Principal Software Engineer (Full stack)

Job Description

Principal Software Engineer (Full stack)

Canada (Remote)

At G-P, our mission is to break down barriers to global business, enabling opportunities for everyone, everywhere. With remote-first and diverse teams all around the world, our people are key to achieving this mission. That’s why we trust our Dream Team members with the flexibility and autonomy to do their best and most innovative work, encourage and support their personal growth and career development, and believe in recognition for a job well done.  

Our industry-leading SaaS-based Global Employment Platform™ enables our customers to expand and grow into 180+ countries, creating more opportunities for global success – without requiring entity or subsidiary setup. The technical opportunities you’ll experience here have a positive impact on people and their work/life possibilities around the world. Beyond the power of our platform, we never forget that behind every hire is a human being. And that brings us to you. 

If you have a passion for automation, are a deep innovator, and want to solve complex problems that lead to a world of positive results, consider G-P. Here, your knowledge and experience will be crucial to helping design and develop high-performing cloud-based software products using traditional Agile methodologies and modern frameworks.  

Beyond a competitive compensation and benefits package, what we offer to all employees along the way is the clear and simple promise of Opportunity Made Possible. Come expand your skills in new ways and experience the thrill of your best innovations becoming reality. 

What you will do:

• Drive the technical evolution of our best-in-class SaaS cloud platform taking the lead on initiatives including technical design, prototyping, building, and overseeing execution towards agreed goals
• Collaborate with product managers, technical architects, engineering management, software engineers and other SMEs across the business to understand their requirements and suggest appropriate solutions to achieve the required features
• Take a technical lead role in one or more agile teams providing hands-on technical expertise, ensuring technical progress against plans while safeguarding functionality, security, scalability, and performance
  ○ Deliver solutions in a cloud-managed and serverless-first platform ecosystem
  ○ Ensure consistent use of shared platform components
  ○ Design and develop reusable libraries and APIs
  ○ Contribute to best practice for backend and frontend application development via the Well Architected Framework and its pillars
• Develop and promote a full spectrum of test suites and quality mindset (unit, contract, integration, etc)
• Mentor Software Engineers to allow for knowledge development through advice, coaching and training opportunities

 What we are looking for:

• Extensive experience in architecting and developing highly scalable enterprise level services, platforms or products
• Extensive experience in building large scale distributed enterprise applications in geographically distributed teams
• Experience working with marketing stack is a definite plus
• Knowledge of modern cloud architectures and technologies; experience with AWS is a huge plus
• Deep knowledge of back end and front end stack with knowledge in most or all of the following: Java, Node.js, Python, Redis, React.js/Typescript
• Working knowledge of content management system, experimentation, SEO is desired
• Excellent communication skills and experience documenting and delivering technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Experience in a startup or high-growth environment and ability to hustle is desirable

Hands-on experience in any of the following areas a plus:
○ Integrating CRM systems such as Salesforce, HubSpot with internal systems
○ Integrating 3rd party systems with internal and external workflows

The annual gross base salary range for this position is $130,000 to $160,000 (CAD). Actual compensation for this position may vary and will depend on multiple factors including relevant qualifications, experience, education and geographic location. This position is also eligible for an annual bonus dependent on various factors, including and without limitation, individual and company performance in addition to base salary.

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