Lim Geomatics Hiring for Software Development Team Lead at Ottawa, ON Full Time

Lim Geomatics is an industry-leading GIS company that develops geospatial software and data to help forestry companies be more efficient with their office and field operations. By doing so, we empower data-driven sustainable forest management.

With our Forestry Geospatial Platform, forestry companies can uncover actionable insights for their timber harvesting supply chain and target, benchmark and optimize forest operations. Compared with other competitive solutions, our products are the only ones that integrate fully with the ArcGIS platform, thereby letting organizations leverage their existing investments in enterprise GIS technology.

At Lim Geomatics, we think outside the box and collaborate with our customers to provide solutions to their problems. We never settle for status quo; always delivering and delighting clients with innovative and practical outcomes. We celebrate diversity while leveraging the creativity and technical expertise of our team. At Lim Geomatics you will help dream up and realize innovative game-changing products and solutions for our global customers in the natural resources sector.

About you

You are either an experienced leader or eager to get into leadership! You are a Web Developer who is passionate and eager to tackle challenging problems in geospatial forestry management – from creating highly interactive web maps, to designing intuitive forestry management workflows, to unifying tracking/lidar/enterprise GIS data in one easy-to-use app.

As a Software Development Team Lead, you’ll be working with Product, Design, QA, while leading other developers to design, build, and maintain web applications in a clean, clear, and repeatable manner. You understand the importance of user-friendly UI/UX, writing quality code, mentoring and leading other developers, and iterating on ideas to meet product or project objectives. You are comfortable learning new languages and working on a variety of applications throughout a year. Customer satisfaction, team collaboration, and the importance of team reflection and constant improvement are your top priorities.

What you’ll do and how you’ll make an impact

As a key team member, you will help to scope, plan, and execute application development with a focus on web-based GIS and data management solutions.

Work with junior and intermediate team members to improve their knowledge and capabilities within the team.

Own and lead complex development projects or represent development in product or business decisions.

Own the tech stack and help guide architectural decisions for your product or projects.

Collaborate with stakeholders and team members to iterate on solutions and to continually deliver value to our clients.

Improve the application delivery process using automation and writing testable software.

Contribute to solutions for new and interesting problems, which often involve spatiotemporal components.

Participate in the product testing and peer review process.

Participate in the product discovery process along with the Product Manager and UI/UX Designer

Develop yourself personally and professionally by actively setting and achieving ambitious goals.

Impact Lim Geomatics’ growth by developing great applications and solutions.

What we’re looking for

Comfortable with Agile development practices, working in small teams running modern dev ops.

You have 7 or more years of web development experience. Angular, .NET, and Azure experience would be an asset.

Experience with ESRI technology, GIS, and mapping solutions would be an asset.

Experience with SQL and database technologies would be an asset

Able to manage a workload that may touch on a few different applications any given week.

You can independently research and implement solutions to complex problems.

Ability to lead and mentor a team of developers.

What we can offer you

Remote work opportunities

RRSP matching

Medical benefits

A great team environment! Many hires have said the reason they chose Lim Geomatics was because of the team culture.

To give a flavor of our company culture, during our previous quarterly meeting we had a virtual painting session!