Job Specifications
Who We Are:
Geotab ® is a global leader in IoT and connected transportation and certified “Great Place to Work™.” We are a company of diverse and talented individuals who work together to help businesses grow and succeed, and increase the safety and sustainability of our communities.
Geotab is advancing security, connecting commercial vehicles to the internet and providing web-based analytics to help customers better manage their fleets. Geotab’s open platform and Geotab Marketplace ®, offering hundreds of third-party solution options, allows both small and large businesses to automate operations by integrating vehicle data with their other data assets. Processing billions of data points a day, Geotab leverages data analytics and machine learning to improve productivity, optimize fleets through the reduction of fuel consumption, enhance driver safety and achieve strong compliance to regulatory changes.
Our team is growing and we’re looking for people who follow their passion, think differently and want to make an impact. Ours is a fast paced, ever changing environment. Geotabbers accept that challenge and are willing to take on new tasks and activities - ones that may not always be described in the initial job description. Join us for a fulfilling career with opportunities to innovate, great benefits, and our fun and inclusive work culture. Reach your full potential with Geotab. To see what it’s like to be a Geotabber, check out our blog and follow us @InsideGeotab on Instagram. Join our talent network to learn more about job opportunities and company news.
Who You Are:
You are a skilled Lead Software Developer with extensive software design and implementation skills. You are skilled in the use of current programming languages and tools and generally act as a team resource on custom development initiatives. You find reward in building robust software that can function 24/7 with no down time. If you love technology, are passionate about creating scaleable software, SDKs and APIs - we would love to hear from you.
What You'll Do:
The Lead Software Developer will play a major technical leadership role on the Geotab Video product vertical. The Software Developer for our Video team will build creative and dynamically-scalable solutions that can handle event data and video streams from thousands of devices simultaneously. In addition, they will create tools that analyze video data to uncover meaningful patterns and operational insights. This position will involve designing and developing high quality, in-depth software using modern frameworks and following industry best practices. An understanding of industry standard architectural skills and experience building large scalable platforms is a must for this position. As the Lead Software Dev, you'll support and mentor your teams as they solve tricky problems over our large data set, also working closely with our data science team. You will play a pivotal role in shaping the team's technical direction, mentoring colleagues, and ensuring that only robust, thoroughly-tested code is delivered to our vast customer base. With ~150K cameras deployed, helping our customers improve the efficiency of their operations can have a significant impact on global safety and operational excellence.
How You'll Make An Impact:
Independently and proactively identify key areas of architecture improvement, including preparing proposals on achieving the improvements.
Lead, oversee and plan the development of scalable code, prototypes, minimum viable products and PoCs.
Take ownership of complex/ long-term projects and contribute to their implementation, including defining scope, requirements, communicating project progress, challenges and solutions, while ensuring timely delivery.
Collaborate with other development teams on design and implementation of features spanning multiple products.
Conduct comprehensive testing and code reviews to ensure that code quality is maximized and best-practices are followed.
Provide expert project-leadership and guidance as a SME, to the department and larger organization.
Contributes to defining strategic direction, planning the roadmap, and synthesizing feedback to ensure team success.
Serve as a cross functional resource across team/department and products to contribute to solving technical issues in development.
Builds relationships and serve as a technical point of contact partnering with stakeholders including customers, product managers, cross-functional partners, and external partners and other internal team members.
Mentor other developers on the team and work with the team leads to set the direction of the team and guide key stakeholders on execution choices and trade-offs, and advise manager with insights and recommendations to improve the team.
Appropriately document system design and architecture such that it is easy to understand, maintain and extend.
Support Geotab global strategic initiatives.
Participate in a 24x7 on-call rotating s
About the Company
Geotab is a global leader in connected vehicle and asset solutions, empowering fleet efficiency and management. We leverage advanced data analytics and AI to transform fleet performance, safety, and sustainability, reducing cost and driving efficiency. Backed by top data scientists and engineers, we serve over 55,000 global customers, processing 80 billion data points daily from more than 4.7 million vehicle subscriptions. Geotab is trusted by Fortune 500 organizations, mid-sized fleets, and the largest public sector fleets ...
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