About Us Spare is a quick-growing, successful startup. We thrive on innovation, rapid execution, and delivering top-tier products that make a real impact in the transit industry. We are now seeking a Software Development Team Lead to join our Infrastructure Platform Team and help build and operate the cloud platform that every Spare product runs on.

As leader of the team responsible for Spare's core infrastructure platform, you will play a critical role in designing and building the reliable, secure, and cost-efficient foundation that powers our customers' on-demand transit systems. In this role, you'll split your time 50/50 between hands-on technical contribution and people leadership, working in an autonomous environment where you'll solve interesting technical challenges while growing and mentoring a high-performing team. Currently there are four software developers reporting to this role.

Given the nature of our business, this role requires someone who can balance technical expertise with strong product sensibilities, creating solutions that are both technically sound and accessible to end users. The role includes some travel as part of the job responsibilities – specifically, up to four customer site visits per year to gain firsthand insights, plus participation in our biannual software development hackathons in Vancouver. Own the design and development of core infrastructure platform capabilities from inception to launch Architect and implement high-performance, scalable distributed systems on GCP and Kubernetes Operate and maintain Spare's Redis and PostgreSQL databases — availability, performance tuning, scaling, upgrades, backups,



and disaster recovery Drive Spare toward AI SRE practices — embed AI agents into incident detection, alert triage, and operational workflows to make reliability work faster and more proactive Manage and continuously improve the SRE on-call rotation — healthy schedules, clear escalation paths, and blameless post-mortems that turn incidents into systemic improvements Use AI agentic tooling daily to accelerate your own and your team's engineering output, and coach the team to do the same Actively mentor software developers of all levels and uplift team capacity Collaborate cross-functionally with product managers, designers, and other software developers Ensure 99.99% uptime and maintain exceptional system performance Participate in team agile rituals and help improve software development processes A highly productive software developer with a proven track record of delivering high-quality code in complex environments Highly proficient with modern AI development tools and agentic workflows — you use AI to move faster and think better, not as a crutch A passionate mentor and technical leader who enjoys helping others grow 7+ years of software development experience, with at least 2+ years in a people leadership role ~ Demonstrated proficiency with AI-assisted and agentic development workflows (AI coding agents,



automation of engineering and operational tasks) ~ Experience running or managing an SRE on-call rotation, including incident response and post-mortem culture ~ Experience with infrastructure-as-code and configuration management tooling (Terraform) ~ Understanding of security best practices, especially around internal access control and container security ~ Demonstrated success in managing a team of software developers, with a focus on team and individual performance ~ Demonstrated ability to mentor other developers and provide technical leadership ~ It will be considered a plus (nice-to-have): Experience building internal developer platforms and golden-path tooling Experience applying AI/LLM tooling to SRE or infrastructure operations (AIOps, automated incident triage) Experience with CI/CD systems at scale, including test sharding and build performance Experience operating and maintaining PostgreSQL and Redis in production — performance tuning, indexing, replication, backup and restore Studies have shown that women and people of colour are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification in the job posting.

The Infrastructure Platform

Team's job is to build and run the foundation that Spare's on-demand transportation platform depends on — where circumstances change in real time and downtime is not an option. Work on challenging technical problems with real-world impact in the transportation industry Competitive salary and equity options If you are ready to tackle complex routing and optimization challenges and thrive in a high-performance environment, we'd love to hear from you!

📌 Software Development Team Lead, Infrastructure Platform Team (Vancouver)
🏢 Spare
📍 Vancouver