Staff Senior Back End Software Engineer - T27

Description
At ("Retail Client"), we're more than a global ecommerce leader - we're changing the way the world shops and sells. Our platform empowers millions of buyers and sellers in more than 190 markets around the world. We're committed to pushing boundaries and leaving our mark as we reinvent the future of ecommerce for enthusiasts.
Our customers are our compass, authenticity thrives, bold ideas are welcome, and everyone can bring their unique selves to work - every day. We're in this together, sustaining the future of our customers, our company, and our planet. Join a team of passionate thinkers, innovators, and dreamers - and help us connect people and build communities to create economic opportunity for all.
What you'll do and learn:
- Independently lead complex technical initiatives within and beyond your team.
- Drive technical direction and roadmap, leads across domain teams and guides others towards the right technical decisions.
- Authors ADRs (Architecture Decision Records) that serves as blueprint or a proposed solution for a given technical problem and influences overall tech strategy
- Responsible for one or more large functional areas possessing in-depth knowledge and expertise.
- Demonstrate strong systems approach, go beyond immediate needs, proactively addressing performance, security, and future-proofing solutions.
- Take ownership of complex projects, driving them from conception to successful implementation.
- Change agency to set high bar and uplevel across teams on culture, process and engineering practices. Empower teams through effective collaboration, knowledge sharing, and tool building.
- Identifying areas in the company platforms likely to change and integrating flexibility in the design for these areas improving engineering velocity
- Long term technology vision to continually modernize and keep systems relevant in constantly changing environments
- Lead engineering support, release, and on-call responsibilities for an "always-on" 24/7 site
Top Skills Details
- 10+ years of experience in building large scale, distributed web platforms/APIs
- 5+ years as an architect/technical lead responsible for the end to end product scope across multiple domains.
- Experience in creating and driving technical strategy and roadmap across multiple domains. Balanced trade-offs to ship scalable solutions supporting long-term goals.
- Successfully forge alignments with key partners on significant architecture decisions and technical direction for ambiguous problem areas through Architectural Decision Records (ADR)
- Developed and drove adoption of technical practices that improved team velocity to deliver high-quality code across the organization.
- Solid knowledge in end to end system design involving GraphQL/Rest APIs, Messaging Systems, RDBMS/NOSQL, Containers, Infrastructure layer, with deep knowledge in several key components. Experience in GraphQL is preferable.
- Strong proficiency in Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, and microservices
- Experiences in leading complex technical initiatives across teams independently from inception to successful delivery.
- Still technically hands-on, able to contribute to critical systems and guide implementation (T27 - Maintains a strong hands-on coding presence (50%)
Additional Skills & Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in EE, CS or other related field.
- 10-15+ years of experience designing and scaling large-scale distributed systems
- Proven ownership of end-to-end product platforms supporting millions of users and high transaction volumes
- Deep experience defining and driving architecture across multiple teams/domains
- Strong leadership in a matrix environment, influencing engineering, product, and business stakeholders
- Demonstrated ability to navigate ambiguity and define technical direction from scratch
- Expertise in event-driven architecture, distributed systems, and system scalability at extreme scale
- Strong track record of mentorship, team leadership, and raising engineering bar
- Excellent decision-making skills, thrive on dealing with ambiguities and changes.
- Strong sense of ownership and communication skills , embrace diverse ideas across organization and align on a mutually agreed direction to get things done and move forward.
- Deeply care about growing others, great at mentoring and coaching, creating a large positive impact on organizational culture.
- Strong learning ability, determined
- Attending knowledge sharing sessions, both within the company and externally
- Learning transferable skills
- Growth mindset and constantly looking for opportunities to learn
- Learns adjacent areas (project management, people management, product management) in addition to core technical skills to better support the organization
Experience Level
Expert Level
Job Type & Location
This is a Contract position based out of Toronto, ON.
Pay and Benefits
The pay range for this position is $100.00 - $105.00/hr.
Workplace Type
This is a hybrid position in Toronto,ON.

propos de TEKsystems et TEKsystems Global Services

Nous sommes un fournisseur de services aux entreprises et de technologies. Nous acclrons la transformation de nos clients. Notre comptence en stratgie, conception, excution et oprations libre la valeur de l'entreprise par un ventail de solutions. Nous sommes une quipe de 80 000 personnes qui collaborent avec plus de 60 000 clients, notamment 80 % du Fortune 500 en Amrique du Nord, Europe et Asie, qui collaborent avec nous dans le cadre de nos capacits full-stack et notre rythme. Nous sommes des penseurs stratgiques, des collaborateurs pratiques qui aident les clients exploiter le changement et matriser le dynamisme de la technologie. Nous btissons le futur en livrant les rsultats et en crant un impact positif dans nos communauts mondiales. TEKsystems et TEKsystems Global Services sont des entreprises d'Allegis Group. Dcouvrez d'autres informations TEKsystems.com.

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About TEKsystems and TEKsystems Global Services

We're a leading provider of business and technology services. We accelerate business transformation for our customers. Our expertise in strategy, design, execution and operations unlocks business value through a range of solutions. We're a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 customers, including 80% of the Fortune 500 across North America, Europe and Asia, who partner with us for our scale, full-stack capabilities and speed. We're strategic thinkers, hands-on collaborators, helping customers capitalize on change and master the momentum of technology. We're building tomorrow by delivering business outcomes and making positive impacts in our global communities. TEKsystems and TEKsystems Global Services are Allegis Group companies. Learn more at TEKsystems.com.

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