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.

Key Responsibilities

• Technical Leadership: Provide 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.
• Research and Analysis: Conduct directed research and technical analysis of new candidate technologies that meet business or technical needs.
• Mentorship: Provide technical advice, act as a role model for teammates, and execute complicated plans while navigating many levels of the organization.
• Project Management: Contribute to, define, and track project-level work on large technical projects while ensuring visibility to the team.
• Training and Development: Deliver technical training on portions of the Hootsuite technology and product stack.
• Process Improvement: Contribute enhancements to development, build, deployment, and monitoring processes with an emphasis on security, reliability, and performance.
• Hiring and Recruitment: Participate in the development of the technical hiring process and interview scripts to attract and hire the best developers.

Required Skills and Experience

• Professional and specialized experience in software development, 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 skills 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.

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 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.
• Customer Obsessed: Focus relentlessly on helping our customers succeed.
• Go Fast, Be Agile: Commit to speed and simplicity over perfection and complexity.
• Play to Win: Build an incredible, profitable company for our customers, employees, and stakeholders.
• Neighbours & Allies: Give back to our communities and be an ally.

Compensation

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

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