Position: Manager, Software Engineer (Technology Solutions)
Job Description
Key Responsibilities;
• * Owns the overall vision and approach for how we build our internally developed products and services.
• Manages team of software engineers.
• Accountable for and maintains the engineering standards, policies and principles.
• Collaborates with product management and project teams to ensure greatest value achieved for the company through the engineering team’s work
• Works with management team to shape the strategy and overall direction of for the technology products developed and maintained in house to support business objectives.
• Leads software engineering team in the design and development of high-volume, high-performance, high-availability, VOD publishing, workflows, reporting, integrations, applications using modern frameworks and technologies.
• Works with project teams on scoping and timeline estimates for software development initiatives.
• Creates functional requirements and technical design documentation.
• Understands and works with You Tube and other diverse 3rd party APIs to build and maintain delivery scheduling and reporting tools.
• Leads the development of middleware to provide integration between first- and third-party systems, databases, and tools
• Works closely with platform engineering team to design robust, cost-efficient workloads to run in AWS and Wild Brain’s private cloud
• Owns the strategy and standards on how we write, test and deploy code.
• Reviews, validates and correlates all technical documentation.
• Retrospectively reviews the output of others to identify future improvements and advances in techniques.
Qualifications
What you'll bring;
• Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or related field and / or post graduate Internet related Certificate, or equivalent working experience
• Experience developing high traffic applications with Python and php
• Experience with SQL, at least one DBMS, Database Design, No
SQL, performance tuning and migration/ETL
• Understanding of and comfortable working with continuous integration pipelines [Git], tools [Git Hub Actions], and automation [Docker, Swarm])
• Understanding of front-end development, libraries, and frameworks (HTML5, CSS3, Javascript, jQuery UI, Bootstrap, Vue, React)
• Comfortable working in and developing for Linux environments (Ubuntu/Amazon Linux), and with bash/shell scripting
• Deep understanding of and ability to resolve issues arising from core internet technologies, concepts, and mechanisms (DNS, SSH, origin-pull CDNs, CORS, secure origin, etc)
• Understanding of working in, and developing/integrating distributed applications and microservices for, cloud environments (AWS, private cloud)
• Able to adhere to and keep up to date with current and evolving best practices relating to security and development methodologies
• Strong understanding of integrating with third party web services and systems via REST APIs
• Strong understanding of data structures, algorithms and design patterns
• Familiarity with Laravel Vapor and Laravel Nova a plus
• Familiarity with Big Query a plus
• AWS Developer certification a plus
Additional Information
What We Offer
Working at Wild Brain is more than a job — it’s the opportunity to join forces with extraordinary, insightful, and imaginative people who will recognize your talents and encourage your professional growth and development in a work environment that promotes creativity and individuality. We offer competitive benefits, and we invest in our people and their future.
Total Rewards
At Wild Brain, we strive for equitable and consistent pay practices within a robust total rewards framework. Compensation may vary within the same role based on experience, performance, specialized expertise, and overall impact.
Compensation: $110,000 - $120,000 CAD (with bonus eligibility). Base salary is part of a comprehensive total rewards package that includes:
• Paid time off
• Retirement savings with company matching
• Comprehensive health and dental coverage, with shared premium costs from day one.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Hybrid work model
Our Hiring Process
• Initial virtual screening with our Talent Acquisition team
• Interview with the hiring manager (virtual or in person, TBD)
• Interview with 2–3 key business partners (virtual or…
