Hybrid Working Environment
Flexible Working Hours For Work Life Balance
Not-For-Profit Focused

About Us
Stride provides world-class lottery management services and technology to charities and non-profits across Canada.

Stride Management is part of the Jumbo Interactive Group (ASX-300 JIN): An innovative technology company that has grown remarkably over the past 25 years, from humble beginnings with a single computer to a thriving global technology business.

What sets us apart is our unwavering focus on creating possibilities. We develop cutting-edge solutions empowering our not-for-profit and charity partners to raise funds for their vital causes.

Who are we looking for?
We are looking for a passionate and creative Software Development Team Lead to help us grow to the next level. Someone with a passion for technical innovation, driven, an innovator looking to make a profound impact across our industry, our organisation and our development team.

We are looking for you to bring to the role:

Proven Leadership experience and ability to build a team through internal and external resources
Experience in application development and responsive UI design.
Experience with Microsoft ASP, C#, MSSQL, JavaScript, jQuery, AJAX, CSS, Sass, Vue.js, Nuxt framework, bootstrap, google for analytics (G4A), HTML, Containerisation via Docker and version control with Git/Github
A scrum and agile mindset
Experience with Restful APIs, and integrations with 3rd party solutions.
Experience in creating and maintaining a test automation strategy and plan.
Experience working with Windows Servers, networking and VMWare.
A background working with mobile app test tools and testing.
Exposure to SaaS architectures, ElasticSearch and data analytics.
Ability to understand frameworks, ensuring the best architecture decisions are made and are feasible for the team
What will you be doing?
This newly created role reports to the Director of Product and Technology, you'll be directly responsible for leading a full-stack team of software developers and testers (internal and external resources). You'll manage people and their work to help drive the team forward and have a strategic impact across many teams and be able to tackle deep technical problems.

This is a hands-on role, and as such, you are a contributor to writing code, core projects, as well as side and experimental work. You give technical direction, leadership, and guidance to your team, to produce better outcomes.

As well as:

Using a Scrum Agile delivery model, you'll plan and organise day-to-day work for the team.
You'll help the team define develop, deploy and maintain features
Build a high-performance culture - leading, coaching, guiding, and inspiring your development and QA teams
Collaborate with Product Management on product roadmap, direction, and technical innovation.
Build and support a scrum agile delivery model through your teams, with adherence to all ceremonies, systems and documentation use. Ensuring delivery to iterative releases using CI/CD, automated testing, and other agile best practices.
Translating requirements and direction into architectural designs directly and through your team, taking into consideration workflows, responsive UI, performance, scalability, and extensibility.
Give actionable metrics and insights into the performance of the engineering team
Drive the design, implementation, and delivery of new functionality to meet business requirements.
Driving product quality by following software development best practices.
Ensuring the creation of all documentation and artefacts to the extent that all Dev., QA, Tech Writers, and Support can understand the implementation.
Salary: $110,000 CAD p/a

Find Your Freedom At Stride:
At Stride, we're all about ensuring our team thrives, as a valued member, look forward to:

Commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion across the employee career journey,
An Employee Assistance Program where you can access counselling and coaching sessions,
Focus on talent management, including career and skills development,
Health & Wellbeing activities,
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging is at the heart of everything we do. All team members have an equal voice and opportunity to thrive. We foster a safe environment where our unique perspectives are celebrated, valued, and truly included and we can bring our authentic selves to work.

We are a 2024 Circle Back Initiative Platinum Employer - we commit to respond to every applicant.