Senior Developer (Team Lead)

Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Burnaby, British Columbia, Univerus is a fast‑growing enterprise software company specializing in vertical market solutions. With over 300 employees, more than 20 acquisitions, and a global customer base exceeding 3,500 organizations, Univerus delivers mission‑critical technology across public and private sectors. Our flagship product, Unity ERP, powers operations in local government, utilities, construction, manufacturing, health and safety, education, and beyond.

Learn more at univerus.com.

Position Details

• Hours: 40 hours per week
• Salary Range: CAD $120K - $130K
• This is a new position with our Sports & Recreation BU.

Job Description

About the Role

We are hiring a Senior Developer (Team Lead) to drive meaningful product outcomes through hands‑on delivery and strong technical leadership. This role is for someone who can act independently, solve ambiguous problems end‑to‑end, and manage a team of developers to move multiple initiatives forward.

A core reality of this role is that we work across legacy products with multiple technologies and architectures. You must be comfortable operating in many different tech stacks, quickly learning unfamiliar languages and frameworks, and making pragmatic decisions in environments that are not greenfield. You will also play a leading role in building modern, efficient, AI‑driven processes that accelerate our software modernization effort, while improving quality, consistency, and delivery speed.

You will be central to executing our product vision, including our AI strategy and our Unity strategy (our internal centralization platform).

Key Responsibilities

• Technical Delivery and Problem Solving
• Own technical execution for key initiatives from discovery through delivery and support.
• Break down ambiguous problems into clear plans, milestones, and implementation steps.
• Make sound architectural decisions, balancing speed, maintainability, risk, and long‑term modernization needs.
• Contribute hands‑on, production‑grade code across a variety of languages and stacks, with the ability to ramp up quickly in unfamiliar systems.
• Identify and address root causes of reliability, performance, and maintainability issues in Legacy Product Modernization component replacement, improved testing, and documentation.
• Establish practical patterns for improving older codebases without disrupting customers or release timelines.
• Advocate for and implement improvements to code health, build/release pipelines, and observability to support modernization at scale.
• Drive technical decision‑making that reduces complexity and lowers the cost of change.
• AI‑Driven Engineering and Process Modernization
• Build and implement modern, efficient, AI‑driven processes that accelerate delivery and
  • AI‑assisted analysis of legacy codebases, dependency mapping, and risk identification
  • Automated documentation and knowledge capture for legacy systems
  • AI‑supported test generation, regression coverage expansion, and defect triage
  • Tooling that improves developer productivity (scaffolding, refactor assistance)
• Translate AI strategy into concrete workflows, tools, and features that improve engineering throughput and product outcomes.
• Ensure AI‑enabled processes are safe, reliable, and measurable (quality gates, human‑in‑the‑loop controls, monitoring).
• Team Leadership and Management
• Lead and manage a team of developers (prioritization, task breakdown, coaching, performance support, and day‑to‑day execution).
• Mentor developers through pairing, design reviews, code reviews, and feedback.
• Promote best practices across the team (testing, CI/CD, security, observability, documentation), tailored to the realities of legacy systems.
• Unity Strategy Execution (Internal Centralization Platform)
• Help define and build shared services, components, and integration patterns that unify products.
• Drive adoption of platform capabilities that reduce duplication and improve consistency.
• Improve developer experience with reusable tooling, shared libraries, and clear technical standards.
• Collaboration and Stakeholder Partnership
• Work closely with product leadership to translate vision into an executable roadmap.
• Communicate clearly with technical and non‑technical stakeholders: tradeoffs, risks, progress, and decisions.
• Support incident response and root‑cause analysis, and drive sustainable fixes.

What Success Looks Like (First 6–12 Months)

• The team consistently ships quality improvements and customer value on a predictable schedule.
• Legacy modernization is progressing through tangible outcomes (reduced defects, improved performance, better test coverage, simplified architecture).
• AI‑driven engineering workflows are adopted by the team and demonstrably improve speed, quality, or operational efficiency.
• Unity platform progress is concrete and visible through shared components/services adopted by multiple products.
• Developers are growing in capability and accountability under your leadership.

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software development experience, with demonstrated technical leadership and accountability for outcomes.
• Proven ability to operate independently, take ownership, and deliver results in ambiguous situations.
• Experience working in legacy codebases and successfully modernizing software through incremental, practical improvements.
• Strong general technology foundation and the flexibility to work across multiple languages, frameworks, and architectures.
• Experience leading or managing developers (direct management or strong team leadership with coaching responsibilities).
• Strong system design skills and modern engineering fundamentals (testing, reliability, performance, maintainability).
• Strong communication skills and comfort working cross‑functionally.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience implementing AI‑enabled engineering workflows (code understanding, test automation, documentation generation, triage automation, productivity tooling).
• Experience shipping AI‑enabled product features (LLM integrations, RAG, orchestration, evaluation).
• Experience building internal platforms or shared services across multiple products.
• Experience with cloud‑native systems, CI/CD pipelines, and observability practices.

Core Competencies

• Ownership and accountability
• Pragmatic decision‑making and strong judgment
• Ability to quickly learn and operate in unfamiliar systems
• Leadership presence and coaching mindset
• High standards for quality, security, and reliability
• Product‑minded engineering (value‑focused, user outcomes first)

What We Offer

• Health and Dental
• RRSP Matching
• Education Reimbursement Program

Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity & Inclusion:

Univerus is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to creating an inclusive and respectful workplace where everyone feels valued, supported, and empowered to contribute fully. We welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds, abilities, and experiences, including but not limited to Indigenous peoples, racialized persons, women, LGBTQ2S+ individuals, persons with disabilities, and veterans.

If you require accommodation at any stage of the recruitment process, please let us know. We are committed to working with you to ensure your needs are met.

Please note that we may use AI as part of our recruitment and hiring process. While we may incorporate select AI features to enhance process efficiency, we remain committed to human‑led decision making. We recognize that AI is not perfect, so all AI‑generated outputs are subject to human review to ensure accuracy and fairness. Our goal is to use technology to support, not replace, thoughtful human decision‑making in recruitment and hiring.