Principal Software Engineer

At Backcountry, we're searching for a passionate Principal Software Engineer to join our engineering organization and drive the evolution of our outdoor retail ecommerce platform. This is a high impact leadership role for someone who thrives in complex systems, loves solving meaningful technical challenges, and wants to shape the future of our technology landscape.

Requirements

• Lead end to end software delivery including architecture design hands on development testing deployment documentation and production support for our ecommerce platform.
• Serve as a technical mentor and coach for engineers across levels supporting code reviews technical decisions and skill development.
• Partner with Product Design and Engineering leadership to deliver scalable user focused features that elevate business value.
• Champion modern engineering practices including clean architecture unit testing automation performance optimization and observability.
• Drive key initiatives as a technical leader occasionally guiding a small team of engineers from concept to delivery.
• Influence architectural direction and propose improvements that enhance system performance scalability reliability and maintainability.
• Produce high quality documentation including TRDs diagrams technical instructions and onboarding materials.
• Own reliability monitoring alerting and incident response for mission critical systems.
• Stay current with new technologies and contribute to innovation and continuous improvement across the engineering organization.
• Identify opportunities to simplify legacy components reduce technical debt and deliver long term efficiency gains.

Benefits

• Paid time off policies
• 401(k)/RRSP match
• Medical/dental/vision and a variety of supplemental policies
• Employee discounts at our portfolio companies