Lead Developer, Community Engagement (digital Strategy And Product) (english Services)

Lead Developer, Community Engagement (Digital Strategy And Product) (English Services)

At the CBC, we all have a story to tell. What's yours?

If you share our passion for Canadian storytelling and you wish to help us engage with individuals and communities across our various digital platforms, this is where you'll want to be!

Every day, you will have an opportunity to shape the way in which Canadians see themselves reflected in our digital services. Your work will have a direct impact on how millions of Canadians from various communities connect with our products, with one another, and with the diverse voices that make our country so unique.

You will have the opportunity to play a part in enlightening and entertaining Canadians through our innovative work in building the mediums that deliver our content. We are an innovative hub, where the talented professionals we work with are respected and valued for their contributions. Our product teams are vibrant and our work culture strives to achieve the highest standards of diversity and inclusion. We believe that hiring people with different career paths and backgrounds is fundamental in our shared success and in building healthy and highly performant teams. When you join our mission, you are not only shaping the vision of the CBC, but the future of our country.

Why is this role important?

We are building a Community Engagement Team that will play a central role in building new conversational spaces for CBC's digital audiences. The team is responsible for CBC's participation in the Public Spaces Incubator (PSI), an international project designed to encourage civic engagement and civil discourse online.

In this Lead Developer role, you'll be the founding technical leader for CBC's PSI project. This means you'll have a central role in shaping the technical direction of the project, from building the initial architecture to growing and mentoring a new team. You'll help integrate PSI's functionality into the existing web product offering. You'll help design the architecture and develop new features and explore new ways for our audiences to engage with our content. You'll help build and grow a team of developers, eventually having a team of developers reporting to you, with the support of our senior engineering manager.

How you will make an impact:

• You'll manage the technical implementation of CBC's PSI project, including integrating 3rd party code and developing new features and functionality.
• You'll advise on design and architecture for our community and engagement features, as well as integration with the existing web product offering.
• You will help build and grow a new team, working with our senior engineering managers to define team structure and staff the technical roles.
• You will supervise the developers on the team. They will be reporting directly to you, with support from senior management. You'll provide mentorship and feedback to them while supporting their needs.
• You'll collaborate with other team leads to plan, scope, and prioritize new features. You'll engage with user testing and feasibility assessments, while supporting the development process on the team. Leading design and code reviews; mentoring developers.
• You will promote software engineering best practices, review work, provide feedback on technical decisions, taking ownership when it needs to happen. You will help build and improve release processes, deployments, and incident reviews as needed. Providing input and feedback on technical decisions, and taking ownership when it needs to happen.
• You will collaborate with UX designers and researchers to deliver the best possible audience experience and enable inclusive and accessibility-first design to thrive.
• You'll help teams build and execute a strategy for quality management and testing.

If it sounds like this is a role you are ready for, you probably:

• Have three or more years of experience in a senior development role and a demonstrated ability to provide technical and team leadership for other developers.
• Have experience with mentoring and giving guidance to other developers.
• Are experienced in coding standards, quality management, source code management, continuous integration, release management.
• Have a degree or diploma in a Software Development, Engineering, or other related discipline, or have acquired your skills through experience and other means.
• Have knowledge in the web development lifecycle and Agile best practices.
• Have expertise in javascript and working familiarity with React or other front end frameworks, and stay up to date on the latest web architectural patterns and components.
• Are knowledgeable in automated testing, its constraints, and how to build quality management processes.
• Are experienced in leading and improving release management processes.
• Have excellent communication skills, with the ability to facilitate technical discussions and solicit buy-in on technical decisions.
• Are an advocate for diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility in your workplace and understand the positive advantage this commitment gives to your work.
• Are comfortable working with remote team members.

Perks you can look forward to:

• Flexible work schedules, allowing you to prioritize yourself, your family and your work;
• The ability to work from anywhere across Canada;
• Dedicated time for innovation, learning, development, and innovation; wherever your interests lie;
• Opportunities to learn the ins and outs of how a world-class media broadcast organization operates;
• Opportunities to collaborate with staff from all walks of life with different life and professional experiences and to become a member of our Employee Resource Groups;
• Pairing and mentorship opportunities, where you can learn from the best in the industry and help coach new talent;
• A creative and dynamic work environment, where your ideas and contributions can be heard, valued and respected;
• A supportive management team committed to upholding the highest standards of diversity and inclusivity;
• An environment which favours experimentation and an iterative approach in order to achieve the highest form of technical innovation.

Note: This is an 18-month contract position.

If you're excited by the challenge of building a new kind of online community and have the technical leadership skills to make it happen, we encourage you to apply.

Candidates may be subject to skills and knowledge testing.

We thank all applicants for their interest, but only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.

As part of our recruitment process, candidates who advance to the next step will be asked to complete a background check. This includes:

• A mandatory Criminal record check.
• Other background checks may be conducted based on the operational requirements of the position.

CBC/Radio-Canada is committed to being a leader in reflecting our country's diversity. That's because we can only create and tell the stories that connect Canadians, by having a workforce that mirrors the ever-changing makeup of our country. That's why we, as an employer, value equal opportunity and nurture an inclusive workplace where our individual differences are not only recognized and valued, but also extend to and pervade all the services we provide as Canada's public broadcaster. For more information, visit the Diversity and Inclusion section of our website. If you have accommodation needs at this stage of the recruitment process, please inform us as soon as possible by sending an email to recruitment@cbc.ca. You are invited to consult and familiarize yourself with our Code of Conduct, which can be found on our corporate website. All employees must adhere to the Code as a condition of employment. We also invite you to take a look at our policy on conflicts of interest. In the event that you become an employee, it will be important to inform us, as quickly as possible, of any situation that, because of your hiring, constitutes or could appear to constitute a conflict of interest.

Primary Location: Broadcast Centre 205 Wellington St. W., Toronto, Ontario, M5V 3G7

Number of Openings: 1

Work Schedule: Full time