9 days ago
Regina, CanadaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Guide teams in making, documenting, reviewing, and connecting architectural decisions across their domains.
- Contribute to the weekly architecture advisory forum by challenging proposals, clarifying tradeoffs, and improving ADR quality.
- Identify and coordinate cross-cutting concerns such as contracts, versioning, identity, permissions, tenancy, data isolation, observability, and migration sequencing.
- Run technical spikes and research to reduce architectural and roadmap risk, documenting findings and recommendations.
- Embed with teams and projects to build reference implementations, ship production code, diagnose difficult failures, and improve codebases.
- Address performance, data integrity, cross-service failures, distributed-system issues, and legacy migration challenges.
- Partner with engineering leaders, product, delivery teams, customers, and integration partners on sequencing, deployment architecture, security, integration, and performance.
- Help engineers develop stronger architectural judgment and improve the quality of technical decisions across the organization.
Requirements
- Substantial experience building and operating production software, including senior, staff, or principal-level responsibility.
- A 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 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 APIs, SDKs, plugins, or extension-platform contracts without breaking dependent parties.
- Familiarity with distributed data tradeoffs including replication, consistency, event ordering, versioning, and multi-region failure modes.
- 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, and Copilot, together with evaluation or reliability harnesses.
- Ability to work effectively across time zones and become productive quickly in unfamiliar systems.
- Preferred experience includes retail, point-of-sale, omnichannel commerce, telecom retail, extension platforms, payments, PCI, tokenization, terminal integrations, SOC 2, multi-tenant SaaS, or major product replatforming.
Benefits
- The role is primarily distributed across Canada, with teams in India and elsewhere, and requires effectiveness across time zones.
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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.