Location: Toronto, Ontario
Our client is more than a global e-commerce leader — they’re changing the way the world shops and sells. Their platform empowers millions of buyers and sellers in more than 190 markets around the world. They’re committed to pushing boundaries and leaving their mark as they reinvent the future of e-commerce for enthusiasts.
Their customers are their compass, authenticity thrives, bold ideas are welcome, and everyone can bring their unique selves to work — every day. They're in this together, sustaining the future of their customers, the company, and the planet.
Join a team of passionate thinkers, innovators, and dreamers — and help them connect people and build communities to create economic opportunity for all.
Are you looking for a company that inspires passion, courage and imagination, where you can be part of the team shaping the future of global commerce? If you’re interested in joining a purpose-driven community that is dedicated to creating an ambitious and inclusive workplace, our client is a company you can be proud to be a part of.
Their Buyer Experience engineering team is looking for an outstanding Software Architect to work with as they redefine the face of the company. You’ll be working with a world-class team of engineers, designers, product managers, and analysts to create great products that make a difference on one of the world’s most trafficked and loved websites.
Primary Job Responsibilities Architecture & Engineering Excellence:
Influence and contribute to the organizational technology strategy, ensuring its adoption and successful execution within your projects/domains.
Act as a change agent with a strong sense of ownership and innovative mindset, proactively identify architectural opportunities, advocate and bring forth better solutions, prototype quickly, demo and collect feedback often, document well to get buy-in.
Lead architecture & design with a systematic approach, balancing the holistic design and scalability of software architecture with short-term feature development.
Play a pivotal role in continuously improving engineering practices, bringing a significant long-term impact on team velocity including speed and quality of delivery.
Produce best-in-class documentation, such as Architecture Decision Records (ADRs), facilitate design reviews, and maintain architectural wikis to foster self-learning and efficient onboarding.
Collaborate closely with fellow architects across various teams and domains within the organization to align and synergize architectural efforts.
Execution:
Responsible for driving major projects and features across teams from the design phase to coding and testing.
Work closely with product managers, and engineering leaders and collaborate with partner teams to execute product/technology roadmap.
Grow Others:
Coach and mentor others via either formal mentorship structure or day-to-day activities such as pair programming, code/design review, hackathon.
Play a critical role in hiring, acting as a bar-raiser to elevate team talent.
Job Requirements Deep experience building large-scale, high throughput distributed web platforms/APIs serving millions of users.
Exceptional development skills in Java / Scala, and Javascript, solid knowledge in GraphQL.
Tracking records of identifying high-value, high-complexity technical problems, driving effective solutions that had a significant positive impact.
Successfully forged alignment with senior stakeholders on technical direction for ambiguous problem areas.
Developed and drove the adoption of technical patterns that significantly improved engineering practices across the organization.
Strong sense of ownership, embrace differences and disagreement to get things done and move forward.
Deeply care about growing others, great at mentoring and coaching.
Bachelor’s degree and 15+ years (or) an MS in Computer Science and 12+ years of software design and relevant experience.
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