3 months ago
Toronto, CanadaStaff+
Base Salary
$150k - $180k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and evolve analytics, reporting, and AI-driven data intelligence capabilities for large-scale workloads.
- Lead the architecture and delivery of complex distributed systems, microservices, and critical platform initiatives.
- Own services end to end, including design, implementation, deployment, monitoring, performance optimization, reliability, and operational excellence.
- Drive architectural decisions and technical direction across teams while establishing engineering standards and best practices.
- Mentor engineers through coaching, code reviews, knowledge sharing, and constructive feedback.
- Collaborate with product managers, designers, and engineering teams to define requirements and align platform direction.
- Develop validation frameworks, automated testing strategies, and data quality controls for software and data products.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science or a related field.
- 9+ years of professional software development experience leading the design and delivery of complex software systems.
- Deep experience designing, building, and operating distributed systems and microservice architectures at scale.
- Proven ability to drive architecture decisions, influence technical direction, and lead engineering initiatives across teams.
- Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Docker, cloud-native technologies, and public cloud platforms, preferably Google Cloud Platform.
- Expert-level proficiency in Python, Go, or similar modern programming languages.
- Experience with validation frameworks, automated testing strategies, and data quality controls.
- Experience working in Agile development environments and collaborating cross-functionally.
- Strong understanding of performance, reliability, scalability, observability, security, and operational excellence.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills for explaining complex technical concepts to diverse audiences.
- Experience with AI-assisted development tools, knowledge-driven engineering practices, and modern software delivery methodologies is preferred.
Benefits
- Starting salary of $150,000–$180,000.
- Health benefits and life insurance coverage beginning on the first day.
- Parental leave top-up and employer-matched RRSP contributions.
- Flexible vacation, employee and family assistance services, and professional development through LinkedIn Learning and mentorship.
- Employee resource groups and regular events supporting connection, belonging, and well-being.
- Hybrid flexibility with time in the Liberty Village, Toronto office.
- Permanent full-time employee benefits and an annual compensation review process.
Tech Stack
Categories
BackendData Engineering
About Achievers
Achievers builds a SaaS platform for employee recognition and rewards, offering monetary and non-monetary recognition, a global rewards marketplace, and integrations with systems like Workday, Microsoft, Slack, and SAP. Founded in 2002 and headquartered in Toronto, it is owned by Blackhawk Network. The platform serves millions of employees across 160+ countries, with customers that include General Motors and Workday.