Manager, Software Engineer; Technology Solutions

Manager, Software Engineer (Technology Solutions)
Full-time

Location:

Toronto, Canada

Hybrid work:  Employees work in a hybrid model balancing collaboration in our office and remote work.

Find a job that lets your imagination run wild! Wild Brain is made up of a team of innovators and creators who bring industry-leading kids’ content and brands to families globally. We inspire imagination, put creativity first and believe in the power of storytelling. We are constantly connecting the powers of our global team, making Wild Brain a collaborative, open minded and passionate environment to work in.

To work at Wild Brain means you get to create stories that lets imaginations run wild. Join our team today and make us part of your story!

About the Role  Reporting to the VP, Technology Solutions, you’ll be the creative engine behind how we build, evolve, and scale the internal products and services that fuel Wild Brain’s global entertainment engine. If you’re a builder, a mentor, a visionary, and someone who gets excited about solving problems – this is your playground.

Key Responsibilities

Owns the overall vision and approach for how we build our internally developed products and services.

Manages team of software engineers.

Accountable for and maintains the engineering standards, policies and principles.

Collaborates with product management and project teams to ensure greatest value achieved for the company through the engineering team’s work.

Works with management team to shape the strategy and overall direction of the technology products developed and maintained in house to support business objectives.

Leads software engineering team in the design and development of high-volume, high-performance, high-availability, VOD publishing, workflows, reporting, integrations, applications using modern frameworks and technologies.

Works with project teams on scoping and timeline estimates for software development initiatives.

Creates functional requirements and technical design documentation.

Understands and works with You Tube and other diverse 3rd party APIs to build and maintain delivery scheduling and reporting tools.

Leads the development of middleware to provide integration between first- and third-party systems, databases, and tools.

Works closely with platform engineering team to design robust, cost-efficient workloads to run in AWS and Wild Brain’s private cloud.

Owns the strategy and standards on how we write, test and deploy code.

Reviews, validates and correlates all technical documentation.

Retrospectively reviews the output of others to identify future improvements and advances in techniques.

What You'll Bring

Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or related field and/ or post graduate Internet related Certificate, or equivalent working experience.

Experienced developing high traffic applications with Python and PHP.

Experience with SQL, at least one DBMS, Database Design, No

SQL, performance tuning and migration/ETL.

Understanding of and comfortable working with continuous integration pipelines Git, tools Git Hub Actions, and automation Docker, Swarm.

Comfortable working in and developing for Linux environments (Ubuntu/Amazon Linux), and with bash/shell scripting.

Deep understanding of and ability to resolve issues arising from core internet technologies, concepts, and mechanisms (DNS, SSH, origin-pull CDNs, CORS, secure origin, etc).

Understanding of working in, and developing/integrating distributed applications and microservices for, cloud environments (AWS, private cloud).

Able to adhere to and keep up to date with current and evolving best practices relating to security and development methodologies.

Strong understanding of integrating with third party web services and systems via REST APIs.

Strong understanding of data structures, algorithms and design patterns.

Familiarity with Laravel Vapor and Laravel Nova a plus.

Familiarity with Big Query a plus.

What We Offer
Working at Wild Brain is more than a job — it’s the opportunity to join forces with extraordinary, insightful and imaginative people who will recognize your talents and encourage your professional growth and development in a work environment that…