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Responsibilities
- Guide teams in making, testing, and documenting architectural decisions through ADRs and the weekly architecture advisory forum.
- Connect and maintain architectural decisions across repositories and identify cross-cutting concerns including contracts, versioning, identity, permissions, tenancy, observability, and migration sequencing.
- Embed with teams to write production code, build reference implementations, prototype and research architectural directions, and resolve difficult performance, data-integrity, and cross-service problems.
- Partner with engineering leadership, product, delivery teams, customers, and integration partners on sequencing, deployment architecture, security, integration design, performance, scale, hardware, and regional constraints.
- Improve design reviews and help engineers develop stronger architectural judgment and technical writing.
Requirements
- Substantial experience building and operating production software, including senior, staff, or principal-level responsibility.
- Five or six years of professional experience and a record of owning work 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 designs, domain modeling, distributed data, replication, consistency, event ordering, versioning, and multi-region systems.
- Experience evolving versioned APIs, SDKs, plugins, or extension platforms without breaking independent consumers.
- 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.
- Preferred experience includes retail or point-of-sale, telecom retail, payments and compliance, extension platforms, multi-tenant SaaS, or major product replatforming and end-of-life migrations.
- Ability to work effectively across time zones and become productive quickly in unfamiliar systems.
Benefits
- Starting salary of $130,000 CAD, commensurate with experience.
- Comprehensive benefits for employees and their families, flexible hybrid work, generous vacation, and a trusted sick-leave program.
- RRSP/401K/PF and Share Ownership plans with a matching program.
- Maternity, adoption, and paternity leave salary top-ups plus ten New Baby Days for parents.
- Annual Cultural Day, up to six paid days for volunteering or personal learning, and a seven-week sabbatical after every seven years of employment.
- Hybrid work environment with remote and in-office work for employees in an office city.
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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.