Team Lead, Software Development

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Geotab ® is a global leader in IoT and connected transportation and certified “Great Place to Work™.” We are a company of diverse and talented individuals who work together to help businesses grow and succeed, and increase the safety and sustainability of our communities.

Geotab is advancing security, connecting commercial vehicles to the internet and providing web-based analytics to help customers better manage their fleets. Geotab’s open platform and Geotab Marketplace ®, offering hundreds of third‑party solution options, allows both small and large businesses to automate operations by integrating vehicle data with their other data assets. Processing billions of data points a day, Geotab leverages data analytics and machine learning to improve productivity, optimize fleets through the reduction of fuel consumption, enhance driver safety and achieve strong compliance to regulatory changes.

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Geotab is seeking a Team Lead, Software Development who will assist with the day-to-day operation, coaching and mentorship of various software development teams leveraging expert knowledge in front and back end programming languages.

The Team Lead,Software Development will lead a team that builds a web-based, state-of-the-art, telematics platform that makes sense of the data collected by our custom-built hardware. This includes designing, building, and maintaining efficient, reusable, reliable code to develop high throughput, performance critical, scalable applications.

• Manage software development projects; develop and implement efficient, clean code with assigned team that satisfies customer requirements.
• Manage an Agile software development team with regards to planning, task assignments, work arrangements and other Software Development Department expectations.
• Ensure work progress stays on schedule and update stakeholders on project status.
• Install, manage, measure and change an Agile development process, e.g., SCRUM, Kanban.
• Collaborate with other development teams on design and implementation of features spanning multiple products.
• Conduct comprehensive testing and code reviews to ensure that code quality is maximized and best-practices are followed.
• Participate in development of prototypes, minimum viable products and PoCs.
• Appropriately document system design and architecture such that it is easy to understand, maintain and extend.
• Provide expert project‑leadership and guidance to the team as a SME.
• Oversee the activities and performance of direct reports.
• Provide direction, coaching and mentorship to the team.
• Engage in the development of the team by coaching, providing feedback, identifying areas of growth and training opportunities.
• Collaborate and support employees during the performance management process, meeting KPAs and career development planning.
• Support Geotab global strategic initiatives.
• Participate in a 24x7 on‑call rotating schedule.

• 4+ years experience as a Software Developer using object-oriented programming to build scalable enterprise‑level applications.
• Leadership experience in a team‑oriented workplace.
• Experience with C#, Google Compute Engine and Google Big Query.
• Experience with SQL and Postgres database design, optimization and writing queries.
• Working knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes and messaging queues such as Kafka.
• Knowledge of multiple general‑purpose programming languages (e.g. C#, Java, Python).
• Proficiency in Git, or some other distributed…