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Winnipeg, CanadaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Help teams make, test, document, and improve architectural decisions and ADRs.
- Contribute to the weekly architecture advisory forum and connect related decisions across repositories and teams.
- Identify and guide cross-cutting concerns including contracts, versioning, identity, permissions, tenancy, data isolation, observability, and migration sequencing.
- Write and ship production code, build reference implementations, prototype and research architectural directions, and resolve complex diagnostic issues.
- Work across backend services, event pipelines, web and mobile clients, data systems, cloud infrastructure, and delivery pipelines.
- Partner with engineering leaders, product teams, delivery teams, customers, and integration partners on deployment architecture, security, integration, performance, and operational constraints.
- Support incremental migration from legacy systems and help other engineers develop architectural judgment.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of professional experience, with substantial experience building and running production software at senior, staff, or principal responsibility levels.
- Track record of owning work end to end from design through shipped and operated production code.
- Depth in multiple layers of the stack, including backend services, data modeling and persistence, web or mobile client architecture, cloud infrastructure, and delivery pipelines.
- Experience with event-driven or event-sourced systems, explicit domain modeling, and architecture enforced through tests or tooling.
- Experience evolving versioned public APIs, SDKs, plugin platforms, or extension platforms without breaking dependent users.
- Familiarity with distributed data, replication, consistency levels, event ordering, versioning, multi-region systems, and failure analysis.
- Experience with incremental migration, coexistence, and deprecation in large long-lived systems with active customers.
- Strong technical writing skills, including design documents, ADRs, and RFCs.
- Practical experience using AI-assisted engineering tools such as Claude Code, Cowork, or Copilot, along with dependable evaluation workflows.
- Ability to work effectively across time zones and distributed teams.
- Preferred experience includes retail, point-of-sale, omnichannel commerce, telecom retail, payments and compliance, extension platforms, multi-tenant SaaS, or major product replatforming.
Benefits
- Starting salary of $130,000 CAD, commensurate with experience.
- Comprehensive benefits for employees and their families.
- Flexible hybrid work environment with remote and in-office work for employees in an office city.
- Generous vacation and trusted sick leave programs.
- RRSP/401K/PF and Share Ownership plans with a match program.
- Maternity, adoption, and paternity leave salary top-ups, plus ten New Baby Days.
- Annual Cultural Day off and up to six days of paid time off for volunteering or personal learning.
- Seven-week sabbatical after every seven years of employment.
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About iQmetrix
iQmetrix builds SaaS retail management and point-of-sale software for telecom retailers, connecting POS, activations, inventory, drop ship, and omnichannel commerce. Its Interconnected Commerce platform links carriers, retailers, and OEMs to transact, fulfill, and operate across online and in-store channels. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Vancouver, the privately held company focuses on the wireless/telecom retail market and supports large-scale transaction volumes for North American brands.