We're looking for a Principal Developer to help us drive the advancement of our product’s architecture, reliability, performance, and security. You'll be working on complex technical problems across our entire software stack, while actively searching for solutions that will empower all our teams to iterate faster. In line with Hootsuite's distributed workforce strategy, our flexible work arrangement allows for remote work or a hybrid model. This role is open to applicants located in British Columbia, Alberta, or Ontario. In this role, you will report to the VP, Software Development.

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

• Provide technical guidance and leadership through the design, implementation and delivery of large technical projects that cross-cut teams and products
• Participate in the Technical Architecture Group to deliver a long term, unified architecture that delivers on the objectives of the Product and Technology visions.
• Provide technical advice, act as a role model for the Software Development department, execute complicated plans, and navigate many levels of the organization.
• Coach and mentor Senior and Staff Developers across Hootsuite to grow the capacity and experience of the team
• Conduct directed research and technical analysis of new candidate technologies that fill a development team’s business or technical need
• Contribute to, define and track project level work on large technical projects while ensuring visibility to the team.
• Contribute enhancements to development, build, deployment, and monitoring processes with an emphasis on security, reliability and performance
• Collaborate with the Software Development Leadership Team to at weekly and quarterly meetings to ensure that the software architecture is considered in all major decisions

WHAT YOU’LL NEED:

• Advanced level of related experience
• Technical Architecture: Experience leading the design and implementation of the long term architecture within a large service oriented product organization
• Technical Expertise: Deep technical expertise in the continuous delivery of web and mobile software. Master level understanding of software reliability, performance, and security. Experience driving large changes across a service oriented architecture.
• Cross-Domain Collaboration: Effective in collaborating on business problems with peers across the organization including Product, Design, Ops, Program Management, etc . Ability to connect long term technical opportunities to business needs.
• Coach & Mentor: Experience with mentoring, coaching, and pairing with senior individual contributors
• Leadership: Ability to collaboratively plan, articulate and gain organizational alignment and commitment on a technical vision.
• Customer Focus: demonstrates a desire to proactively help and serve internal and external customers meet their needs
• Open Communication: clearly conveys thoughts, both written and verbally, listening attentively and asking questions for clarification and understanding. Ability to recognize and communicate broad technical issues and contribute ideas on how to resolve them
• Decision Making: consistently chooses the best course of action (from a number of alternatives) to address business problems and/or opportunities
• Influence: Asserts own ideas and persuades others, gaining support and commitment and mobilizing people to take action
• Priority Setting: focuses time/energy on the most important issues/opportunities. Clearly understand how to assess importance of tasks and decisions
• Problem Solving: uses an organized and logical approach to find solutions to complex problems. Looks beyond the obvious to understand the root cause of problems
• External Awareness: Ability to stay on top of technical direction/frameworks beyond Hootsuite and advocate for their adoption at Hootsuite

WHO YOU ARE:

• Tenacious. You are determined to succeed, and you are motivated by the success of customers, colleagues and the community.
• Curious. You are always learning and seeking ways to make things better.
• Conscientious. You keep your promises, taking your commitments to others seriously, and you have strong integrity.
• Humble. You lead with humility and empathy, respecting and learning from the perspectives of others.

In all we do, our six guiding principles light the way:

Step Up: Show the world what it looks like to live and work by these guiding principles. #StepUp

One Team: Make Hootsuite a place where everyone feels safe, welcome, valued, and empowered to do their best work without compromising who they are. #OneTeam #FreeToBeMe

Customer Obsessed: Focus relentlessly on helping our customers succeed. #CustomerObsessed

Go Fast, Be Agile: Widen our competitive advantage by committing to speed and simplicity over perfection and complexity. #GoFastBeAgile

Play to Win: Commit to building an incredible, profitable company for our customers, our employees, and our stakeholders. #PlayToWin #NoExcuses

Neighbours & Allies: Give back to our communities and be an ally. #SocialForGood #Allies

Accommodations will be provided as requested by candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

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