Job Specifications
Company Description
Location: Toronto, Canada (25 York St Suite 1201, Toronto, ON M5J 2V5)
Vacancy: This posting is for an existing open role at WildBrain’s Toronto office.
Hybrid work: Employees work in a hybrid model balancing collaboration in our office and remote work.
Find a job that lets your imagination run wild!
WildBrain is made up of a team of innovators and creators who bring industry-leading kids’ content and brands to families globally. We inspire imagination, put creativity first and believe in the power of storytelling. We are constantly connecting the powers of our global team, making WildBrain a collaborative, openminded and passionate environment to work in. To work at WildBrain means you get to create stories that lets imaginations run wild. Join our team today and make us part of your story!
About The Role
Reporting to the VP, Technology Solutions, you’ll be the creative engine behind how we build, evolve, and scale the internal products and services that fuel WildBrain’s global entertainment engine. If you’re a builder, a mentor, a visionary, and someone who gets excited about solving problems - this is your playground.
Job Description
Key Responsibilities;
Owns the overall vision and approach for how we build our internally developed products and services.
Manages team of software engineers.
Accountable for and maintains the engineering standards, policies and principles.
Collaborates with product management and project teams to ensure greatest value achieved for the company through the engineering team’s work
Works with management team to shape the strategy and overall direction of for the technology products developed and maintained in house to support business objectives.
Leads software engineering team in the design and development of high-volume, high-performance, high-availability, VOD publishing, workflows, reporting, integrations, applications using modern frameworks and technologies.
Works with project teams on scoping and timeline estimates for software development initiatives.
Creates functional requirements and technical design documentation.
Understands and works with YouTube and other diverse 3rd party APIs to build and maintain delivery scheduling and reporting tools.
Leads the development of middleware to provide integration between first- and third-party systems, databases, and tools
Works closely with platform engineering team to design robust, cost-efficient workloads to run in AWS and WildBrain’s private cloud
Owns the strategy and standards on how we write, test and deploy code.
Reviews, validates and correlates all technical documentation.
Retrospectively reviews the output of others to identify future improvements and advances in techniques.
Qualifications
What you'll bring;
Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or related field and / or post graduate Internet related Certificate, or equivalent working experience
Experience developing high traffic applications with Python and php
Experience with SQL, at least one DBMS, Database Design, NoSQL, performance tuning and migration/ETL
Understanding of and comfortable working with continuous integration pipelines [Git], tools [GitHub Actions], and automation [Docker, Swarm])
Understanding of front-end development, libraries, and frameworks (HTML5, CSS3, Javascript, jQuery UI, Bootstrap, Vue, React)
Comfortable working in and developing for Linux environments (Ubuntu/Amazon Linux), and with bash/shell scripting
Deep understanding of and ability to resolve issues arising from core internet technologies, concepts, and mechanisms (DNS, SSH, origin-pull CDNs, CORS, secure origin, etc)
Understanding of working in, and developing/integrating distributed applications and microservices for, cloud environments (AWS, private cloud)
Able to adhere to and keep up to date with current and evolving best practices relating to security and development methodologies
Strong understanding of integrating with third party web services and systems via REST APIs
Strong understanding of data structures, algorithms and design patterns
Familiarity with Laravel Vapor and Laravel Nova a plus
Familiarity with Big Query a plus
AWS Developer certification a plus
Additional Information
What We Offer
Working at WildBrain is more than a job — it’s the opportunity to join forces with extraordinary, insightful, and imaginative people who will recognize your talents and encourage your professional growth and development in a work environment that promotes creativity and individuality. We offer competitive benefits, and we invest in our people and their future.
Total Rewards
At WildBrain, we strive for equitable and consistent pay practices within a robust total rewards framework. Compensation may vary within the same role based on experience, performance, specialized expertise, and overall impact.
Compensation: $110,000 - $120,000 CAD (with bonus eligibility). Base salary is part of a comprehensive total rewards package that includes:
About the Company
At WildBrain we inspire imaginations through the wonder of storytelling. As a leader in 360deg franchise management, we are experts in content creation, audience engagement and global licensing, cultivating and growing love for our own and partner brands with kids and families around the world. Our mission is to create exceptional entertainment experiences that captivate and delight fans, both young and young at heart.
We are passionate producers of award-winning content, bringing creative excellence across all formats and ...
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