JOIN THE TEAM

Alert Labs is looking for an experienced developer who is passionate about design, leadership, and creating great user experiences. We are currently hiring two team leads within the software platform group. While both teams are full-stack, one will focus more on our Flutter App while the other will focus more on our back-end cloud services.

Did you know?

By analyzing water data gathered by our easy-to-use sensor networks, in 2020, Alert Labs saved 1 Billion gallons of wasted water, and stopped 17.9 Million pounds of CO2e from entering the atmosphere.

What kinds of activities will you do as a Software Team Lead?:

As a team lead on either team, you’ll provide leadership and software design skills to take our client application and cloud platform to the next level. You’ll work with our user experience lead and other stakeholders to design new components, pages, and features. You’ll implement these designs in collaboration with other team members.

What’s our tech stack?

Alert Labs is adopting Flutter for our next generation of client software and user interfaces across the Web, Android, and iOS. We use Node.js/Typescript on the back-end and our current dashboards use React for the front-end. By joining the team now you'll help reimagine core features as well as add exciting new ones.

Responsibilities:

• You take full ownership for successfully executing challenging projects:
  • Collaborate with product management and other stakeholders to develop detailed requirements
  • Develop written designs, including software architecture, and work plans
  • Get the project done, hands-on and with other team members
• You provide team leadership including:
  • Guidance and leadership to other developers
  • You participate in higher level program and architecture planning
  • You help remove roadblocks for other team members
• You analyze problems and synthesize solutions applying both technical skill and consideration of the business case. You can push the boundaries and develop novel solutions to new challenges.

Must Haves:

• Undergraduate degree in computer science/engineering and 6+ years of professional experience, or equivalent.
• At least 1 year of experience leading a software team
• Strong computer science fundamentals including data structures and algorithms, databases, and/or distributed systems.
• Communicate effectively with people in different roles. You are open to learning and to mentoring.

Nice to Haves:

• A flair for UI design and an understanding of how users think about the system.
• Experience with one or more of Dart, Flutter, Typescript, Node.js, React

In this role, you'll be working directly with:

• Dan Urquhart is responsible for our cloud platform. Dan is a Professional Engineer who has been leading software teams for 15 years and holds several patents. In his spare time, Dan has written several articles for new developers and leaders.
• Curtis VanderGriendt leads Product and UX. Curtis has grown UX into a collaborative and integrated process with development teams at multiple companies. He’s interested in helping teams deliver significant value to the business through scalable design systems, reusable components, and involving developers early and often in the design process.
• Davidson, Jason, Riley, Blake, Ali and Greg - meet the team.

While we have a great office downtown Kitchener that we look forward to re-opening, full-time remote work within Canada is also an option for this role.

Alert Labs is looking for an experienced developer who is passionate about solving real-world problems to reduce the environmental impact of infrastructure throughout North America.

Alert Labs has a fleet of IoT devices monitoring everything from water flow rates to the pressure levels in air-conditioners. The data science and analytics team is responsible for turning this raw data into actionable insights for our customers and internal stakeholders.

What kinds of activities will you do as a Senior Back End Software Developer?:

As a senior software developer your core responsibility will be the architecture and execution of back end software projects. You will participate in research and development projects with the data science team and use your engineering background to support other team members to align with best practices in software development.

What’s our tech stack?

Alert Labs’ Data Science and Analytics team uses Python as our primary development language. Most analytics are conducted in a stateful streaming architecture that uses Kafka for telemetry and event streams, with MongoDB for state persistence. The Alert Labs platform uses Typescript on Node.js for other services, including data ingest.

Responsibilities:

• You take full ownership for successfully executing challenging projects:
  • Collaborate with team members, product management, and other stakeholders to develop requirements
  • Identify gaps, generate and test hypotheses
  • Develop written designs, including software architecture and work plans
  • Get the project done, hands-on and with other team members
• Provide guidance to other developers
• Participate in higher level program and architecture planning
• Analyze problems and synthesize solutions applying both technical skill and consideration of the business case. You can push the boundaries and develop novel solutions to new challenges.

Must Haves:

• Undergraduate degree in computer science/engineering and 4+ years of professional experience, or equivalent.
• Strong computer science fundamentals including data structures and algorithms, databases, and/or distributed systems.
• Communicate effectively with people in different roles. You are open to learning and to mentoring.
• You have at least a basic understanding of Python and are an ace in your language of choice.

Nice to Haves:

• Successfully lead projects or a small team of other developers
• Comfortable in Python, Typescript and in a lower-level language such as C++
• Experience developing and validating software that is both cutting-edge and production-ready
• An interest in statistical analysis, machine learning, and related topics
• Experience with cloud platforms like AWS or Azure and services such as Elastic Beanstalk or MSK