About the Role
Zynque is FIQ's integration platform (iPaaS) for supply chain and logistics. This role involves scaling a young production platform into an enterprise-grade, high-throughput system, owning its architecture as it evolves under real load and customer usage.
Responsibilities
- Own technical direction and architecture evolution of a live, revenue-generating platform
- Scale throughput and reliability while customers onboard, including zero-downtime changes to running systems
- Harden the platform: tenant isolation, rate limiting, security, data integrity
- Establish observability, SLOs, and incident practices as the customer base grows
- Lead performance and capacity work ahead of demand, not behind it
- Raise engineering standards through design reviews and mentorship
- Partner with Product to balance platform investment against feature delivery
- Identify and retire scaling risks and technical debt before they compound
Requirements
- 10+ years building and operating cloud-native backend or platform systems
- Owned the scaling of a production SaaS or data platform through rapid customer growth: hardening, re-architecture under load, and maturing an early product to enterprise grade
- Deep hands-on experience with high-throughput distributed systems: event streaming or message queues, async processing, idempotency, retries, backpressure
- Strong performance engineering: profiling, load testing, horizontal scaling, capacity planning
- Production reliability ownership: observability, SLOs, incident management, fault-tolerant design
- Multi-tenant SaaS experience, including tenant isolation and noisy-neighbor problems
- Hands-on daily coder with founder-level ownership; comfortable in low-process, high-ambiguity environments
Skills
- Python
- JavaScript/TypeScript (Next.js)
- Kafka or similar streaming infrastructure at scale
- Supply chain or logistics systems exposure (WMS, OMS, TMS, EDI integrations)
- AI-assisted engineering workflows
- Experience shipping AI/LLM-driven capabilities in production (rag, generation pipeline, agentic workflows)
Location
- Toronto
Work Type
- Onsite/ Hybrid
- Full-Time
Experience Level
- Principal Engineer
- 10+ years
Salary/Compensations
- $175–$210K CAD per year (negotiable)
Benefits
- Comprehensive health and dental coverage for you and your family
- Competitive paid time off and flexible leave policies
- Retirement savings programs and employer contributions
- Dedicated learning and development budget
- Remote and hybrid work options
- Equipment allowances
- Internet reimbursements
- Business travel coverage
- Employee stock options (ESOP), where applicable
About the Company
- Fulfillment IQ is a supply chain engineering and transformation company that helps brands, retailers, and 3PLs design, build, and scale high-performance logistics operations.
- We work at the intersection of strategy, operations, and technology where we solve complex, real-world problems across warehouse design, automation, order management, transportation, and end-to-end supply chain execution.
- Our teams combine deep domain expertise with strong technical capability, delivering outcomes through consulting, systems implementation, and proprietary platforms that accelerate time-to-value and reduce delivery risk.
- If you enjoy working in complex environments, partnering closely with clients, and seeing your work make a tangible impact on how global commerce moves, this is the place where your skills and judgment truly come to life.
- Fulfillment IQ is a people-first company built in trust, collaboration, and ownership.
- We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and are committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and high-performing workplace.
Equal Opportunity
- As an equal opportunity employer, we celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all team members.
- Fulfillment IQ is a people-first company built on trust, collaboration, and ownership. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and are committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and high-performing workplace.
