Platform Engineer

Responsibilities

• Software Development & Technical Leadership (Primary Focus)
• Lead the design, development, and evolution of full‑stack software solutions for Store and POS platforms.
• Serve as the technical leader for a team of developers, providing hands‑on guidance, mentorship, and code review across all phases of the SDLC.
• Drive strong engineering practices including clean architecture, test automation, secure coding, and maintainable design.
• Make and guide technical decisions that balance delivery speed, solution quality, and long‑term sustainability.
• Promote a language‑agnostic, OO‑driven approach, enabling teams to work effectively across backend, frontend, and client‑side technologies.
• Store Platform Engineering
• Design and build backend services, APIs, and integration layers that support reliable transaction processing and in‑store workflows.
• Contribute to solutions supporting in‑store mobile applications and store‑resident systems.
• Ensure solutions are designed for store environments, including high availability, low latency, intermittent connectivity, and operational resilience.
• Partner with Solution and Enterprise Architects to implement approved architecture patterns, standards, and reference designs.
• Business & Delivery Collaboration
• Work closely with Product Owners and Project Managers to understand business requirements and translate them into clear technical designs.
• Provide technical input into backlog refinement, estimates, delivery planning, and dependency management.
• Act as a trusted technical partner to business stakeholders, clearly communicating constraints, trade‑offs, risks, and implementation options.
• Support predictable, high‑quality delivery aligned with both short‑term priorities and long‑term platform direction.
• SDLC, Quality & Engineering Excellence
• Lead and continuously improve end‑to‑end SDLC practices, from design and implementation through testing, deployment, and production support.
• Establish and uphold engineering standards for source control, branching strategies, automated testing, and documentation.
• Ensure solutions are well‑documented and support effective onboarding and long‑term maintainability.
• DevOps Enablement (Supporting Focus)
• Collaborate with platform and DevOps teams to enable CI/CD pipelines that support rapid and safe application delivery.
• Ensure systems are built with operability in mind, including deployment readiness, monitoring, and rollback capability.
• Contribute to deployment strategies such as phased rollouts and controlled releases appropriate for store‑critical systems.
• Reliability, Performance & Support
• Design systems with a strong focus on performance, reliability, and transaction integrity.
• Support incident triage and root‑cause analysis, driving code‑level and design improvements to prevent recurrence.
• Encourage observability practices that provide visibility into application behaviour across store locations.
• Governance & Standards Adherence
• Ensure solutions comply with enterprise architecture, security, and governance standards.
• Provide practical feedback into standards and patterns based on hands‑on development experience.
• What you bring:
• Core Technical & Leadership Skills
• Strong, hands‑on experience as a full‑stack software engineer and technical leader.
• Deep understanding of object‑oriented design, application architecture, and modern engineering practices.
• Proven ability to lead teams through the full SDLC, delivering high‑quality, production‑ready software.
• Experience working with integration‑heavy, distributed, and business‑critical systems.
• Strong understanding of performance optimization, resiliency patterns, and error handling.
• Languages & Frameworks (Nice to Have)
• Experience with one or more object‑oriented languages, such as Java (Spring Boot) and C++
• Experience with frontend or client‑side development using frameworks such as: Angular or Flutter
• Ability to learn and adapt quickly to new languages and frameworks is more important than deep expertise in any single stack.
• DevOps & Platform Awareness
• Working knowledge of CI/CD practices and DevOps tooling as they relate to application delivery.
• Experience developing applications that run in containerized or cloud‑native environments (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Familiarity with infrastructure‑as‑code and configuration‑driven environments is an asset.
• Collaboration & Ways of Working
• Experience working in Agile or SAFe environments, supporting multiple squads and shared dependencies.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non‑technical audiences.
• Comfortable influencing outcomes without direct authority through technical credibility and collaboration.
• Tools & Technologies
• Object‑oriented languages and frameworks such as Java (Spring Boot), C++, Angular, Flutter, or equivalent
• CI/CD platforms such as Azure DevOps or Jenkins
• Container technologies including Docker and Kubernetes
• Monitoring

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