Lead Software Developer - #439484

The Role

As a Lead Software Developer, you will have the opportunity to lead your team as they work on cutting-edge cloud technologies and be at the forefront of innovation for Seequent. You'll play a crucial role in developing our market-leading eco-system of solutions, Seequent Evo. You’ll be a motivator, mentor and a leader, overseeing the development process and its outcomes.

Specifically, you will be leading our Driver product team. Driver is a cloud-based geoscience auto modeling application that leverages advanced machine learning techniques to help users quickly derive insights from their geoscience drilling data.

As a key member of this small, dynamic development team, you'll have the opportunity to be at the forefront of innovation, directly contributing to the development of our market-leading solutions. While you'll have people-management responsibilities, this role emphasizes technical leadership—meaning you'll actively code, contribute to software architecture decisions, and guide technical direction within the team.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to:

Oversee Development

• Working with Product Managers and Product Designers in the selection, specification, scheduling and estimation of product features.
• Prioritisation and allocation of feature development and quality assurance work within the pod.
• Coordination of quality assurance and production stability along with automated testing of the products.
• Actively participating in day-to-day software development, providing technical leadership, and directly contributing code to product features.

Participate in Software Maintenance and Development

• Develop and maintain software for various projects and libraries as requested and application of commercial computer programming skills.
• Actively maintain the health and reliability of the web application through live monitoring, observability tools, and timely response to incidents or outages in production environments.
• Participate in code reviews, pair-programming, automation, and other activities to promote mastery of software engineering best practices.

Lead and Manage People

• Contribute to strategic technical leadership in decisions affecting the development of software products.
• Mentor, coach, and provide opportunities for professional development to your team members. Working closely with the Software Engineering Manager on long term team goals.
• Manage the team effectively by providing operational direction in their day-to-day work and ensuring their work is aligned with the wider company goals.
• Complete annual Talent Reviews for pod members and conduct quarterly career conversations and Success Sessions.
• Champion of Seequent’s culture and set a good example for others.

To be successful in this role, you should have:

• Experience and enthusiasm for agile development methodologies.
• Ability to operate as a coach and mentor.
• Ability to manage a team’s workflow.
• Motivated to work to a high standard and ensure others are working to the same high standards.
• Ability to provide and receive feedback from a number of sources and to grow personally and professionally from it.
• Excellent interpersonal skills to develop and build sustainable working relationships.
• The ability to be persistent, patient, innovative, and work in a fast paced and constantly changing environment.
• Absolute discretion when dealing with confidential and sensitive work.

In addition, the following technical qualifications, experience and skills set is required

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering or equivalent
• 7+ years working with cloud providers and technologies
• 1+ year as a lead or technical leader of a team of Software Engineers would be an advantage
• Experience with or curiosity to learn the following tools: Python, C++, Kubernetes, React, Typescript, Cypress
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code
• Experience working with cloud providers like Azure and AWS or GCP
• Familiarity with CI/CD Pipelines (i.e. GitHub, Gitlab, etc.)
• Experience with or desire to learn 3D rendering and spatial data modelling techniques

Additional Information

Our Software Development Manager is here to provide support, direction, and inspiration. This is a hybrid role, and so you are required to be in the Vancouver Seequent office 2 days a week. You will have responsibility for the coordination of development with the Evo Platform team. You will also work with and get support from external parties and across the entire Seequent team.

Seequent have committed to providing a well-supported and professional office environment. Therefore, the budget will be in place to ensure this commitment is met.

Seequent will provide you opportunities to extend your professional skills by giving you ownership of projects. We will also support your development with a mixture of on-the-job coaching and external training

Direct Reports

You will be responsible for the daily management of the following roles where applicable:

• Senior Software Engineers
• Software Engineers

You will also be required to work in close collaboration with cross functional teams to guide and influence development outcomes.