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.
If you were in the Senior Software Engineer now, here are some of your core responsibilities and activities you would be doing:
- 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
Here are some of the things you could be working on in the future:
- 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
Are you our next Senior Software Engineer?
- 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
Compensation:
Most new team members join between the start and midpoint of the range, where you can contribute right away while continuing to grow your craft, your collaborations, and your impact at Arc’teryx. This range reflects market alignment and the scope of the role. Individual pay is determined by your skills, experience, and level of responsibility.
We’re committed to fair, equitable, and competitive pay, reviewed regularly to ensure internal alignment and market relevance. Transparency is part of how we follow through on our commitments and how we honour the value you bring to our team.
In addition to base pay, Arc’teryx supports people through benefits designed to sustain both work and life:
- Health & wellbeing - Extended health, dental, and vision coverage, including mental health support, fertility benefits, gender-affirming care and a 24/7 Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
- Financial wellbeing - RRSP matching and eligibility for Arc'teryx Annual Incentive Plan and access to Employee Stock Purchase program (ESPP) where applicable.
- Time & Flexibility - Paid time off, wellness time, and No Wasted Day program (dedicated paid days to get outside & explore).
- Family support - Parental leave top-up and a nesting period for new parents.
- Growth, community & gear - Professional development opportunities, Arc'teryx Academies (outdoor skill-building events), Employee Belonging Councils, and access to employee discounts and Pro Deals (exclusive discounted pricing on gear).
*Eligibility for certain programs may vary by role.
Skills Required
- 5+ years relevant experience with full stack development in an Agile/Scrum environment
- Programming language polyglot; strong proficiency in one or two languages
- Extensive knowledge of programming best practices
- Proficient in TypeScript and NodeJS
- Expert in React Native
- Comfortable with Swift and Kotlin and mobile-specific challenges
- Experience with transactional (SQL) and NoSQL databases
- Proficient in writing and maintaining automated user tests and unit tests
- Advocate for a schema-first API design approach
- Experience integrating with 3rd party APIs, OAuth 2.0, and headless solutions
- Experience with cloud computing providers, container solutions, and CI/CD pipelines
- Knowledge of microservices concepts and architecture
- Experience with CDN, web server, and load balancer configuration and management
- Strong communication, problem solving, and documentation skills
- Proactive, flexible, and able to work with ambiguity
What We Do
Arc’teryx is a global design company based in North Vancouver, B.C. that specializes in technical high-performance outerwear and equipment. We design and manufacture a wide range of mountain sports outdoor apparel and equipment for all conditions and experiences, including mountaineering, ice and rock climbing, skiing, snowboarding, and trail running. Our company is built on a passionate and relentless commitment to design, craftsmanship and performance. We have a unique construction process that enables us to create technical products that can be trusted to perform at the point of extreme need. We are uniquely positioned in our industry as we have our own factory located in New Westminster, BC, which enables us to build products with a meticulous focus on detail and performance. We leverage this manufacturing knowledge and share it with our global partner factories. In the Coast Mountain Range behind our headquarters and design centre in North Vancouver, we field test our products in real world conditions allowing us to create the best-fitting, longest-lasting, highest-performing technical products available. We distribute our outerwear and equipment through more than 3,000 retail locations worldwide, in over 40 countries globally, including 38 branded and outlet stores in Europe, North America and Asia. The company started with six employees in 1989 and now has more than 1000 employees in Canada.
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