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CBC/Radio-Canada Supervisory Lead Mobile Developer (Digital Strategy & Products) (English Services) in Toronto, Ontario
Position Title:
Supervisory Lead Mobile Developer (Digital Strategy & Products) (English Services)
Status of Employment:
Contractee Long-Term (Fixed Term)
Position Language Requirement:
English
Language Skills:
English (Reading - C - Advanced), English (Speaking - C - Advanced), English (Writing - C - Advanced)
Work at CBC/Radio-Canada
At CBC/Radio-Canada, we create content that informs, entertains and connects Canadians on multiple platforms. Our successes and accomplishments are driven by embodying and upholding values, which include creativity, integrity, inclusiveness and relevance.
Do you think you have the ability and drive to keep up with this exciting, ever-changing industry? Whether it be in front of the camera, on air, online or behind the scenes, you would be joining a team that thrives on making connections and telling stories that are important to Canadians.
Unposting Date:
2025-03-20 11:59 PM
Working at CBC:
CBC has a passion for Canadian storytelling. Our goal is to engage with individuals and communities through our digital platforms. Your work will affect how millions of Canadians use our products. It will enable them to connect with each other, and the unique voices of our country.
Why is this role important?
The Android and iOS mobile News applications are two of CBC's flagship platforms, bringing our content to our Canadian audience wherever they are. Millions of Canadians use these applications every day. The impact of this role spans the country coast to coast. We are looking for an 18 month contract Supervisory Lead Developer to help us continue and transform this work. Our new initiative will answer how we will combine native and cross-platform development within a new architecture. In partnership with the Mobile Technical Architect you will lead the establishment of our new development practices around this cross-team work. As a Supervisory Lead Developer, you will lead the implementation work of your team and be directly responsible for the Senior Developers that work with you.
How you will make an impact:
Being part of establishing our new mobile cross-platform development and delivery practices.
Leading the development of the core architecture of News mobile applications.
Collaborating with the Solution Architect and Technical Architect to understand and validate technical requirements and systems designs.
Working with Developers and Quality Engineers to ensure that technical requirements and system designs are followed during development.
Establishing development best practices to ensure code is scalable, maintainable and testable.
Establishing development processes such as pull request (PR) review policies, release management and managing technical debt.
Collaborating with Agile Team Leads, Product Managers, Product Owners, Solutions Architects, Technical Architects and other Lead Developers who work on our mobile News apps and other partner teams.
Assessing feasibility of work and supporting the breakdown of that work - clarifying, prioritizing and estimating tickets and coordinating these processes with the Agile Team Lead.
Supporting the delivery of sprint work by helping the team identify and remove any impediments, escalating issues when needed.
Encouraging knowledge sharing, collaboration and support among the Developers.
Supervising a team of 4-5 Developers who report directly to you.
Supporting your reports with regular one-on-one conversations, mentoring and coaching.
Identifying opportunities for learning and growth for your reports, providing technical feedback and professional guidance.
Ensuring the team has the capacity to deliver work on time through managing time cards and absence requests (e.g. vacation time), and supporting hiring.
Qualifications:
2+ years of experience in a leadership role providing technical leadership for a team of Developers
5+ years of experience in software development in a senior role.
1+ years of experience using Kotlin Multiplatform
1+ of experience in iOS development in Swift and/or Android development in Kotlin.
2+ years of experience building user interfaces with a cross-platform framework or technology.
Evidenced work building and integrating cross-platform modules and components into both Android and iOS native codebases.
Experience with setting coding standards and practices - development best practices for coding, quality management, continuous integration and release management
Experience using REST APIs and Graph Query Language (GQL/GraphQL) to communicate with backend services.
Strong understanding of common architectural patterns (e.g. MVVM, Clean Architecture, etc) and design patterns (e,g, Chain of Responsibility, etc.) and the ability to assess their value in different contexts.
Demonstrated understanding of modularizing code.
Run-time, code quality, maintainability and scalability are key factors when you consider solutions.
You are familiar with Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) and how it improves the release process and have experience managing related platforms.
Ability to adjust your communication style to suit different audiences (e.g. technical vs non-technical).
You can support your technical choices with clear and proven evidence.
You proactively seek out new approaches to development and identify opportunities to improve the codebases you work with.
Experience with the full software development lifecycle
Agile Principles are a core part of how you work
Experience with mentoring and coaching developers and identifying potential areas of strength and growth for them
Ability to encourage and drive innovation and collaboration.
You take responsibility for the team's work and success, not just your individual goals.
You are an advocate for diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility in your workplace and understand the advantage this brings to your work.
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 (http://cbc.radio-canada.ca/en/working-with-us/jobs/diversity-inclusion-cbc-rc) 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 e-mail 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 (http://cbc.radio-canada.ca/en/vision/governance/corporate-policies/values-ethics/conduct) . 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 (http://cbc.radio-canada.ca/en/vision/governance/corporate-policies/human-resources/conflicts) . 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
At CBC/Radio-Canada (http://cbc.radio-canada.ca/en) , we create content that informs, entertains and connects Canadians on multiple platforms. Our successes and accomplishments are driven by embodying and upholding values, which include creativity, integrity, inclusiveness and relevance.