collaborative environment
- Experience mentoring junior team members, coordinating code quality and evangelizing standard methodologies
- Experience in translating technical concepts and requirements for non-technical partners
- Highly skillful in front-end development (Latest JavaScript standard, React, CSS)
- Experienced knowledge of backend development (we use Node.js, PostgreSQL, Redis)
- Experience in client-side testing best practices and tooling
- Expert level knowledge of Javascript (Latest JS standard)
- Experience with React and Redux
- Proven Experience interacting with APIs (we use Node.js, Express, OpenAPI Spec)
- Proven Experience in building scalable production services and monitoring performance (we use Kibana, New Relic)
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and deploying application code
- Experience with FRP (functional, reactive programming)
Great-to-haves:
- Experience with securing applications to common security threats (OWASP Standards)
- Experience designing, building, and maintaining High Availability systems
- Experience in creating and socializing technology roadmaps
- Experience with the Docker ecosystem
- Experience with GCP and/or Openshift ecosystems
- Experience with Contentful CMS
- Experience with micro-frontend architecture and frameworks, e.g. Storybook
- Experience with Inclusive development and a11y best practices
- Experience with securing applications to common security threats (OWASP Standards)
- Experience with Web/HTTP security controls (CORS, CSP, TLS, etc ...)
- Experience designing, building, and maintaining High Availability systems
- Experience with GCP and/or Openshift ecosystems
- Familiar with accessibility (WCAG 2) best practices