Development Manager – Front-end Infrastructure
| Company | Clio |
|---|---|
| Location | Toronto, ON, Canada, Calgary, AB, Canada, Remote in Canada, Vancouver, BC, Canada |
| Salary | $172000 – $258000 |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | |
| Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
Requirements
- Demonstrated success in people leadership in software development, particularly with large scale SaaS products
- A strong background in hands-on frontend development and infrastructure management
- Diverse base of knowledge that allows you to help your team solve complex technical problems
- The ability to describe successful projects you worked on, as well as a collection of lessons learned from failed projects
- Demonstrated ability to hire the best and brightest engineers in a fast-paced job market—and to coach, develop, and retain engineering talent
- You are equally energized by both your own technical work as well as contributing to the career growth of your team
- You have strong opinions that are weakly held, and foster that same attitude in others
- You believe in providing honest, actionable feedback to your team, and encourage your team to reciprocate
- You devise roadmaps to guide your team, but aren’t beholden to them — you easily adapt to a constantly changing world
Responsibilities
- Collaborating with the organization to understand the challenges our frontend infrastructure faces, identify the most impactful opportunities, and craft a roadmap for the team
- Working with your team on designing technical solutions for our build systems, component libraries, and developer tooling
- Giving great feedback on code reviews, architecture documents, and more to help support team members making great technical decisions for their projects
- Actively participate as a contributor to the project, either through extensive code reviews, or shipping code
Preferred Qualifications
- A philosophy on what makes for great frontend infrastructure teams
- Experience with frontend build optimization and performance tuning
- Background in transitioning large applications from legacy frameworks to modern architectures
- Experience with Ruby on Rails, Hotwire, Angular or other modern frontend frameworks
- Track record of improving developer productivity through tooling and infrastructure improvements
- Having a 1:1 meeting with your direct reports to make sure they are supported in their career growth and development goals
- Actively participating in hiring to grow engineering team at Clio
- Reviewing code contributed by members from your team or other Clio developers reaching out to you for your experience with a given technology or pattern