Lead Developer, Embedded Engineering

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The Lead Embedded Developer is responsible for owning technical initiatives and defining the architecture for complex embedded systems. Key accountabilities include architecting and validating firmware from requirements to production, leading technical projects across the team's roadmap, and providing advanced mentorship and quality assurance through peer reviews to maintain high-throughput delivery.

The Lead Embedded Developer is responsible for owning technical initiatives and defining the architecture for complex embedded systems. Key accountabilities include architecting and validating firmware from requirements to production, leading technical projects across the team's roadmap, and providing advanced mentorship and quality assurance through peer reviews to maintain high-throughput delivery.

Develop an in-depth understanding of the Geotab IoT devices (such as telematics devices, extendibility products, asset trackers, Video products) firmware and how various modules work.

Advocate for modular, reusable, hardware independent software/firmware development practices and adhere to test driven development principles.

Identify key areas of architecture improvement and contribute to the team roadmap.

Take ownership of technical initiatives, projects and products, and contribute to their implementation and output.

Contributes to defining strategic direction, planning the roadmap, and synthesizing feedback to ensure team success.

Break down large engineering efforts into smaller pieces that can be completed in parallel in collaboration with the team.

Develop and review scalable, high quality, secure embedded software using Geotab's development standards for RTOS, Embedded Linux or baremetal.

Proficient in large scale feature functionality analysis, device health analysis, using various tools like GBQ/SQL and Geotab datasets.

Work with the team lead/manager to set the direction of the team and guide key stakeholders on execution choices and trade-offs. Advise managers with insights and recommendations to improve the team.

Define unit test, integration test, simulated or hardware test frameworks to facilitate test driven development.

Provide and Maintain design documents and other documentation to ensure efficient maintenance and code reuse.

Perform quality assurance through peer review; ensuring test coverage, enforcing coding standards, identifying potential bugs and aligning with requirements.

Provide technical mentorship to other developers, take ownership of quality and deliverable of the work of developers in the team.