Senior Manager, Software Engineering

About Us

Ritchie Bros. (NYSE and TSX: RBA) is a global asset management and disposition company, offering customers end-to-end solutions for buying and selling used heavy equipment, trucks and other assets in numerous industries including construction, transportation, agriculture, energy, oil and gas, mining, and forestry. Our mission is to create compelling business solutions for the world's builders to easily and confidently exchange equipment. Learn more about us at:

About The Team

Our Technology teams work collaboratively from different locations across the world on multiple eCommerce sites, mobile applications, and automated online auctions. We encourage and celebrate technical innovation and work with some of the industry’s leading technologies and tools.

Every day your work will make a difference in the way we run our business and the in the way customers interact with us.

Job Description

The Manager, Software Engineer supports our line of business operations by architecting, leading, and collaborating with developers to produce full stack solutions using modern frameworks and technologies, managing the practice in accordance with industry and Rouse standards of software engineering.

Responsibilities

1. Architect, design, develop, debug, and deploy scalable, efficient, performant, and reusable code to provide stable products to help grow and scale the business
2. Perform ad hoc analysis and troubleshooting to resolve issues with deployed systems
3. Maintain documentation and source control
4. Contribute code as part of a collaborative team, building critical client systems
5. Supervise product and test automation engineers in a cross-functional team, managing their priorities and ensuring their code adheres to industry and company best practices
6. Manage and define tasks for yourself and others in an agile environment
7. Architect and implement solutions in collaboration with engineering leadership
8. Own the problem and scope solutions that line up with business objectives
9. Provide rapid response to the needs of the team
10. Own delivery and regressions for the core components of the Rouse Sales product offering
11. Mentor and provide direction to team members
12. Perform other duties as assigned

1. Strong experience with JavaScript and JavaScript frameworks like Angular (preferred) or React
2. Experience with Python a plus
3. Experience with relational and document data stores such as PostgreSQL or Firestore a plus
4. At least 3-5 years of experience managing engineers in a Product Engineering environment, including full stack and automation engineers
5. Familiarity with Google Cloud Platform or other cloud providers
6. Demonstrated ability to architect, problem solve, test, and develop solutions independently
7. Typically Business Office Environment