Principal Software Engineer

Company Description

Wiser Solutions is a suite of in-store and eCommerce intelligence and execution tools. We're on a mission to enable brands, retailers, and retail channel partners to gather intelligence and automate actions to optimize pricing, marketing, and operations initiatives, both in-store and online. Our Commerce Execution Suite is available globally.  

Job Description

Location of Job: Remote- Canada 

We are looking for a hands-on Principal software engineer to join a team responsible for developing the microservices and web applications that power our data collection process and drive execution and innovation within our online retail/brand execution suite of products. Our team is introducing domain driven design, event sourcing, CQRS, and other patterns to better serve the scale, reliability and many other needs of our largest customers. If you have a passion for distributed system design, optimization, and data integration challenges, this may be the role for you.

Essential Functions:

• Ship the value that matters most – you are extremely product-driven: you solve the highest value problems incrementally and in the ways that work best for our business
• Execute, execute, execute – you deliver efficiently and effectively, you use metrics that drive success, you make high integrity commitments and follow through on them
• Raise the bar – you care deeply about your craft and high-quality code, consistently looking for ways to improve the codebase and holding other accountable to the same standard
• Collaborate and align – you are a great partner not just to the product team, but also to your peers for other product lines, architecture, data science, and infrastructure
• Communicate clearly – you ensure everyone from the executive team to the individual developers understands what needs to be done, what is being done, and when it will be done
• Bring new ideas to the table – you are a strategic contributor to our business

Technologies We Use:

• NodeJS/NestJS/TypeScript, GraphQL, Python, React/Redux, Java
• AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform
• MongoDB, Postgres, Elastic Search, Redis, Tableau
• RabbitMQ, NATS Messaging

Qualifications

• 12+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Experience with and understanding of product-driven engineering and agile delivery.
• Strong coding background in multiple languages.
• Proficient with writing both front-end and server-side code.
• Ability to guide and coach multiple engineering teams on software design principles and best practices.
• Good system design skills, with meaningful experience designing high scale distributed systems.
• Demonstrable technical background with understanding of modern tech stacks, object/data modeling, business process.
• Proficiency with domain driven design, MACH architecture, CQRS, event sourcing, or other modern patterns for building highly scalable systems.
• Software engineering experience as related to systems integrations, automation & deployment.
• Proven ability to learn quickly, make pragmatic decisions, and adapt to changing business needs.
• Track record of lifting and challenging teammates to higher levels of achievement.
• Strong experience working with both relational and unstructured data.
• Familiar with Linux, cloud computing (AWS, etc.) and containerization.
• Good testing habits and strong eye for quality.
• Outstanding organizational, communication, and relationship building skills conducive to driving consensus; able to work well in a cross-functional environment.
• Ownership – feel a sense of personal accountability/responsibility to drive execution from start to finish.
• Experience in leading & balancing priorities across multiple delivery teams working across multiple time zones (US, Europe and India)
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with a history of hands-on, detail orientation.

Additional Information

Other Duties - This role requires being part of a senior leadership on-call rotation. Senior leadership on-call duty corresponds to being available to respond to 2nd level escalations from the on call manager for additional support on resolving critical system issues:

· 6pm to 9am (the following day), Monday - Friday.

· A full day (24 hours) on weekends and public holidays

EEO STATEMENT - Wiser Solutions, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibits Discrimination, Harassment, and Retaliation of any kind. Wiser Solutions, Inc. is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and applicants, providing a work environment free of discrimination, harassment, and retaliation. All employment decisions at Wiser Solutions, Inc. are based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, family or parental status, disability, genetics, age, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other status protected by the state, federal, or local law. Wiser Solutions, Inc. will not tolerate discrimination, harassment, or retaliation based on any of these characteristics. 

Base pay is one part of our total compensation package. Pay is established on an individual basis after considering multiple factors such as relevant experience, education, and other qualifications. In addition, we take into account geographical differentials and make sure pay is equitable with our current staff. For this position, our hiring range for base annual pay is estimated to be CAD$180,000 to CAD$210,000, at the time of this posting. 

Performance-based discretionary bonuses and variable pay plans are available for some positions. 

If you require accommodation to complete any part of the application process or need an alternative manner to apply, please contact us at USTalentAcquisition@wiser.com or call (855) 469-4737. "