Senior embedded engineer developing safety - critical ECU firmware for Hexagon Mining’s digital mining and vehicle - control technologies. Designing, testing, and commissioning embedded systems.
About the role
- Staff Software Engineer joining Achievers' Framework team focused on building scalable infrastructure. Responsible for authentication, API gateways, and fostering engineering best practices with a strong team.
Responsibilities
- Provide guidance and mentorship to a team of software developers with varying experience levels, fostering an environment of continuous learning and improvement.
- Design, build, and maintain innovative product features that enhance the Achievers platform.
- Work closely with product managers, designers, and other engineering teams to define requirements and translate them into technical solutions. Actively participate in cross-functional planning sessions to align on priorities and dependencies.
- Be hands-on with the codebase, actively engaging in code reviews and ensuring best practices are followed.
- Utilize a wide range of modern tools and technologies, including Python, Go, Kubernetes, Docker, Drone, Google PubSub, GraphQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Microservices, to solve complex challenges.
- Architect high-performance, highly available, and secure software solutions that scale to millions of users.
- Ship code regularly—multiple times a day, enabling continuous improvement and rapid delivery of new features.
- Take full ownership of features or modules from design through deployment, ensuring the quality and reliability of the codebase.
- Monitor application performance and optimize code to ensure it meets scaling, performance, and security requirements as the product grows.
- Contribute to and enforce engineering best practices, standards, and guidelines for coding, testing, and infrastructure across the team. Lead and initiate engineering improvements, whether it’s through tooling, processes, or adopting new technologies, to ensure the team is working effectively.
- Ensure that systems, designs, and decisions are well-documented, making it easier for other engineers to understand, maintain, and expand upon your work.
- Continuously learn and stay up-to-date with industry trends, emerging technologies, and software engineering practices to bring fresh perspectives and ideas to the team.
- Guide junior engineers not only on technical solutions but also on career development, helping them set goals, identify growth areas, and improve their soft skills.
Requirements
- 8+ years of relevant software development experience leading projects and especially system design, with at least 3 of them in a Senior/Staff capacity.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Strong programming skills in Python or Go are highly advantageous.
- Comfortable working in a UNIX/Linux environment
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
- Strong understanding of microservices architecture.
- Experience with distributed systems.
- Experience with API gateway design, gRPC, and service-to-service communication patterns
- Experience designing authentication and authorization systems (OAuth2, OIDC, PKCE, JWT)
- Ability to analyze business requirements and create technical design documents aligned with architecture standards
- Passion for performance profiling and benchmarking.
- Experience executing large-scale migrations with zero downtime in production systems
- Track record of building shared libraries or SDKs used across large engineering organizations
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field
- Experience working in Agile teams
Benefits
- Rewards for your impact through our Recognition and Rewards program
- Health Benefits and Life Insurance Coverage beginning on your first day
- Parental Leave Top-up
- Employer matched RRSP contributions
- Flexible Vacation to recharge, so you can bring your best
- Employee and Family Assistance Program offering mental health, legal, and financial counselling
- Supported professional development and career growth (Linkedin Learning, mentorship)
- Employee-Led Employee Resource Groups that celebrate our diversity
- Regular events designed to build connection, belonging, and well-being
- Hybrid flexibility, with time in our beautiful Liberty Village, Toronto office
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