Senior Software Developer, Back End (C++) - Contract

About Kinaxis

Elevate your career journey by embracing a new challenge with Kinaxis. We are experts in tech, but it’s really our people who give us passion to always seek ways to do things better. As such, we’re serious about your career growth and professional development, because People matter at Kinaxis.  

In 1984, we started out as a team of three engineers. Today, we have grown to become a global organization with over 2000 employees around the world, with a brand-new HQ based in Kanata North in Ottawa. As one of Canada’s Top Employers, we are proud to work with our customers and employees towards solving some of the biggest challenges facing supply chains today.

At Kinaxis, we power the world’s supply chains to help preserve the planet’s resources and enrich the human experience. As a global leader in end-to-end supply chain management, we enable supply chain excellence for all industries, with more than 40,000 users in over 100 countries. We are expanding our team as we continue to innovate and revolutionize how we support our customers.

Location

This is a remote position. You can work from home and be located anywhere in Canada. Please note if you are located in Ottawa, Canada you will be required to be in the office 3 days per week in a hybrid schedule.

About The Role

This role is a 18 months contract

About The Team

The biggest companies in the world use Maestro every day to solve their supply chain challenges.  Our team owns an incredibly powerful supply chain planning engine.  This engine stores and serves the data and performs calculations with incredible speed, accuracy and reliability. 

We’ve just embarked on an ambitious and transformational project to put cloud first - rewrite our planning engine and update it with the newest technologies and approaches.  At the same time, we need to support all our existing customers . It’s a n ambitious project ! We’re unleashing the team’s creativity and innovation to support more users, more customers, more data, more calculations, faster performance. 

What you will do

• Design and implement high-performance, scalable and maintainable features of our cloud-native backend system
• Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code, ensuring high-quality deliverables through peer reviews and adherence to coding standards.
• Write unit testing, integration testing, and debugging to ensure robust and error-free software.
• Actively participate in product and feature design reviews
• Elaborate the work required to implement and test new functionality . Create and evaluate work items, test plans and strategies.
• Contribute to a variety of activities throughout the feature development lifecycle, including maintaining environments, triaging failures, etc.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior developers, fostering an environment of learning and growth
  
  

What we are looking for

• 5-7 years of relevant software development experience
• Demonstrated history of contributing significant features to a product as a coder.
• Solid experience developing a substantial amount of code for object-oriented applications in C++. Willingness to learn and work in other languages, such as Go
• Understanding of data structures, design patterns, asynchronous and concurrent programming. 
• Ability to write performant code, ability to diagnose performance bottlenecks
• Demonstrated history of decomposing complex solutions into well-defined components and designing component APIs.
• Willingness to work with a still-evolving technology stack
• Quick learner 
• Adaptable to a dynamic environment 
• Interest in developing cloud-based, horizontally scalable enterprise software  Highly desired  skills & experience
• Solid Cloud knowledge, including Kubernetes (K8s) for orchestrating containerized environments and Docker for containerization ) 
• Experience developing distributed, cloud-based enterprise software
  
  

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Work With Impact: Our platform directly helps companies power the world’s supply chains. We see the results of what we do out in the world every day—when we see store shelves stocked, when medications are available for our loved ones, and so much more.

Work with Fortune 500 Brands: Companies across industries trust us to help them take control of their integrated business planning and digital supply chain. Some of our customers include Lockheed Martin, Yamaha, P&G, Honda, and more.

Social Responsibility at Kinaxis: Our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee weighs in on hiring practices, talent assessment training materials, and mandatory training on unconscious bias and inclusion fundamentals. Sustainability is key to what we do and we’re committed to net-zero operations strategy for the long term. We are involved in our communities and support causes where we can make the most impact.

People matter at Kinaxis and these are some of the perks and benefits we created for our team:

• Flexible vacation and Kinaxis Days (company-wide day off on the last Friday of every month)
• Flexible work options
• Physical and mental well-being programs
• Regularly scheduled virtual fitness classes
• Mentorship programs and training and career development
• Recognition programs and referral rewards
• Hackathons
  
  

Kinaxis welcomes candidates to apply to our inclusive community. We provide accommodations upon request to ensure fairness and accessibility throughout our recruitment process for all candidates, including those with specific needs or disabilities. If you require an accommodation, please reach out to us at [email protected]. Please note that this contact information is strictly for accessibility requests and cannot be used to inquire about application statuses.

Kinaxis is committed to ensuring a fair and transparent recruitment process. We use artificial intelligence (AI) tools in the initial step of the recruitment process to compare submitted resumes against the job description, to identify candidates whose education, experience and skills most closely match the requirements of the role. After the initial screening, all subsequent decisions regarding your application, including final selection, are made by our human recruitment team. AI does not make any final hiring decisions.