As the Principal Technical Lead, you are the technical leader for your product or products. You plan and oversee the development of solutions to allow our customers to achieve or exceed their business goals. In this technical role you are responsible and accountable for the implementation and quality of the products under your purview. You craft the architecture and design of your product to meet product goals in alignment with the practices and principals of our Senior Software Architects; you oversee the implementation to ensure architectural and code consistency; you ensure that best practices are being employed, all the while making certain that quality and security are primary considerations.

You coach, mentor, guide, and help nurture the development team (developers and testers) to realize its full potential and adopt our culture of technical excellence and continuous improvement.

As a part of the Replay team, you’ll be developing an application for replay operators to quickly create highlights, replays and more from live broadcast content. You will be guiding the development on Ross Video’s Mira platform and the suite of applications that compose our real-time Replay technology.

Who you report to: Director, Technical Product Management - MAM & Platforms

What we offer:

Ross offers competitive salaries, comprehensive health plans, and several perks to help you perform at your best. Some of these perks include flexible hours, generous paid time off, fitness/wellness allowance, an employee share ownership program, development support, and a ton of fun social activities and events! Best of all, you will be part of the Ross Video family, and we've got an energizing environment here.

What the job is all about:

• Driving continuous improvement within your team.
• Driving a culture of innovation and ownership of the product.
• Ensuring product meets corporate security standards.
• Ensuring technical implementation appropriately addresses domain.
• Ensuring stable solutions are running for customers.
• Ensuring team adherence to their Definition of Done.
• Ensuring solutions meet domain requirements as set out by Product Owner and Product Manager.
• Ensuring a clear technical vision for your product is designed and understood by the team.
• Ensuring interoperability between integrated products.
• Ensuring technical debt is minimized in the product.
• Ensuring solutions meet divisional technical standards.
• Ensuring knowledge redundancy amongst the team members.
• Ensuring the product adheres to corporate free and open-source software.
• Ensuring best practices are established and maintained.
• Ensuring modernization of technology.
• Ensuring comprehensive onboarding resources.
• Developing towards shared understanding and certainty for predicting releases.
• Building a culture of technical excellence within the team.
• Capturing Ross Intellectual Property (trade secrets, patents, and copyright) throughout the development cycle.
• Identifying, documenting, submitting, and defending audits for government tax incentives and other technical credits.

Who you are:

• Completed post-secondary education in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related field
• Extensive C/C++ experience
• Experience writing hardware device interfacing software
• Strong knowledge modern web technologies like React and TypeScript
• Experience in XP/Agile/Lean development environments
• Effective in working collaboratively to solve complex problems.
• Strong knowledge of good design practices.
• Strong detail-oriented mindset.
• Strong team-centered mindset.
• Strong coaching abilities.
• Strong knowledge of architectural design.
• Strong alignment with divisional and corporate values.
• Strong knowledge of relevant technology.
• Proactive and preventative mindset.
• Well versed in team domain.
• Takes accountability.
• Habitual learner.