Software Engineering Expert
AutoTrader.ca2 months ago
Toronto, CanadaSenior
Responsibilities
- Own the architecture of domain services, integrations, APIs, data flows, shared services, environments, and deployment paths.
- Prototype and implement critical paths, review production code, debug cross-system failures, pair with engineers, and remove technical blockers.
- Translate product goals into technical requirements, specifications, acceptance criteria, dependency maps, and decision records.
- Drive staging readiness, environment automation, release workflows, rollback planning, production support ownership, and post-launch hypercare.
- Establish engineering standards for design, implementation, testing, observability, documentation, rollout, and support readiness.
- Improve reliability through SLOs, monitoring, alert quality, runbooks, incident learning, data-quality checks, and post-release measurement.
- Coach engineers and technical leads through architecture, coding, debugging, delivery, operations, communication, and decision-making.
- Help teams safely adopt AI-assisted engineering across coding, reviews, testing, documentation, requirements analysis, and decision support.
- Communicate technical trade-offs to Product, Design, QA, Data, Sales, Operations, leadership, and customers.
- Align application and portfolio architecture with customer value, commercial outcomes, and the Consumer Conversion operating model.
Requirements
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, including significant hands-on technical leadership across complex, customer-facing products.
- Demonstrated success owning platform architecture and delivery across multiple teams, systems, or product domains.
- Strong language-agnostic full-stack background and experience building scalable web-based applications and integrations.
- Practical experience with distributed systems, APIs, data flows, cloud infrastructure, platform capabilities, modern software architecture patterns, and AWS.
- Experience improving requirements quality, technical design, release readiness, observability, and operational outcomes through direct engineering involvement.
- Experience leading through ambiguity, recovery, staffing transitions, or competing priorities while remaining close to the work.
- Proven use of AI-assisted engineering tools with sound judgment around verification, security, privacy, and quality.
- Commitment to coaching, inclusive leadership, feedback, and the growth of engineers and technical leaders.
- Exceptional communication skills and the ability to adapt across engineers, product partners, executives, and customers.
- Data-informed decision-making balanced with empathy, pragmatism, and ownership.
Benefits
- Toronto, ON, Canada location.
- Gym discounts and an Employee and Family Assistance program.
- Virtual wellness events.
- Conferences and training budget plus regular internal training programs.
- Financial planning with 3% matching Pension.
- Competitive salary and annual bonus structure.
- Benefits available from Day 1.
Tech Stack
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About AutoTrader.ca
AutoTrader.ca operates Canada’s largest online automotive marketplace, where consumers buy and sell new and used vehicles, and dealerships and OEMs advertise inventory. The company monetizes through listings, advertising, and digital retailing and marketing software (including AutoSync). Founded in 1975 and headquartered in Etobicoke, Ontario, its marketplace reports over 25 million monthly visits, and it is privately held under the TRADER corporate brand.