Team Lead Commerce

Toronto - Canada

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 15-10-2025

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Department Focus:

The Product Department at Deliverect is at the forefront of the digital ordering revolution dedicated to consistently delivering groundbreaking solutions to the global marketplace. Our team of passionate and innovative engineers designers and product managers architect tools that empower businesses to thrive in the evolving digital landscape streamlining digital ordering for delivery and on-premise services. We are committed to creating user-friendly dependable and scalable technology that simplifies operations and enhances customer experiences playing an integral role in the success of businesses our department innovation is not just a concept; its the driving force behind everything we do.

The Commerce team powers one of Deliverects growing verticalsour first-party Commerce APIs. This team is responsible for developing new APIs and services that are used by our customers to build ordering and management experiences utilised by millions of consumers daily.

Your Impact:

As the Team Lead for the Commerce API team you will be a hands-on technical leader responsible for shaping the core of Deliverects growing commerce vertical. Your deep technical expertise will ensure the delivery of secure performant and scalable APIs while your leadership and mentorship will be crucial in guiding the technical direction of the team and up-skilling developers directly accelerating our platforms growth and impact on millions of daily consumer transactions.

This is a full-time hybrid role with a flexible work schedule offering 3 days in our Toronto Canada office and 2 days from the comfort of your home.

What you will do:

Lead the Commerce API team in the Toronto office setting the technical vision and driving execution of the teams roadmap providing technical guidance and acting as the local leader in the Toronto office.
Write well-tested high-quality and secure code to build performant APIs that enable our Commerce platform (including Loyalty Pay and Basket APIs) and develop applications that allow our customers to manage their online ordering solutions.
Mentor and guide developers in their work up-skilling the team to solve complex problems and foster a culture of continuous learning and growth.
Architect solutions actively participate in choosing new technologies and frameworks proactively anticipate performance problems and think at scale to ensure the platform remains reliable.
Collaborate closely with Product Owners Customer Success and Technical Account Managers to deeply understand customer problems and design effective solutions communicating technical concepts to diverse stakeholders.
Own the teams development processes including planning and executing sprints leading code reviews and ensuring that unit and integration tests meet our coverage requirements.
Support platform stability by participating in the on-call rotation to ensure any incidents are addressed as soon as possible.

What you will bring:

Senior-level experience and demonstrable leadership within a software development context with a passion for remaining a hands-on coder.
8 or more years of experience using Python in a web context (e.g. Flask Eve) or equivalent work experience with a willingness to learn Python quickly if your background is in another language (e.g. Ruby).
Proven experience building secure and scalable Web/REST APIs and working with a variety of API standards.
Expertise in developer mentorship and up-skilling with the soft skills required to successfully lead teams in hybrid and multi-location environments.
Experience with development tools including Git the CLI and API clients like Postman Insomnia or Bruno.
Familiarity with SaaS products or experience working on a product with frequent releases within a rapidly scaling global company.
A strong sense of ownership and initiative readily identifying what needs to be done and proactively driving tasks to completion.

Nice to Have:
Good knowledge of databases especially NoSQL (ideally MongoDB).
Understanding of Docker or Kubernetes in a cloud environment.
Experience with deployment safety and testing principles.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process such as reviewing applications analyzing resumes or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed please contact us.

Department Focus:The Product Department at Deliverect is at the forefront of the digital ordering revolution dedicated to consistently delivering groundbreaking solutions to the global marketplace. Our team of passionate and innovative engineers designers and product managers architect tools that em...

Department Focus:

Your Impact:

This is a full-time hybrid role with a flexible work schedule offering 3 days in our Toronto Canada office and 2 days from the comfort of your home.

What you will do:

Lead the Commerce API team in the Toronto office setting the technical vision and driving execution of the teams roadmap providing technical guidance and acting as the local leader in the Toronto office.
Write well-tested high-quality and secure code to build performant APIs that enable our Commerce platform (including Loyalty Pay and Basket APIs) and develop applications that allow our customers to manage their online ordering solutions.
Mentor and guide developers in their work up-skilling the team to solve complex problems and foster a culture of continuous learning and growth.
Architect solutions actively participate in choosing new technologies and frameworks proactively anticipate performance problems and think at scale to ensure the platform remains reliable.
Collaborate closely with Product Owners Customer Success and Technical Account Managers to deeply understand customer problems and design effective solutions communicating technical concepts to diverse stakeholders.
Own the teams development processes including planning and executing sprints leading code reviews and ensuring that unit and integration tests meet our coverage requirements.
Support platform stability by participating in the on-call rotation to ensure any incidents are addressed as soon as possible.

What you will bring:

Senior-level experience and demonstrable leadership within a software development context with a passion for remaining a hands-on coder.
8 or more years of experience using Python in a web context (e.g. Flask Eve) or equivalent work experience with a willingness to learn Python quickly if your background is in another language (e.g. Ruby).
Proven experience building secure and scalable Web/REST APIs and working with a variety of API standards.
Expertise in developer mentorship and up-skilling with the soft skills required to successfully lead teams in hybrid and multi-location environments.
Experience with development tools including Git the CLI and API clients like Postman Insomnia or Bruno.
Familiarity with SaaS products or experience working on a product with frequent releases within a rapidly scaling global company.
A strong sense of ownership and initiative readily identifying what needs to be done and proactively driving tasks to completion.

Nice to Have:
Good knowledge of databases especially NoSQL (ideally MongoDB).
Understanding of Docker or Kubernetes in a cloud environment.
Experience with deployment safety and testing principles.

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Deliverect connects delivery apps and POS systems for restaurants to streamline order management. From online ordering to fulfillment solutions—We enable digital growth

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