Responsibilities
- Own and evolve application and platform architecture, including service boundaries, integration patterns, data modeling, API standards, and multi-region cloud deployments.
- Lead architecture reviews, influence roadmaps, and drive cross-team initiatives involving modernization, refactoring, performance tuning, data migrations, and distributed systems.
- Evaluate and introduce technologies, establish engineering standards for design, testing, secure coding, CI/CD, and production readiness, and create reusable reference implementations.
- Help teams resolve complex and high-severity production issues and improve reliability, operability, and technical guardrails.
- Support FedRAMP and government-cloud certification readiness by shaping technical controls and implementation plans with Security and Compliance.
- Mentor engineers and technical leads and build organizational learning programs including architecture guilds, technical talks, design workshops, and post-incident reviews.
Requirements
- At least 10 years of overall engineering experience, including at least five years as a Staff or Principal Engineer at B2B SaaS startups.
- Strong working knowledge of Java/J2EE, Oracle, PostgreSQL, AWS, GCP, Azure, React, and Vue.js.
- Experience building and operating modern B2B SaaS applications with strong engineering fundamentals.
- Proven ability to set architectural direction across multiple teams and make durable technical decisions involving scalability, reliability, performance, data consistency, and operational maturity.
- Experience with global cloud systems and production operations at scale, including multi-region deployments, disaster recovery/business continuity, and observability.
- Experience supporting FedRAMP or government-cloud certification and/or comparable regulated environments.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to author design documentation and influence engineering, product, and leadership stakeholders.
- Track record of mentoring and coaching engineers across teams and raising engineering quality.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field is required; a master's degree is preferred.
- Desirable experience includes shared services such as identity/authentication and platform APIs, Kubernetes, service meshes, developer productivity tooling, large-scale Java/J2EE modernization, and commercial real estate software.
Benefits
- Internal meetups, conferences, workshops, Udemy access, language courses, and company-paid certifications.
- Opportunities for large-scale, globally impactful projects and internal mobility across diverse domains.
- Healthcare, basic life insurance, and short- and long-term disability insurance according to company benefit plans.
- Full-time position based in Canada.
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About Ciklum
Ciklum is a global Experience Engineering firm that stands at the forefront of innovation, blending next-generation product engineering, exceptional customer experiences, and cutting-edge AI. The business revolutionizes the way people live by developing technologies that reimagine, reshape, and redefine the future. For over 20 years, Ciklum has been a trusted partner to global enterprises and digital disruptors, spearheading the creation of digital solutions that tackle complex corporate challenges while propelling businesses toward accelerated growth and success. Its global team of over 4,000 highly skilled engineers, experience design specialists and consultants joins forces to engineer technology that paves the way for the future of your business. Ciklum builds tailored digital solutions that leverage emerging technologies for such clients as Just Eat, Metro Markets, EFG International, Zurich Insurance and others. For more information about us visit www.ciklum.com