Staff Software Developer (Frontend)

Job Overview

We are seeking a Staff Software Developer (Frontend) to join our team and drive the advancement of our product’s quality, performance, and security. This role involves working on complex technical problems across multiple teams and actively searching for solutions that empower our teams to iterate faster. You will report to the Manager of Software Development and have the flexibility to work remotely or in a hybrid model, in line with Hootsuite's distributed workforce strategy. This position is open to applicants currently located in Canada or the US.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical guidance and leadership through the design, implementation, and delivery of large technical projects that cross-cut products, such as upgrading system versions and refactoring integral product components.
• Conduct directed research and technical analysis of new candidate technologies that meet a development team’s business or technical needs.
• Offer technical advice, act as a role model for teammates, flawlessly execute complicated plans, and navigate many levels of the organization.
• Contribute to, define, and track project-level work on large technical projects while ensuring visibility to the team.
• Deliver technical training on your portions of the Hootsuite technology and product stack.
• Enhance development, build, deployment, and monitoring processes with an emphasis on security, reliability, and performance.
• Deliver process improvements that increase ease of adoption and implementation by your entire team.
• Participate in the development of the technical hiring process and interview scripts to attract and hire the best developers.

Requirements

• Professional and specialized experience in your field, with a minimum of two roles or companies building your experience base.
• Experience in leading the design, development, and deployment of multiple systems or products.
• Ability to think in terms of optimal technical solutions for business problems.
• Effective collaboration on business problems with non-technical peers in the organization.
• Experience with mentoring, coaching, and pairing with coworkers.
• Experience conducting technical interviews with developers at various levels of experience.
• Ability to plan, articulate, and gain organizational alignment on a technical vision.
• Proven ability to deliver both customer value and innovative technical solutions.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.

Who You Are

• Tenacious: Determined to succeed and motivated by the success of customers, colleagues, and the community.
• Curious: Always learning and seeking ways to make things better.
• Conscientious: Keep promises, take commitments to others seriously, and have strong integrity.
• Humble: Lead with humility and empathy, respecting and learning from the perspectives of others.

Guiding Principles

• Step Up: Show the world what it looks like to live and work by these guiding principles.
• One Team: Make Hootsuite a place where everyone feels safe, welcome, valued, and empowered to do their best work without compromising who they are.
• Customer Obsessed: Focus relentlessly on helping our customers succeed.
• Go Fast, Be Agile: Widen our competitive advantage by committing to speed and simplicity over perfection and complexity.
• Play to Win: Commit to building an incredible, profitable company for our customers, employees, and stakeholders.
• Neighbours & Allies: Give back to our communities and be an ally.

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

Compensation

• Canada Pay Range: $123,000—$172,400 CAD
• US Pay Range: $130,000—$182,000 USD