As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll lead product development, collaborate in agile teams, mentor peers, improve systems, and ensure application quality.
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:
- Leading the development direction and technical health of a medium-sized product area composed of multiple features
- Designing and developing future-focused complex applications or maintaining and improving existing ones
- Becoming a subject matter expert in your product’s business domain
- Coaching and mentoring peers across all phases of the project lifecycle
- Reviewing designs and code collaboratively with team members and Architects
- Debugging systems effectively and efficiently, thanks to deep technical understanding
- Producing technical documentation and proposing refactors to improve system architecture
- Advocating for and implementing rigorous quality assurance throughout the development process
- Executing performance tuning, usability improvements, automation, and system balancing
- Contributing to common codebases and defining engineering standards
- Participating extensively in code reviews and knowledge-sharing sessions
- Supporting, maintaining, and documenting new and existing solutions
- Identifying and evaluating new technologies for implementation
- Communicating project status, risks, and resolutions within an agile development methodology
- Collaborating with non-technical stakeholders to refine requirements and course-correct when needed
- Demonstrating initiative by identifying future work opportunities and areas for improvement
- 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:
- Consolidating core services through a vendor-agnostic, abstracted service layer
- Establishing comprehensive observability for continuous performance monitoring
- Championing code reuse, optimization, and quality across applications
- Implementing and streamlining WCAG compliance, security, and performance validation processes
- Coaching and mentoring software engineers to elevate team capability
- Building and delivering maintainable, high-quality software for a best-in-class ecommerce experience
- Initiating refactors of low-performing software components
- Contributing to the architecture of new products and defining clear system contracts
- Improving test coverage and application quality
- Setting up non-regression detection systems with defined SLAs
- Enhancing developer experience through team-building events and knowledge-sharing initiatives
Are you our next Senior Software Engineer?
- 5+ years of experience in full stack web application development in Agile/Scrum environments
- Expertise in Microservices, API Development (REST, GraphQL), Node.js, TypeScript, React, and Next.js
- Proficiency in additional languages like C#, PHP, and JavaScript best practices
- Familiarity with transactional and NoSQL databases
- Hands-on experience with GraphQL APIs (e.g., Apollo), SST (Serverless Stack), and AWS
- Experience with CDN configuration (Fastly VCL/Edge Compute), web servers, and load balancers
- Strong understanding of DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, performance tuning, and scalability
- Experience integrating with 3rd party APIs, OAuth 2.0, and headless solutions
- Passion for secure, robust, maintainable platforms and schema-first API design
- Mastery of version control tools (Git) and project management tools (Jira or similar)
- Knowledge of eCommerce business processes and headless enterprise architectures
- Excellent communication, documentation, and problem-solving skills
- Ability to remain flexible and adaptable in ambiguous situations
- A proactive mindset for identifying root causes and developing solutions
- Leadership skills demonstrated through mentoring and technical guidance
- A passion for your craft matched by a love for outdoor activities and living life to the fullest
Equal Opportunity
Arc’teryx is committed to actively creating and fostering a culture of inclusivity where voices are heard, people are seen, and values are respected. We care about the uniqueness of our applicants, employees, and guests, and we do so in a safe space fueled by curiosity and acceptance.
Creating an inclusive workplace is connected to our core value Do Right while also having the added benefit of helping make our business better. We believe inclusion helps us to create a healthier, happier workplace, drive creativity and innovation, and reflect the communities where we operate.
All applicants, employees, and guests can expect equality of opportunity and fair treatment in alignment with our values.
Leave it Better
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Join us in creating positive change in ourselves, our communities, and the world.
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Disruptive evolution. In pursuit of better. Always.
Commit. We set bold objectives and see them through.
Top Skills
Api Development
Apollo
AWS
C#
Ci/Cd
Fastly
Git
GraphQL
Graphql Apis
JavaScript
JIRA
Microservices
Next.Js
Node.js
PHP
React
Rest
Sst
Typescript
ARC'TERYX North Vancouver, British Columbia, CAN Office
2220 Dollarton Hwy, North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, V7H 1A8
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