Principal Software Engineer

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💎 Seniority level: Principal, 15+ years

📍 Location: Canada

💸 Salary: 203000.0 - 283000.0 CAD per year

🔍 Industry: Fintech and Retail

⏳ Experience: 15+ years

🪄 Skills: AWSBackend DevelopmentDockerLeadershipPostgreSQLSQLAgileCloud ComputingFrontend DevelopmentJavaKubernetesMongoDBPeople ManagementProduct ManagementReact.jsSalesforceSoftware ArchitectureSpring BootSpring MVCAlgorithmsData StructuresCI/CDRESTful APIsMentoringDevOpsMicroservicesTeam managementNodeJSSoftware Engineering

Requirements:

Strong experience leading engineering organizations, across multiple product lines, to deliver high quality software.
Track record of successfully leading engineering teams at both rapidly scaling startups and complex larger technology companies.
Expertise in synthesizing complex technical requirements, designs, trade-offs, and capabilities into clear decisions, and influence product direction.
Ability to communicate decisions and practices to the engineering organization effectively.
Extensive experience building and owning large-scale, highly available consumer product.
Track record of successfully mentoring and developing technical leaders.
Experience with Fintech and Retail industries for both B2C and B2B (merchants/affiliates) is a plus.
Experience with Salesforce SalesCloud or ServiceCloud platform is a plus.

Responsibilities:

Drive the long-term vision and architecture of Affirm’s post-purchase user experience
Champion innovative, scalable, and delightful solutions across the engineering organization
Promote a strong culture of innovation, drive evaluation, development and roll out of new technologies/frameworks. Actively research, brainstorm, prototype, and present ideas.
Establish architecture, technical design, and code review standards, coach team members to conduct effective design and code reviews. Ensure high programming standards, create best practices, and lead by example.
Provide technical guidance and influence in other areas of Engineering
Lead technical teams to develop end-to-end solutions for complex problems, interfacing with multiple services and platforms, and multiple external organizations.
Partner with Product Management, provide technical input to shape product direction and roadmap.
Lead the organization by hiring, coaching, managing, and supporting a team of senior engineering leaders in technical contributor roles.
Foster a culture of technical excellence, humility, constant improvement, and rigor to build a team that can confidently tackle complex challenges across multiple technical domains.
Provide leadership in development of a technical architecture and strategy for a complex and quickly growing business and serve a broader engineering team.

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