Software Developer Team Lead

Citylitics delivers predictive intelligence on local utility & public infrastructure markets.

What is Infrastructure? It is the roadways you rely on to safely get to Grandma's house, it's the potable water that comes out of your kitchen tap that you wash your family's food with and it's the energy that heats our homes and powers our digital lifestyles.

Every year, trillions of dollars are spent on all areas of infrastructure to maintain our quality life and move our economy forward. However, our infrastructure is no longer equipped to meet the needs of the future. We hear about infrastructure failures, whether bridge collapses, power blackouts, or water main breaks, every day in the news. Climate change and extreme weather events are disrupting the basic infrastructure we took for granted for years.

Citylitics is solving the hardest data problems in infrastructure while building the sales intelligence platform that enables a faster, more transparent, and more efficient infrastructure marketplace. We turn millions of unstructured documents into high value intelligence feeds and datasets that are available on an intuitive user experience. Our goal is to enable solution providers to connect with cities with relevant infrastructure needs in a faster and more digital way than historic market channels. As more companies adopt our platform, cities & utilities will be able to access solutions that deliver on the promise of moving towards a more resilient, sustainable, and equitable infrastructure future.
Who Are We Looking For?

We are seeking a hands-on Software Developer Team Lead who thrives on building exceptional full-stack web applications while empowering others to excel. You've been an architect of scaling systems and a people person enabling high-performing teams. With deep expertise in frontend or platform development, data modeling, and API design,, you’ll work with the engineering manager to drive our platform forward.

What Will You Accomplish?

• Operational Excellence
• Balance time effectively, dedicating approximately 50% to overseeing collaborative shipping of full-stack implementation and 50%  personal contribution to the codebase
• Lead sprint execution & sprint reporting. Mentor and develop engineering talent to report continuously on their current progress and delivery quality code within timelines, fostering a culture of continuous learning and technical demonstrations
• Clear understanding of product vision, and translate it into clearly documented executable technical roadmaps
• Technical Excellence
• Establish and maintain rigorous standards that emphasize clean, well-tested, and thoroughly documented solutions
• Lead by example in architecture discussions, data modeling, query optimization, building out test coverage, and data validation/analysis
• Champion database design and denormalization strategies that power scalable applications
• Maintainable Tech
• Demonstrate success in monitoring/observability and technical debt management for a growing codebase
• Drive performance optimization and infrastructure as code initiatives
• Deliver architectural decisions that position our platform for long-term scalability and maintainability
• Other duties as assigned

• 5+ years expertise in web applications, distributed systems, and data platforms with sizable user base
• Deep proficiency with Django, React(Query), TypeScript and SQL
• Experienced in database design/denormalization, and cloud architectures (GCP)
• Strong habit of technical documentation, diagramming, and cost/performance/permissions analysis
• Hands-on experience with API telemetry/monitoring, microservices (k8s/Helm), and CI/CD
• Demonstrate effective communication skills, unblocking and creating momentum for team members, stakeholders and customers
• Exceptional complexity estimation, problem-solving, and analytical thinking capabilities
• Organized, process-oriented and autonomous around achieving leadership goals, and progress the SDLC with a good sense of business tradeoffs
• Proficiency with modern development tools including AI-enhanced workflows, VSCode, JIRA, Git, and Unix
• Bachelor's degree or relevant certification in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Bonus

• Track record of technical demonstrations that drive new technology adoption within existing stacks
• Led or played key roles in designing and shipping significant projects or systems
• Exemplifies cutting-edge development practices with active integration of Agentic AI workflows
• Demonstrates continuous learning through hands-on coding, personal projects, or open-source contributions

• This is a rare opportunity to influence positive change within one of the biggest societal challenges of our generation: sustainable public infrastructure

• You get to support a disruptive solution with a compelling value proposition into an industry that is eager to hear from you and in a market with no direct competition.
• We live at the cross section of infrastructure, scaleup and data science/AI. There is no other team like us in Toronto.
• There is no corporate bureaucracy here. You will accomplish more here in a few months than what you would in a few years at a large, entrenched technology company.
• We believe that Data and AI will play an outsized role in our future, so we equip every team member with access to Generative AI tools and our full Data Universe to enhance their productivity and encourage innovation through experimentation.
• We are proud to offer every CityZen an internal mentorship program, in-role professional growth, skill-based development & learning, and internal promotion opportunities.
• We work hard, we play together, we win as a team! We are on a mission to solve infrastructure while savoring the moment and celebrating the little details along the way.