Location
Remote | Canada
Job description
Wiser Solutions is a suite of in-store and eCommerce intelligence and execution tools. We're on a mission to enable brands, retailers, and retail channel partners to gather intelligence and automate actions to optimize pricing, marketing, and operations initiatives, both in-store and online. Our Commerce Execution Suite is available globally.
Job Description
Wiser provides unparalleled consumer insights at a massive scale. Wiser helps retailers and brands drive revenue, reduce costs, and improve marketing efficiency. Today, Wiser’s mission is to capture and present information, in near real-time, that makes our customers smarter with decisions related to commerce execution. Our technology harnesses data through sophisticated web crawling technology to deliver an unmatched view of consumer shopping and purchase experience.
Wiser is currently looking for an Engineering Manager to join our Polaris Team. In this role, you will be responsible for maintaining the world class extraction and ML based matching systems that power the core of our business, used by fortune 500 brands and retailers. Day-to-day, you will produce creative solutions to complex problems, and learn new skills to complement your existing abilities.
For those wanting to craft large-scale platforms and make a real impact at Wiser, this role is a game-changer. You'll be teaming up with our ML experts to create and implement powerful AI/ML solutions, optimizing human workflows on the core Wiser platform.
Our team has experience using a wide range of technologies and years of cloud and big data experience. We are always learning and growing, so we can guarantee that you will not be bored with us!
If you are seeking an environment where you get to do meaningful work with other great engineers, then we want to hear from you!
What You Will Do
- Think like our customers – you will be the engineering thought leader and partner for the product owner responsible for our online data collection platform
- Mentor and lead – you will drive excellence in software craftsmanship within the team, as well as growing and stretching them to higher levels of achievement
- Write a lot of code – our coaches still play the game, so you’ll be in the code with your team delivering on our product roadmap
- Improve the quality of our solutions – you will hold yourself and your team members accountable to high quality standards
- Own the mission – you are driven to win, to build product that you are proud of, to deliver the solutions that truly solve our customer needs
- Manage systems of scale – processing over 200 million transactions per day and beyond.
- Bring new ideas to the table – some of our best innovations originate within the team
- Evaluate the technical trade-offs of decisions and build things that last and scale.
Qualifications
Technologies We Use
- Python, NodeJs, ReactJS, NestJs, Java
- AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform
- Postgres, MongoDB
- NATS, GraphQL, MemCache
Key Responsibilities
- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, with at least 3+ years managing a software team.
- Manage multiple high performing teams of software engineers with diverse experience.
- Proficiency with architecting and delivering solutions within a distributed software platform
- Own the technical roadmap and execution for projects, focusing on scale, performance and reliability of our systems.
- Communication with stakeholders, collaborate closely with the Product team, represent our customers' voice, and influence product roadmap with technical innovations.
- Proven ability to learn quickly, make pragmatic decisions, and adapt to changing business needs.
- Proven ability to work and effectively prioritize and organize your work and the work of team members in a highly dynamic environment.
- Track record of lifting and challenging teammates to higher levels of achievement.
- Focus on results: shipping software that matters to the company and the customer.
- Experience measuring, driving and improving the software engineering process.
- Experience overcoming the difficulties of managing projects with remote and global team members.
- Knowledge in an Agile software development environment,
Technical Experience
- You have sound understanding of one or more programing languages such as Python, NodeJs, or Java
- You have experience building low latency REST APIs.
- Expertise with CI/CD using modern tools such as Jenkins, ArgoCD, Github actions.
- Expertise with AWS, Linux, Docker, K8s, Terraform and Infrastructure concepts.
- Experience with queuing and caching frameworks such as NATS, MemCache, RabbitMQ
Bonus Points
- Knowledge of business rules engines
- Experience in UI libraries/frameworks like, React, NextJs
- Passion for data, analytics and AI/ML
- Experience working within a retail or ecommerce environment
Supervisory Responsibility
- Directly managing a distributed team of 8+ team members.
- Manage employee’s performance by holding regular 1-1's, conducting performance reviews, setting goal for each team member and optimizing their work.
- Hiring top-quality engineers on the team as needed
- Mentoring and growing team members into more senior roles
- Setting goals, gathering feedback, and delivering performance reviews as part of Wiser’s career management process
Additional Information
Other Duties - Please note this
job description
is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
EEO STATEMENT - Wiser Solutions, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibits Discrimination, Harassment, and Retaliation of any kind. Wiser Solutions, Inc. is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and applicants, providing a work environment free of discrimination, harassment, and retaliation. All employment decisions at Wiser Solutions, Inc. are based on business needs, job requirements, and individual
qualifications
, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, family or parental status, disability, genetics, age, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other status protected by the state, federal, or local law. Wiser Solutions, Inc. will not tolerate discrimination, harassment, or retaliation based on any of these characteristics.
Base pay is one part of our total compensation package. Pay is established on an individual basis after considering multiple factors such as relevant experience, education, and other qualifications
. In addition, we take into account geographical differentials and make sure pay is equitable with our current staff. For this position, our hiring range for base annual pay is estimated to be CAD$125,000 to $160,000 at the time of this posting.
Performance-based discretionary bonuses and variable pay plans are available for some positions.
If you require accommodation to complete any part of the application process or need an alternative manner to apply, please contact us at [email protected] or call (855) 469-4737 .
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