Software Development Manager, Data Lake (Calgary, Canada)

About the role 

We are seeking an experienced Software Development Manager to lead our data lake / data warehouse team in scaling our platform capabilities at a critical growth stage. In this role, you will coach and mentor your team while navigating the delicate balance between rapidly delivering data infrastructure to meet business commitments and upholding technical excellence in our codebase. With a keen ability to make strategic decisions amidst ambiguity, you will strategically prioritize projects that maximize impact.

You will join Syndio at an exciting juncture as we invest in evolving our platform to meet increasingly complex user needs around workplace equity and fairness analytics. Your software development leadership, guidance, and collaboration in building scalable software solutions will be vital to our product's success. As an advocate for your team, you will create an environment that empowers developers to solve interesting technical challenges and innovate across our product suite.

This is a unique opportunity to have a meaningful impact in shaping Syndio's future as we strive to help organizations analyze, resolve, and prevent insidious pay disparities. Your software expertise and vision will directly influence how we scale our platform to meet the demands of a rapidly growing customer base.

Why this job is exciting

• Manage a team of highly skilled backend developers - providing a positive work environment by coaching, and advocate for them.
• Provide technical leadership to the developers and be responsible for technical decisions made by your team
• Share your expertise in the Google Cloud Platform Data toolsets
• Contribute to and guide the organization’s data related best practices, such as process improvements and communication
• Work with the entire organization (backend, frontend, product, and site reliability) to ensure projects meet all team requirements
• Create a culture of diversity and belonging while also leading the hiring processes
• Document, plan, and drive the execution of team decisions
• Our tech stack: Golang and Python on the backend, React and TypeScript on the Frontend, running Kubernetes on GCP. Data Warehouse: BigQuery, Dataflow, etc

About You

• You are a compassionate mentor, able to raise the bar of your teammates.
• You have proven collaboration skills across teams of product and engineering resources.
• You are ready to work with teams across the organization to ensure the needs of everyone are met as well as can be.
• You have excellent communication skills that enable you to interface with both technical and non-technical teams.
• Passion for being a people champion, set the bar for high performance.
• You bring problem-solving and critical thinking skills to our dynamic startup environment.
• You have experience in enterprise technology applications architecture, design, development, and maintenance, with a strong focus on performance, reliability, and security.

• Check out our Employee Experience page for more information on our Mission & Values, Work-Life Balance, Pay Transparency, Diversity, Culture, and Benefits
• 💰 Competitive Compensation. For this role our base salary is targeted at $158-188k CAD. Final offer amounts are determined by factors such as experience and expertise
• 🏆  Syndio Equity. So you can share in Syndio’s success
• 🏝 20 days annually. We encourage our team to recharge when they need to, plus paid sick & safe time, compassion leave, and voting leave
• 🏦 Pension Contribution
• 📍 Remote-First (within commuting distance of Calgary) #LI-Remote 

Role progression

• Within 1 month, you’ll understand the strengths and weaknesses of our current platform and our engineering squad. You will be working on small designs and projects, formulating opinions / making proposals on improving engineering processes, and mentoring engineers in their personal growth.
• Within 6 months, you’ll be leading efforts to improve the lives of the engineering team and everyone who interacts with them; you’ll be contributing to greater overall happiness of the team.
• Within 12 months, you’ll be celebrating with the team as we’re launching new products and features better than we ever have before.