Senior Software Engineer – Mobile App

Your Opportunity at ARC’TERYX:

ARC’TERYX is growing -- in guest experience excellence, in variety and sophistication of business models, and in operational volume and critical workflows. The Technology group is a key part of supporting and accelerating ARC’TERYX growth!

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in the development of our technical product domain. Your expertise will guide team decisions, product capabilities and software architecture. Collaborating with a team of driven and experienced software engineers, you will work alongside colleagues who are passionate about proactively improving existing systems and ensuring long-term operational stability. You thrive in a team environment and are eager to learn from your colleagues and are motivated to share your skills and expertise.

This role is based out of ARC’TERYX headquarters in North Vancouver, BC. We are open to a hybrid or remote work. Remote candidates must be committed to Pacific time zone hours. Please note that candidates must be eligible to work in Canada.

Meet Your Future Team:

The technology team builds the backbone for arcteryx.com websites. We work with cross-functional agile squads to build and roll out new features, improve performances, and build self-serve tool for our business stakeholders to create an amazing online experience for our guests.

• Directing the development direction and technical health of a medium-sized product area made up of a collection of features
• Becoming a subject matter expert of your specific product business domain
• Understanding systems deeply, enabling you to debug them effectively and efficiently without significant difficulty
• Demonstrating at least one major skill outside of programming such as devops, performance optimization, monitoring, or visual design
• Helping mentor and raise the technical bar of other team members
• Producing technical documentation for existing parts of the system and propositions to refactor parts of the product domain
• Participating extensively in code reviews, and mentoring others via code reviews and pairing
• Executing performance tuning, improvement, balancing, usability, and automation
• Contributing to the common code bases and defining standards for the team
• Presenting at team meetings for knowledge sharing
• Owning technical design for projects of moderate complexity and understanding the trade-offs in creating good software in their area
• Requiring very little oversight beyond high-level direction; taking a complex user story, breaking it down into sub-tasks, and completing sub-tasks with relative ease
• Showing initiative beyond knocking tasks off a list; identifying and suggesting areas of future work for yourself or your team
• Seeking evidence to support your ideas and starting to build cases for these ideas
• Working effectively with non-tech members of your area; identifying problems with requirements and helping the team course-correct around these issues
• Aligning with ARC'TERYX leadership practices and culture in your daily work

Coaching and mentoring of other software engineers

Building and delivering maintainable, high-quality software to support the growth and maintenance of a best-in-class ecommerce experience

Implementing best in class developer experiences through team building events, knowledge sharing sessions, and other initiatives

Initiating refactoring of low performing part of the software

Contributing to the software architecture of new products

Improving the tests and quality of the application

Defining clear contracts between systems and maintaining integration

Setting up non regression detection systems with SLA

You have 5+ years relevant experience with full stack development in an Agile/Scrum environment

You are programming language polyglot, and you excel in 1 or 2 languages

You have extensive knowledge of programming best practices

You are proficient in TypeScript and NodeJS

You are expert in React Native, and comfortable with Swift/Kotlin, and the specific mobile only challenge

You are used to work with transactional and NoSQL databases

You are proficient in writing and maintaining automated user tests and unit tests

You advocate for a schema-first approach, i.e. defining the API schema first before writing any code or implementing the APIs

You have experience integrating with 3rd party APIs, OAuth 2.0, headless solutions

You have experience working with cloud computing providers, container solutions, and CI/CD pipelines

You have knowledge of Micro Services concepts and architecture

You have experience with CDN, Web Servers, Load balancers configuration and management

You have great communication, problem solving, and documentation skills

You are proactive in identifying the root cause of issues and developing solutions

You remain highly flexible and adaptable when faced with ambiguity

Your passion for your work is paralleled by your passion for getting outside and living it

The salary range for this role is CAD$94,000 - CAD$124,000