Principal Software Developer

TL;DR

Principal Software Developer: Guiding the design and architecture of critical system components for the hirify.global Retail product with an accent on scalability and meeting customer needs. Focus on driving improvements in systems reliability and performance and developing a high-performance culture.

Location: For this role, you should be located in Canada, and able to work within EST/EDT hours. We offer a choice of fully remote, partially remote or fully office-based work environments (in cities with local offices).

Salary: $210,000 - $235,000 CAD

Company

hirify.global's one-stop commerce platform helps merchants innovate to simplify, scale, and provide exceptional customer experiences.

What you will do

• Ensure systems built to support new initiatives are well-designed and scalable.
• Analyze existing systems and infrastructure, identify opportunities to improve architecture and make systems more performant and robust.
• Identify key recurring patterns leading to incidents and create a plan to address those.
• Drive improvements in systems reliability and performance.
• Improve development practices, from design reviews to incident management.
• Mentor key members across service teams.

Requirements

• 15+ years of professional experience in software development.
• 5+ years of experience as a technical leader for multiple teams.
• 2+ years of experience in managing architecture across multiple teams with 35+ engineers.
• History of developing business-critical systems at scale to run on the cloud.
• Experience in more than one technology stack such as Go, PHP, Java, RoR, Python, etc.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to convey ideas concisely.

Nice to have

• Expertise in distributed systems and building multi-region systems for the cloud.
• Deep expertise in domain-driven software development.
• Ability to lead and guide a team of engineers while contributing alongside them.
• Retail or E-commerce domain experience.
• Experience with people management responsibilities.

Culture & Benefits

• Join a growing team and help us move to the next level.
• Amazing benefits & perks, including equity for all hirify.globalers.
• Constant development of both your skill-set and business acumen with limitless growth opportunities.
• Lots of autonomy, flexible work culture.
• Shaping the company by joining cultural & technical committees.
• Opportunity to learn, expand your skill set, forge wonderful relationships and make your mark within the diverse and inclusive hirify.global family.