Software Development Lead at Semios (Vancouver, BC, Canada)

Who you are:

As the Applications People Lead at Semios you will support and work with a team that oversees the applications that Semios provides growers to make data-driven decisions that enable efficient and environmentally sustainable practices. As the People Lead you will manage, coach, and lead a skilled and growing team. You will apply modern principles, methodologies and tools to advance business initiatives and capabilities. You possess a combination of leadership, technical, and team-building skills. You are collaborative, a true team player that recognizes that leadership is about enabling those around you to do great things.

What you will do:

• Collaborate with senior leaders, product management, project management and other team leads to shape the applications team strategy and priorities


• Manage, direct, grow and coach a skilled Applications team by




• Mentoring team members in problem-solving approaches, tools and best practices.


• Providing regular performance feedback to enable employee development and goal achievement


• Ensuring team delivery and focus is aligned with broader company strategy, goals and initiatives


• Leading recruitment activities to hire the best talent


• Demonstrating and reinforcing Semios values


• Implement and maintain best practices around documentation and development practices




• Participate in Applications Architecture design


• Partner with stakeholders to define and measure KPIs for the team


• Facilitate communication between teams and team members


• Ensure a high level of operational excellence for technology development stacks and tools

We want you to succeed, so you will need:

• 2+ years of people management experience in an Engineering team


• 5+ years of experience in software development


• 2+ years of professional experience with fullstack JavaScript


• Experience designing backend APIs (REST, GraphQL) OR building modern frontends (React)


• Excellent interpersonal skills


• Strong presentation, written and verbal communication skills


• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.


• A passion for staying up to date with best practices and technology trends. 


• A willingness to consistently learn and grow.


• High level of comfort with ambiguity and autonomy, you enjoy figuring out what needs to be done and getting it done

Nice to have:

• Experience with agriculture or other similar biological data (i.e. enable analytics and products that leverage time series, geospatial, weather, yield, spray records, and other agricultural data).


• Experience building mobile applications (Android, React Native)


• Experience developing cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP)


• Expertise with designing relational database schema (PostgreSQL)


• Experience with CI/CD


• Experience with Devops

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