Position Summary:

Our software development team is continuously investigating new technologies and challenging the status quo to drive our product’s market success. You must be an energetic, creative, achievement-oriented self-starter who is passionate about social media, and thrives in a fast paced environment. If you are looking for constant challenges and working with cutting edge technology in an exciting technology start-up company, then this is the job for you!

What we’d like you to do:

• Lead a team of developers in an agile environment.
• Lead the architects of the software/system.
• Motivate and guide the development team in a way that is aligned with a positive and results-oriented culture. 
• Drive timely, on-target delivery of releases. 
• Provide leadership around the creation and modification of development process.
• Interface with Product Management to help define business requirements.
• Create, or ensure the creation, of functional requirements.
• Decompose, or ensure the decomposition, of functional requirements into tasks for execution by the development team (in a timely fashion).
• Support the efforts of other employees, inside or outside of the development team.
• Participate in the Technical Leadership Team, helping shape all technology aspects of the company.    
• Administrate the development work flow management system (Jira).
• Develop internal software systems and processes.
• Participate in operational support, including the system monitoring rotation.
• Participate in level 3 support.

You should be someone who is/has:

• 5+ years of relevant software development experience and 2+ years of development leadership experience.
• Knowledge of Scrum, Kanban and other agile methods of software delivery.
• Administrative knowledge of Jira.
• Scrum master training or equivalent job experience.
• Experience with development of web applications, preferably using the Microsoft .NET platform including C#
• Cloud experience, preferably in Microsoft Azure and experience operating a SaaS product.
• Client-side web programming using technologies such as HTML5, AngularJS and Bootstrap
• Server-side Javascript programming including NodeJS
• SQL Azure and Elastic Search
• User Interface design and development
• Agile development
• A quick learner of new technologies, programming languages and development platforms
• Good skills in documentation and writing clear, readable and highly maintainable code
• University or College degree in Computer Science with demonstrated excellence in your field of study.
• Some knowledge and background in the Social Media space.
• Good written and verbal communication skills
• Self-motivated with the ability to work independently, retain flexibility and maintain composure under pressure.
• Energy and creativity a must, with strong problem solving skills.
• Due to the nature of our industry, you will be asked to submit to a police background check and associated confidentiality agreement.