As a trusted partner to the world’s leading loyalty programs, Points builds, powers, and grows new ways for members to get and use their favorite loyalty currency. 

More than 1 billion loyalty program members touch our products through brands like Hilton, Air Canada, Lyft, British Airways, United Airlines, Air France-KLM, Chase Bank, Etihad Airways, and many more. Our team of 250+ people across 5 global offices works together to build and launch new solutions, solve complex challenges for our partners, and create a one-of-a-kind company culture.

This position is remote across Canada, but reports into our Toronto office. 

Points is looking for a Tech Lead to join our Software Engineering team for a full-time permanent position in our downtown Toronto office. We are a cross-functional, Agile team with backend, frontend and full-stack engineers focused on our LCR products — internal services and interfaces that drive the business logic behind our many whitelabel storefronts, providing them with a suite of loyalty solutions.

Join an incredibly motivated and collaborative team working across a breadth of technologies with end-to-end visibility and ownership of our tech stack. We take pride in our culture of working, sharing and celebrating together and create a supportive environment where everyone can be their true self at work.

Reporting to the Director, Software Engineering, you will join a multidisciplinary team where you will:

• Provide technical leadership and guidance to a team of front-end and back-end developers.
• Take responsibility for your team’s technical health: architecture, best practices, reliability, security, etc.
• Improve developer and user experience through thoughtful design, rigorous testing, and clear documentation.
• Collaborate with scrum masters, product owners, designers, and other stakeholders.
• You’ll play an important role in helping us to deliver high-quality products to our partners and customers.

• Excellent communication skills
• Proven experience fostering a collaborative team environment
• Experience leading software projects or development teams
• Excellent software fundamentals, preferably with an emphasis in web development
• Experience scoping, architecting and implementing back-end and front-end applications

Technologies we use and teach:

• Python, JavaScript (React)
• Docker, GitLab
• CouchDB, Postgres

Points is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to providing an accessible recruitment process. Upon request we will provide accommodation for applicants with disabilities.

We welcome applications from all qualified individuals and are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of gender identity or expression, race, ethnic origin, creed, place of origin, age, sex, marital status, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, and any other category protected by law. Upon request we will provide accommodation for applicants with disabilities.

All your information will be kept confidential.

The health and safety of Points’ employees, guests and business partners is a very high priority. Our view that maximizing COVID-19 vaccination rates among employees is one very important strategy to lessen the hazard of COVID-19 in our physical workspace. As such, all new Pointsters are required to be fully vaccinated in accordance with their regional guidelines.

Points is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to providing an accessible recruitment process.

We welcome applications from all qualified individuals and are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of gender identity or expression, race, ethnic origin, creed, place of origin, age, sex, marital status, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, and any other category protected by law. Upon request we will provide accommodation for applicants with disabilities.

All your information will be kept confidential.