Intermediate Software Developer, Back End

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

Our office in Ottawa, Canada (Hybrid)

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 an 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

1. Design and implement high-performance, scalable, and maintainable features of our cloud-native backend system and/or test framework.
2. Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code, ensuring high-quality deliverables through peer reviews and adherence to coding standards.
3. Design and implement tests at all test levels: unit, subsystem, integration, contract, etc.
4. Elaborate the work required to implement and test new functionality. Create and evaluate work items, test plans, and strategies.
5. Actively participate in feature design and test plan reviews.
6. Contribute to a variety of activities throughout the feature development lifecycle, including maintaining environments, triaging failures, etc.

What we are looking for

1. 2-4 years of relevant software development experience.
2. Demonstrated history of contributing features to a production code or automated test framework.
3. Solid experience developing a significant amount of code in at least one object-oriented programming language (Go, Java, C# or any other modern language preferred). Willingness to learn and work in multiple languages.
4. Ability to extract test plans from project requirements and implement automated tests based on the test plans.
5. High- and low-level design skills – describe the problem at a high level, abstract the problem, break it down into implementable pieces.
6. Willingness to work with a still-evolving technology stack.
7. Quick learner.
8. Adaptable to a dynamic environment.
9. Interest in developing cloud-based, horizontally scalable enterprise software.

Highly desired skills & experience

1. Cloud knowledge, including Kubernetes (K8s) for orchestrating containerized environments and Docker for containerization.
2. Experience designing and implementing database and query engines.
3. Hands-on experience with asynchronous and concurrent programming.
4. Experience developing distributed, cloud-based enterprise software.
5. Ability to write performant code, ability to diagnose performance bottlenecks.

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.

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.