Software Development Team Lead, Infrastructure Platform Team

About Spare

About This Role

Key Responsibilities

• Own infrastructure platform capabilities from design through launch and build tooling that makes engineering faster and safer.
• Architect scalable distributed systems on GCP and Kubernetes and improve reliability, resilience, security, and performance.
• Operate Redis and PostgreSQL, including tuning, scaling, upgrades, backups, and disaster recovery.
• Apply AI agents to incident detection, alert triage, and operational workflows.
• Manage the SRE on-call rotation, escalation paths, and blameless post-mortems.
• Drive FinOps practices, cloud spend visibility, right-sizing, and cost optimization.
• Mentor developers, collaborate cross-functionally, maintain high availability, and improve development processes.

Requirements

• At least 7 years of software development experience, including at least 2 years in people leadership.
• Expertise in backend technologies, distributed systems, AI-assisted development workflows, and systems operated at scale.
• Experience with GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, SRE on-call operations, incident response, and post-mortems.
• Experience with cloud cost optimization, FinOps, internal access control, and container security.
• Demonstrated software developer management, mentoring, technical leadership, problem-solving, debugging, and system design skills.
• Experience in transit, internal developer platforms, AIOps, CI/CD at scale, PostgreSQL, or Redis is considered a plus.

Why Join Us

• Work on challenging technical problems with real-world impact in transportation.
• Take ownership of core systems in a fast-paced, collaborative startup environment.
• The position offers competitive salary and equity options.

Compensation

• The stated compensation range is CAD 150,000 to CAD 260,000; the source does not specify a salary cadence.