Technical Lead

Company Description

Assent is the leading solution for supply chain sustainability tailored for the world’s top-tier, sustainability-driven manufacturers. Hidden risks riddle supply chains, many of which weren't built with sustainability in mind. That's where we step in. With insights from experts, Assent is the tool manufacturers trust for comprehensive sustainability.

We are proud to announce that Assent has crossed the US$100M ARR milestone, granting us Centaur Status. This accomplishment, reached just 8 years following our Series A, makes us the first and only Certified B Corporation in North America's SaaS sustainability industry to celebrate this milestone.

Our journey from $5 million to US$100M ARR in just eight years has been marked by significant growth and achievements. With our $350 million US funding led by Vista Equity Partners, we're poised for even greater expansion and are on the lookout for outstanding team members to join our mission.

Hybrid Work Model

At Assent, we proudly embrace a remote-first work model, valuing the flexibility and autonomy it provides our team. We also acknowledge the intangible benefits of occasional in-person workdays. For team members situated within 50 kms/31 miles of our five global offices in Ottawa, Eldoret, Penang, Columbus, and Amsterdam, you can expect to come into the office at least one day a week. Similarly, those near our co-working spaces in Nairobi and Toronto are encouraged to work onsite once a month.

Job Description

At Assent, Continuous Discovery is the heart of our teams and how we work. Technical Leads, Product Managers, and Product Designers (together called a product trio) collaborate to identify solutions to opportunities. As part of the trio, Technical Leads assess the feasibility of a solution. They provide options back to their peers to drive product and business outcomes. As part of their team they evangelize solutions and guide the team to delivery. They are player-coaches within the team combining development with collaboration and mentoring. If you want to have an impact on what customer’s see … this is the role for you!

Key Requirements and Responsibilities:

• Own the technical quality of the solutions delivered by your team: from discovery to delivery to adoption.

• Collaborate with colleagues from product management, user experience, quality assurance to understand the problems of our customer;

• Design and develop high quality, scalable solutions, in conjunction with the architects and other technical leads, that are optimized for our business;

• Contribute to improving the overall quality of our solution by participating in design and code reviews from their own team and others; 

• Mentor other team members helping them to improve their technical skills and overcome day-to-day problems;

• Stay current with emerging technologies and methods and drive their adoption where they can accelerate achieving the team’s objectives;

• Be familiar with corporate security policies and follow the guidance set out by processes and procedures of Assent

This is not an exhaustive list of duties. Responsibilities may be altered and/or added from time to time to meet business needs

Qualifications

We strongly value your talent, energy and passion. It will also be valuable to Assent if you have the following qualifications,

• 7 years of experience in the software development field;

• You have proven experience with AWS services (or other cloud solutions)

• You are an expert in our software stack (C#/.NET, MS SQL Server, Angular).

• You are an expert in designing large-scale distributed systems. You can tell what patterns or techniques might apply to a situation, and can tell why they may be useful (or why not!).

• You understand how to build, deploy, and observe software at scale.

• You are an influencer who can work well with others and focuses on the merits of ideas.

• You are a strong team player whose vision of the team extends beyond their reporting structure.

• You are a critical thinker who can leverage powerful questions to help others see what they’re not looking for.

• You are a constant learner and every day brings a new opportunity for you and your team to discover something new.

• You are open to feedback, coachable and always striving to improve yourself.

Reasonable Accommodations Statement: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform the aforementioned duties and responsibilities satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions.

Additional Information

Life at Assent

Wellness: We believe that you and your family’s well being is important. As a result, we offer vacation time that increases with tenure, comprehensive benefits packages (details vary by country), life leave days and more.

Financial Benefits: It’s not all about the money – well, it’s a little about the money. We understand that financial health is important and we offer a competitive base salary, a corporate bonus program, retirement savings options and more.

Life at Assent: There is purpose beyond your work. We provide our team members with flexible work options, volunteer days and opportunities to get involved in corporate giving initiatives.

Lifelong Learning: At Assent, curiosity is not only valued but encouraged. You will receive professional development days that are available to you the day you start.

At Assent, we are committed to growing and sustaining an environment where our team members feel included, valued, and heard. Our diversity and equal opportunity practices are guided and championed by our Diversity and Inclusion Working Group and our Employee Resource Groups (ERGs).

Our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion includes recruiting and retaining team members from diverse backgrounds and experiences, and fostering a culture of belonging where all team members are included, treated with dignity and respect, promoted on their merits, and placed in positions to contribute to business success.

If you require assistance or accommodation throughout any part of the interview and selection process, please contact [email protected] and we will be happy to help.