Python Development Team Lead

Location: Remote in Ontario (Home-based)
Hours: Monday - Friday, 37.5 hours per week
Salary: $100,000 to $115,000 per annum
Reporting To: Manager of Solution Engineering
New or Existing Role: Existing
The Role
The Development Team Lead is responsible for leading the design, development, delivery and support of digital transformation, automation and integration solutions across our enterprise platforms — including Salesforce and SAP — that improve business efficiency and enable strategic growth. Working in a hybrid Agile and Waterfall environment, you will collaborate with stakeholders across the business to translate requirements into scalable, high-quality technical solutions.
As a senior technical expert and experienced Python developer, you will provide technical leadership, mentor and develop other team members, promote engineering best practice, champion an AI-first mindset across the team's ways of working, and help drive continuous improvement across development processes, service delivery and solution architecture. This is a fully remote role with regular opportunities to meet colleagues in person at team and company events.
Key Responsibilities
o Lead the design, development and implementation of business automation, digital transformation and partner integration solutions
o Provide technical leadership and mentorship to developers, analyst programmers and trainees
o Support the architectural design of applications, services and integrations
o Design, build and support integrations between core business platforms, including Salesforce and SAP, and internal and partner systems
o Work with business stakeholders to gather requirements, define use cases and develop user stories
o Contribute to solution estimation, sprint planning, retrospectives and delivery roadmaps
o Establish and promote Python development standards, best practice and coding principles across the team
o Develop high-quality, scalable and maintainable Python-based applications and services
o Lead the adoption of AI-assisted software development practices, embedding AI coding assistants and agentic tooling into day-to-day engineering workflows
o Set standards for the safe, effective and accountable use of AI in development, including code review, testing and security expectations for AI-generated code
o Design and implement automated testing and business process monitoring solutions
o Support User Acceptance Testing activities and work closely with end users throughout delivery
o Ensure appropriate monitoring, performance optimization and operational support arrangements are in place
o Support live systems through Incident and Problem Management processes in line with ITIL principles
o Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver reliable and secure technology solutions
o Drive the adoption of modern development tools, frameworks and AI technologies where appropriate, evaluating new capabilities as they emerge
o Maintain technical documentation and contribute to knowledge sharing across the team
o Identify opportunities to improve operational efficiency through automation and process improvement
Skills & Requirements
Essential
Minimum 5 years' commercial software development experience
Advanced Python development skills, with Python as your primary programming language
Experience with Flask, Django or similar Python frameworks
Strong understanding of software design, architecture and development best practice
Experience delivering and supporting business-critical applications and services
Experience integrating enterprise business platforms such as Salesforce and SAP, using their APIs and data models
Knowledge of automated testing and quality assurance principles
Hands-on experience of AI-assisted software development, using tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude or Cursor as part of a professional workflow, with sound judgement on where AI adds value and where it does not
Experience working within Agile delivery environments
Proven ability to mentor, coach and develop technical team members
Strong stakeholder management, communication and collaboration skills
Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to work effectively in a remote environment
Desirable
Experience with Azure cloud technologies and serverless applications
Experience developing APIs, integrations and microservices
Experience building applications with LLM APIs, including prompt design, retrieval-augmented generation or agentic workflows
Knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka and modern deployment practices
Strong SQL, data integration and data transformation skills
Experience with Power BI, or the publishing/education technology sector
Kortext Benefits
21 days’ vacation (rising to 24 days after 5 years)
Extended healthcare benefits, healthcare spending account
Flexible, hybrid & remote working options to support productivity and wellbeing
Service awards to recognize and celebrate long-term commitment
Referral bonus for introducing great people to our team
Learning and development opportunities

Work arrangement
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