Hybrid Team Lead, Software Development – Demand Response

at Spare

• Job title: Team Lead, Software Development – Demand Response
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: CA$150,000 - CA$220,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Vancouver, Canada

About the role

• Team Lead guiding 5 developers in building software for Demand Response in transit. Responsible for technical vision and delivery with a focus on AI-assisted development.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a high-performing team
• Build deep, individualized relationships with every person on your team — understand how they think, what motivates them, and how they can grow
• Be a dedicated coach and mentor who gets energy from leveling people up — help your developers become meaningfully stronger engineers, thinkers, and communicators over time
• Create an environment where people do the best work of their careers — high trust, high standards, direct feedback
• Foster a team culture of ownership, urgency, and pride in the work
• Own technical vision and delivery
• Be the technical authority for the Demand Response product — you're the expert on the codebase and the go-to person for hard technical questions
• Make sound architectural decisions and ensure the team strikes the right balance between reliability, tech debt, and feature work
• Contribute directly as a senior+ IC — you still write code, review code, and deliver customer value
• Take accountability for your team's delivery and communicate proactively with stakeholders about progress, tradeoffs, and risks
• Push the frontier on AI-assisted development
• Be hungry to experiment with new models, tools, and agentic development workflows
• Evangelize and raise the bar for AI adoption across your team
• Help your team leverage AI to dramatically increase what they can deliver
• Partner across the business
• Collaborate closely with your PM and designer as peers — together you hold the product vision and ensure coherence across everything the team ships
• Have enough product and business sense to step in when needed — you can talk to customers, give a compelling demo, and make prioritization calls grounded in customer value
• Be an expert on your team's product and customers — know the key accounts, their setups, their challenges

Requirements

• 5+ years of software development experience, with demonstrated senior-level technical ability
• 2+ years leading an engineering team, with a genuine track record of developing people — not just managing work
• A passion for growing and leveling up your team. You get energy from helping people reach the next level. You invest deeply in each person and take pride in their growth
• Hungry to push the frontier of AI-assisted development. You don't need to be an expert today, but you need to be deeply curious and actively experimenting
• Cross-functional range. You're comfortable in product conversations, can engage with design and business context, and think about customer problems and value delivered, not just code and features.
• A high bar and a growth mindset. You set ambitious standards for yourself and your team, and you're always looking for ways to improve
• Ownership mentality. You take responsibility for outcomes, communicate proactively, and drive forward without waiting for direction.

Benefits

• Equity offered as a variable dependent on base salary.