1 day ago
Toronto, CanadaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Help teams make, document, test, and improve architectural decisions in their own domains.
- Contribute to the weekly architecture advisory forum and connect relevant architectural decisions across repositories and teams.
- Identify and address cross-cutting concerns including contracts, versioning, identity, permissions, tenancy, data isolation, observability, and migration sequencing.
- Write production code, build reference implementations, prototype and research architectural directions, and improve adopted patterns.
- Diagnose performance, data-integrity, cross-service, and multi-team problems across the platform.
- Partner with engineering leaders, product, delivery teams, customers, and integration partners on sequencing, deployment architecture, security, integrations, and performance.
- Support incremental migration from legacy systems and help other engineers develop as architectural thinkers.
Requirements
- Substantial experience building and operating production software, including senior, staff, or principal-level responsibility.
- Five or six years of professional experience as stated in the posting.
- 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 code or tests.
- Experience evolving versioned public APIs, SDKs, plugin platforms, or other contracts without breaking dependent parties.
- Familiarity with distributed data, replication, consistency levels, event ordering, versioning, multi-region failure modes, and legacy-system migration.
- Strong technical writing skills for design documents, ADRs, and RFCs.
- Practical experience using AI-assisted engineering tools such as Claude Code, Cowork, and Copilot, along with evaluation and reliability harnesses.
- Ability to work effectively across time zones and distributed teams.
- Preferred experience includes retail, point-of-sale, omnichannel commerce, telecom retail, extension platforms, payments, PCI, tokenization, terminal integrations, SOC 2, multi-tenant SaaS, and major product end-of-life or 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.