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About Univerus
Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Burnaby, British Columbia, Univerus is a fast-growing enterprise software company specializing in vertical market solutions. With over 300 employees, more than 20 acquisitions, and a global customer base exceeding 3,500 organizations, Univerus delivers mission-critical technology across public and private sectors. Our flagship product, Unity ERP, powers operations in local government, utilities, construction, manufacturing, health and safety, education, and beyond.
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ROLE TITLE: Senior Developer (Team Lead)
Position Details
Hours: 40 hours per week
Salary Range: CAD $120K - $130K
Location: Remote - Canada
This is a new position with our Sports & Recreation BU.
About The Role
We are hiring a Senior Developer (Team Lead) to drive meaningful product outcomes through
hands-on delivery and strong technical leadership. This role is for someone who can act
independently, solve ambiguous problems end-to-end, and manage a team of developers to move
multiple initiatives forward.
A core reality of this role is that we work across legacy products with multiple technologies and
architectures. You must be comfortable operating in many different tech stacks, quickly learning
unfamiliar languages and frameworks, and making pragmatic decisions in environments that are
not greenfield. You will also play a leading role in building modern, efficient, AI-driven
processes that accelerate our software modernization effort, while improving quality,
consistency, and delivery speed.
You will be central to executing our product vision, including our AI strategy and our Unity
strategy (our internal centralization platform).
Key Responsibilities
Technical Delivery and Problem Solving
Own technical execution for key initiatives from discovery through delivery and support.
Break down ambiguous problems into clear plans, milestones, and implementation steps.
Make sound architectural decisions, balancing speed, maintainability, risk, and long-term
modernization needs.
Contribute hands-on, production-grade code across a variety of languages and stacks,
with the ability to ramp up quickly in unfamiliar systems.
Identify and address root causes of reliability, performance, and maintainability issues in
legacy environments.
Legacy Product Modernization
Lead modernization efforts across legacy products, including incremental refactors,
component replacement, improved testing, and documentation.
Establish practical patterns for improving older codebases without disrupting customers
or release timelines.
Advocate for and implement improvements to code health, build/release pipelines, and
observability to support modernization at scale.
Drive technical decision-making that reduces complexity and lowers the cost of change
over time.
AI-Driven Engineering and Process Modernization
Build and implement modern, efficient, AI-driven processes that accelerate delivery and
Modernization. Examples Include
AI-assisted analysis of legacy codebases, dependency mapping, and risk
identification
Automated documentation and knowledge capture for legacy systems
AI-supported test generation, regression coverage expansion, and defect triage
Tooling that improves developer productivity (scaffolding, refactor assistance,
review support)
Translate AI strategy into concrete workflows, tools, and features that improve
engineering throughput and product outcomes.
Ensure AI-enabled processes are safe, reliable, and measurable (quality gates, human-in
the-loop controls, monitoring).
Team Leadership and Management
Lead and manage a team of developers (prioritization, task breakdown, coaching,
performance support, and day-to-day execution).
Establish a predictable delivery rhythm, including planning, estimation, review cycles,
and accountability to outcomes.
Mentor developers through pairing, design reviews, code reviews, and feedback.
Promote best practices across the team (testing, CI/CD, security, observability,
documentation), tailored to the realities of legacy systems.
Unity Strategy Execution (Internal Centralization Platform)
Help define and build shared services, components, and integration patterns that unify
products.
Drive adoption of platform capabilities that reduce duplication and improve consistency
across a diverse product portfolio.
Improve developer experience with reusable tooling, shared libraries, and clear technical
standards.
Collaboration and Stakeholder Partnership
Work closely with product leadership to translate vision into an executable roadmap.
Communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders: tradeoffs, risks,
progress, and decisions.
Support incident response and root-cause analysis, and drive sustainable fixes.
What Success Looks Like (First 6–12 Months)
The team consistently ships quality improvements and customer value on a predictable
cadence.
Legacy modernization is progressing t
About the Company
Univerus brings best-of-breed software solutions together in a single user interface for an intuitive experience that dramatically improves operational consistency and efficiency.
From local government and utilities to recruitment, education, manufacturing, sport, and recreation, our platform is tailored to solve the real-world challenges of today’s most critical industries.
Headquartered in Vancouver and backed by a global team across Canada, the US, Australia, and New Zealand, Univerus proudly serves clients around the...
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