Senior Developer; Team Lead

About Univerus

Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Burnaby, British Columbia, Univerus is a fast‑growing enterprise software company specializing in vertical market solutions. With over 300 employees, more than 20 acquisitions, and a global customer base exceeding 3,500 organizations, Univerus delivers mission‑critical technology across public and private sectors. Our flagship product, Unity ERP, powers operations in local government, utilities, construction, manufacturing, health and safety, education, and beyond.

• Hours:
  
  40 hours per week
• Salary Range: CAD $120K - $130K
• Location:
  
  Remote - Canada
• This is a new position with our Sports & Recreation BU.

We are hiring a Senior Developer (Team Lead) to drive meaningful product outcomes through hands‑on delivery and strong technical leadership. This role is for someone who can act independently, solve ambiguous problems end‑to‑end, and manage a team of developers to move multiple initiatives forward.

A core reality of this role is that we work across legacy products with multiple technologies and architectures. You must be comfortable operating in many different tech stacks, quickly learning unfamiliar languages and frameworks, and making pragmatic decisions in environments that are not greenfield. You will also play a leading role in building modern, efficient, AI‑driven processes that accelerate our software modernization effort, while improving quality, consistency, and delivery speed.

You will be central to executing our product vision, including our AI strategy and our Unity strategy (our internal centralization platform).

• Own technical execution for key initiatives from discovery through delivery and support.
• Break down ambiguous problems into clear plans, milestones, and implementation steps.
• Make sound architectural decisions, balancing speed, maintainability, risk, and long‑term modernization needs.
• Contribute hands‑on, production‑grade code across a variety of languages and stacks, with the ability to ramp up quickly in unfamiliar systems.
• Identify and address root causes of reliability, performance, and maintainability issues in legacy environments.

• Lead modernization efforts across legacy products, including incremental refactors, component replacement, improved testing, and documentation.
• Establish practical patterns for improving older codebases without disrupting customers or release timelines.
• Advocate for and implement improvements to code health, build/release pipelines, and observability to support modernization at scale.
• Drive technical decision‑making that reduces complexity and lowers the cost of change over time.

• Build and implement modern, efficient, AI‑driven processes that accelerate delivery and modernization.
• Examples include AI‑assisted analysis of legacy codebases, dependency mapping, and risk identification.
• Automated documentation and knowledge capture for legacy systems.
• AI‑supported test generation, regression coverage expansion, and defect triage.
• Tooling that improves developer productivity (scaffolding, refactor assistance, review support).
• Translate AI strategy into concrete workflows, tools, and features that improve engineering throughput and product outcomes.
• Ensure AI‑enabled processes are safe, reliable, and measurable (quality gates, human‑in‑the‑loop controls, monitoring).

• Lead and manage a team of developers (prioritization, task breakdown, coaching, performance support, and day‑to‑day execution).
• Establish a predictable delivery rhythm, including planning, estimation, review cycles, and accountability to outcomes.
• Mentor developers through pairing, design reviews, code reviews, and feedback.
• Promote best practices across the team (testing, CI/CD, security, observability, documentation), tailored to the realities of legacy systems.

• Help define and build shared services, components, and integration patterns that unify products.
• Drive adoption of platform capabilities that reduce…