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About the Role

At Retail Client, we're changing the way the world shops and sells. Our platform empowers millions of buyers and sellers globally. We're committed to pushing boundaries and reinventing 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. 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 to connect people and build communities, creating economic opportunity for all.

Responsibilities

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.
Author ADRs (Architecture Decision Records) that serve as blueprints or proposed solutions for technical problems and influence 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.
Act as change agency to set a high bar and uplevel teams on culture, process, and engineering practices.
Empower teams through effective collaboration, knowledge sharing, and tool building.
Identify areas in company platforms likely to change and integrate flexibility in design to improve engineering velocity.
Develop 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.

Requirements

10+ years of experience in building large scale, distributed web platforms/APIs.
5+ years as an architect/technical lead responsible for 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.
Maintains a strong hands-on coding presence (50%).
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.

Skills

GraphQL
Rest APIs
Messaging Systems
RDBMS/NOSQL
Containers
Infrastructure layer
Java
Spring Boot
Microservices
Event-driven architecture
Distributed systems
System scalability

Location

Toronto, ON

Work Type

Contract
Hybrid

Experience Level

Expert Level

Education Level

Bachelor's degree in EE, CS or other related field.

Salary/Compensations

$100.00 - $105.00/hr

About the Company

We are a global ecommerce leader changing the way the world shops and sells.
Our platform empowers millions of buyers and sellers in more than 190 markets.
We are 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.
TEKsystems and TEKsystems Global Services are leading providers of business and technology services, accelerating 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.

Equal Opportunity

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, for all positions located in the city and county of San Francisco, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
We may use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to support parts of our hiring process, including sourcing, screening, and evaluating candidates. AI helps assess applications and qualifications, but final decisions are made by our hiring team. By applying, you acknowledge and agree that your application may be reviewed using AI tools.