Manager, Software Engineering

Job description

**Your Opportunity at ARC’TERYX:** As the Engineering Manager at Arc'teryx, you will be for leading and managing a team of software developers and leads in the development and maintenance of our web and mobile platforms. In this role, you will use your advanced technical skills and expertise in web development to guide the team and ensure that projects are completed efficiently and to a high standard. You will also play a key role in the technology strategy across the end-to-end headless systems that deliver our e-commerce guest experience via web and mobile platforms, ranging from our front-end user experience to our middleware and backend integrations with our ERP. Additionally, you will be an integral part of the technology strategy for Arc'teryx digital properties, contributing your insights and expertise to guide the direction of our web and mobile platforms. Overall, your technical leadership and mentorship will be crucial in driving the success of our digital properties. This role is primarily based out of our North Vancouver office and is open to hybrid remote work. Candidates must be eligible to work in Canada. **Meet your future team:** You will have the opportunity to join a dynamic and talented team of web application developers at Arc'teryx. Our team has a diverse range of skill sets and works collaboratively in cross-functional agile squads to develop and deploy new features, fix bugs, and create an exceptional e-commerce experience for our guests. We are passionate about what we do and are always looking for ways to improve and innovate. We believe that diversity of thought and experience is key to our success and are committed to fostering a positive and inclusive work environment. ### If you were the Engineering Manager now, here are some of the core activities you would be doing: - Providing direction and coaching to the web and mobile development teams in all phases of the project life cycle - Attracting, retaining, and developing top talent to build a world-class software engineering/ web development team, developing career pathways for your team members and help them grow through coaching, mentoring, goal setting and ongoing assessment - Inspiring each team members’ creativity and problem-solving abilities - Developing functional specifications and designs for future focused complex applications or modifying/maintaining complex existing applications - Consistently reviewing the designs and code of team members, often in collaboration with software engineering managers, colleagues and architects - Helping design, code, debug and test unit test solutions as required - Partnering with product management and software engineering managers to define a multi-year vision, strategy, and technical product roadmap and backlog to support the continued growth of e-commerce and mobile technologies - Executing code analysis, requirements analysis, identification of code metrics, system risk analysis, and software reliability analysis - Remaining committed to a service-oriented design and analysis - Conducting regular unit testing and quality assurance - Executing performance tuning, improvement, balancing, usability, automation - Working to support, maintain and document new and existing solutions - Continuing to identify and evaluate new technologies for implementation - Acting as a technical escalation point for the web developers or architects on teams - Ensuring the team are knowledgeable and available to provide application support for software running in production 365/24/7; and joining the team in handling incidents that require escalation - Collaborating and contributing to the continuous improvement of Arc’teryx SDLC, Project and other methodology - Remaining up to speed with new developments of web and mobile capabilities - Working with project managers and program managers on project resourcing by ensuring developers are available at the right time, with the right skill set - Checking in with project managers and technical leaders to ensure team performance and direction is on track to achieve project goals to scope, time and budget ### Here are some of the things you could be working on in the future: - Contributing to and owning technical design decisions that positively impact the software architecture of the Arc’teryx e-commerce and web application platform - Building and delivering maintainable, high-quality software to support the growth and maintenance of a best-in-class e-commerce experience - Implementing best in class developer experiences through team building events, knowledge sharing sessions, and other initiatives - Contributing to our Engineering Guild and helping raise the technical bar at Arc’teryx ### Are you our next Engineering Manager? - You have 5+ years’ experience leading front end and back-end developers - You have 5+ years’ development experience in an Agile/Scrum environment - You have 7+ years’ experience Full Stack web development - You have 3+ years’ experience mobile application development - You have strong organizational, communication and problem-solving skills - You have strong written and spoken English - You have advanced knowledge of front-end web technologies (Javascript, React, NextJS, HTML, CSS, etc.) - You have knowledge and experience with back-end web technologies (Node, PHP, etc.), ERP systems and integrations, and database technologies (MSSQL, MySQL) - You are proactive in identifying the root cause of issues and developing solutions - You remain highly flexible and adaptable when faced with ambiguity - You are able to balance autonomy and collaboration - You inspire breakthrough thinking and continuous improvement - You seek the best (but sometimes not the easiest) solutions, with an unwavering commitment to do what is right - Your passion for your work is paralleled by your passion for getting outside and living it - You have experience with Jira or similar scrum tools - You have experience with Git or other source control tools - You have experience with CDN implementation and management - You have experience with Content Management Systems and Information Architecture - You have strong knowledge of web and mobile infrastructure ### Compensation: The salary range for this role is CAD$108,000 - CAD$142,000