Principal Software Architect

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September 13

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Wiser Solutions, Inc.

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eCommerce • Retail • B2B

Wiser Solutions, Inc. is a company that provides comprehensive data-driven solutions for CPG brand manufacturers, eCommerce brands, marketplace sellers, and retailers. Its offerings include price optimization, product discoverability enhancement, retail execution support, and insights for growth and competitiveness in both online and in-store environments. Wiser's tools focus on leveraging pricing data, automation, and market intelligence to help businesses protect margins, maximize sales, and maintain brand consistency. The company's solutions are built on data quality and are designed to enable better commerce execution for its clients.

501 - 1000 employees

🛍️ eCommerce

🛒 Retail

🤝 B2B

💰 Seed Round on 2016-03

📋 Description

• Serve as a senior technology leader connecting strategic vision with hands-on execution • Guide large-scale platform evolution, mentor technical teams, and solve complex engineering problems • Partner with engineers, managers, and executives to shape architecture and drive technical transformation • Review designs, epics, and proposals to ensure scalability, reliability, and maintainability • Lead and facilitate design reviews on microservices, DDD, hexagonal architecture, and event-driven design • Drive technical transformation through hands-on prototyping, emerging tech adoption, and architectural modernization • Design and deliver cloud-native, Kubernetes-based solutions with deep AWS expertise • Monitor and optimize cloud expenditure using FinOps practices and lead cost-management initiatives • Support multi-cloud strategies and evaluate new cloud services • Communicate architectural decisions to technical and non-technical audiences and present vision to stakeholders • Design and implement key platform components and create proofs-of-concept • Stay proficient in multiple programming languages and contribute to on-call rotations

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of progressive experience in software architecture, including several at a senior/principal level • Demonstrated ability to influence and shape architectural direction at organizational scale • Proven track record leading technical transformation initiatives • Strong leadership and mentoring skills with the ability to inspire without direct authority • Deep expertise in AWS and Kubernetes • Experience with multiple cloud vendors and multi-cloud approaches • Strong DevOps/CI-CD background, with hands-on experience in Terraform • Familiarity with cloud cost optimization frameworks and FinOps practices • Expertise in modern architectural patterns: microservices, hexagonal, DDD, bounded contexts, and event-driven approaches • Familiarity with enterprise architectural frameworks (e.g., TOGAF, Zachman) • Strong programming background (TypeScript, Node.js, or Python preferred; Go a strong bonus) • Experience building high-scale distributed systems and services • Experience expressing system designs with C4 Modeling • Knowledge of relational, NoSQL, and search databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Elasticsearch) • Knowledge of messaging systems (RabbitMQ, Kafka, NATS) • Proficiency in continuous delivery, deployment pipelines, and automated testing practices • Exceptional communicator and trusted mentor • Adaptable and resilient in fast-changing, ambiguous environments • Contribute to on-call rotations for critical production systems • Preferred: Experience with React and full-stack development; background in retail, e-commerce, or consumer insights platforms; Event Storming and event sourcing; ML/AI platform integration; vendor evaluation experience

🏖️ Benefits

• Base annual pay estimated CAD$180,000 to CAD$210,000 • Performance-based discretionary bonuses and variable pay plans available • Remote work (Canada)