Software Development Manager; Senior PHP Developer​/Team Lead

Software Development Manager (Senior PHP Developer/Team Lead)

Company:
Tipping Canoe (Canada) Ltd. o/a Pepper Business Information:
Pepper is the world's largest shopping community. From our headquarters in Berlin and offices in Belo Horizonte, Guadalajara, London, Lyon, Mumbai and Winnipeg, we operate market-leading social commerce platforms in 12 countries on four continents, which are used by 25 million unique users per month.

Business

Location:

171 McDermot Ave., Winnipeg MB, R3B 0S1

Work Location:

Same as above

Note:

Telecommuting available during the pandemic
Type of Employment:
Full time – Permanent
Estimated

Start Date:

As soon as possible

We are looking for an experienced and passionate Software Development Manager (Software PHP Manager) to join our IT Team in Winnipeg. You will play a central role in our data-driven strategy, crafting high-quality and elegant code for our communities around the world.

Key Responsibilities:

• Plan, organize, direct, control and evaluate daily operations
• Recruit, train and supervise staff
• Meet with staff to discuss system requirements, specifications, costs and timelines
• Code for internal platforms
• Implement, fix and make changes on the platforms as requested
• Participate in meeting with other department members in order to develop internal procedures
• Lead a team of Backend/Frontend engineers

Education:

A certification as a programmer is required

Experience:

Due to the critical projects we handle, the candidate must have a minimum of 5 years of experience as a PHP developer. Additional experience in systems analysis, data administration, software engineering, network design, web developing or computer programming, including supervisory experience is a great asset. At least 1 year of experience as a team leader is required

Technical Requirements:

• Experience with PHP frameworks (Laravel, Yii, FuelPHP, Symfony, Zend)
• Unit testing and integration tests
• SCM (git or svn)
• TDD (PHPUnit) or BDD (Behat or Codeception)
• Composer / Packagist
• Continuous integration (with Jenkins, Travis
  
  CI, etc.) and containerization and docker
• Experience with Elasticsearch/Solr, Mongo
  
  DB, Couch
  
  DB, Redis, or Memcache is a strong asset

Salary: $55.29 per hour, 40 hours per week.
Benefits:
Dental, Vision care, Medical and Group Insurance benefits, Transport allowance covered by the employer (once the pandemic situation is over), Professional development opportunities including training and further education, days for learning new technologies and skills, 5 Personal Development days, Employee Assistance Program

Important information:
Monday to Friday, work schedule is from 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM. Telecommuting is available during the pandemic.