Wiser is hiring a
Principal Software Engineer

Summary

The job is for a Principal Software Engineer at Wiser Solutions, a company that provides in-store and eCommerce intelligence tools. The role involves developing microservices and web applications for their data collection process and driving innovation within their online retail/brand execution suite of products. The position is remote in Canada and requires 12+ years of professional software engineering experience.

Requirements

• 12+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Experience with and understanding of product-driven engineering and agile delivery
• Strong coding background in multiple languages
• Proficient with writing both front-end and server-side code
• Ability to guide and coach multiple engineering teams on software design principles and best practices
• Good system design skills, with meaningful experience designing high scale distributed systems
• Demonstrable technical background with understanding of modern tech stacks, object/data modeling, business process
• Proficiency with domain driven design, MACH architecture, CQRS, event sourcing, or other modern patterns for building highly scalable systems
• Software engineering experience as related to systems integrations, automation & deployment
• Proven ability to learn quickly, make pragmatic decisions, and adapt to changing business needs
• Track record of lifting and challenging teammates to higher levels of achievement
• Strong experience working with both relational and unstructured data
• Familiar with Linux, cloud computing (AWS, etc.) and containerization
• Good testing habits and strong eye for quality
• Outstanding organizational, communication, and relationship building skills conducive to driving consensus; able to work well in a cross-functional environment
• Experience in leading & balancing priorities across multiple delivery teams working across multiple time zones (US, Europe and India)
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with a history of hands-on, detail orientation

Responsibilities

• Ship the value that matters. most – you are extremely product-driven: you solve the highest value problems incrementally and in the ways that work best for our business
• Execute, execute, execute. – you deliver efficiently and effectively, you use metrics that drive success, you make high integrity commitments and follow through on them
• Raise the bar. – you care deeply about your craft and high-quality code, consistently looking for ways to improve the codebase and holding other accountable to the same standard
• Collaborate and align. – you are a great partner not just to the product team, but also to your peers for other product lines, architecture, data science, and infrastructure
• Communicate clearly. – you ensure everyone from the executive team to the individual developers understands what needs to be done, what is being done, and when it will be done
• Bring new ideas to the table. – you are a strategic contributor to our business

Benefits

• Base pay is one part of our total compensation package. Pay is established on an individual basis after considering multiple factors such as relevant experience, education, and other qualifications. In addition, we take into account geographical differentials and make sure pay is equitable with our current staff. For this position, our hiring range for base annual pay is estimated to be CAD$180,000 to CAD$210,000
• Performance-based discretionary bonuses and variable pay plans are available for some positions