Javascript Developer jobs in Cambridge, ON

Overview

Yangaroo is seeking a hands-on Technical Engineering Lead to strengthen engineering quality, architecture and delivery across Yangaroo Awards, Yangaroo DMDS and related applications. You will work closely with a small team of developers and QA professionals, serving as the technical connection point among product implementation, code quality, testing, infrastructure and release practices.

This is not a traditional director role and it is not a pure people-management position. It is a senior technical leadership role for someone who enjoys being close to the code, giving precise feedback, solving difficult production and delivery problems, and helping a team move faster without lowering standards.

A major part of the role is reviewing code submitted by team members or generated with AI-assisted development tools. The successful candidate will be able to detect subtle correctness, security, performance, data-integrity and maintainability issues; provide actionable feedback; and build repeatable quality systems.

What you will accomplish

• Maintain and improve the reliable, timely code-review system - protecting production quality while improving developer autonomy and throughput.
• Maintain a practical technical vision across the Yangaroo product lines.
• Improve CI/CD reliability and developer experience, including a staged migration to GitHub Actions.
• Continue cloud infrastructure migrations adding meaningful observability and clear operational ownership.
• Increase delivery velocity through improved engineering practices, automation and safe use of AI-assisted tools.
• Strengthen the working relationship among development, QA, product and infrastructure so that quality and release decisions are shared and evidence-based.

Core responsibilities

Code review and engineering standards

• Ensure software quality through a holistic approach, including rigorous PR reviews, elevated test quality, and improved coverage
• Review and challenge AI-generated code with particular attention to plausible-looking but semantically incorrect behavior, missing edge cases, unsafe assumptions and weak verification.
• Provide detailed, respectful and actionable feedback that explains risk and alternatives while helping developers build independent judgment.
• Establish risk-based review guidelines, examples, checklists, automated quality gates and reviewer rotation so the lead does not become the single bottleneck.
• Create or refine engineering standards for testing, dependency management, secure coding, logging, error handling, database changes and backward-compatible releases.

Architecture and implementation guidance

• Guide technical design for new products, systems and services.
• Maintain architectural coherence across legacy and modern components, choosing incremental refactoring, modular-monolith or service approaches based on business and operational evidence.
• Balance new functionality, production stability, technical debt and platform improvements against the capacity of a small team.

CI/CD, infrastructure and operational quality

• Increase deployment frequency by building release confidence and empowering teams with safe, reliable deployment processes.
• Own or coordinate improvements to build, test, packaging, deployment and rollback workflows across Yangaroo applications.
• Provide technical guidance for cloud migration, containerization, infrastructure as code and Git-based operations without introducing unnecessary platform complexity.
• Participate in production incident diagnosis and follow-through, converting lessons into tests, monitoring, runbooks and owned engineering improvements.

Technical leadership and team enablement

• Provide daily technical guidance and unblock developers and QA without taking over every difficult task.
• Partner with QA early in design and implementation to create risk-based test strategies, reliable test data and meaningful release evidence.
• Mentor developers through reviews, pairing, design discussions and post-incident learning; raise standards while increasing autonomy.

AI-assisted development and developer productivity

• Define practical guardrails for using AI-assisted development tools with proprietary code, sensitive data, tests and production changes.
• Evaluate and pilot tools or workflows that improve code understanding, testing, review quality, incident investigation, documentation or delivery speed.
• Measure whether new tools actually reduce lead time, review rework or escaped defects rather than treating usage volume as success.

Required qualifications

• Eight or more years of professional software-development experience, including sustained senior or technical-lead responsibility.
• Strong current C# and modern .NET experience, including web APIs, asynchronous code, data access, testing and production troubleshooting.
• Demonstrated ability to perform detailed code reviews and communicate feedback that improves both the code and the developer.
• Experience making architecture and modernization decisions for production systems, including legacy code and incremental migration.
• Hands-on CI/CD experience with Git-based workflows, automated testing, deployments, environments, secrets, rollback and release troubleshooting.
• Experience with at least one major cloud platform and practical knowledge of containers and infrastructure automation.
• Experience mentoring developers and coordinating across development, QA, product and infrastructure/operations.
• Strong judgment about security, reliability, data integrity, observability and operational support.
• Practical experience using or governing AI-assisted development tools, or clear evidence of the ability to adopt them critically and safely.
• Clear written and verbal communication, including the ability to document decisions and explain trade-offs.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience modernizing TeamCity, Octopus Deploy or comparable legacy CI/CD tooling.
• Experience with GitOps, infrastructure as code, Kubernetes, deployment-control systems or progressive delivery.
• Experience designing modular monoliths, microservices or event-driven systems and choosing appropriately among them.
• Experience with security/static-analysis tooling, dependency scanning, contract testing, end-to-end testing and observability.
• Experience supporting event-driven or high-volume systems, complex data workflows, media technology or submission/awards platforms.
• Some full-stack experience in JavaScript/TypeScript and modern web UI frameworks.

Pay: $130,000.00-$165,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Dental care
• Disability insurance
• Flexible schedule
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Stock options
• Vision care
• Work from home

Work Location: Remote