Paramount Commerce

Engineering Manager – Merchant Experience

Paramount Commerce

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Canada

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Salary

💰 CA$180,000 - CA$220,000 per year

About the role

  • Lead, manage, mentor, and scale a high-performing team of engineers dedicated to building merchant centric features, APIs, portals, and systems that optimize merchant operations.
  • Partner closely with Product Management, other Engineering domains, and our Data Science team to understand merchant needs and translate them into pragmatic technical solutions.
  • Architect and deliver scalable, high-performance systems that improve merchant onboarding, engagement, and loyalty.
  • Ensure seamless integration and interoperability across our platforms, enabling merchants to efficiently manage their operations.
  • Foster a culture of technical excellence through code reviews, best practices, and modern software engineering principles.
  • Be hands-on with design and architecture decisions while leading by example in technical discussions and implementation reviews.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of software engineering experience, with strong proficiency in Golang, and 3+ years leading engineering teams.
  • Deep understanding of distributed systems, scalability, and performance.
  • Experience designing and operating microservices, with a strong grasp of Event Sourcing.
  • Comfortable working in Kubernetes and modern cloud environments (AWS / GCP).
  • Experience partnering closely with Product to own a domain end-to-end.
  • Hands-on when it matters, guiding design and architecture without micromanaging.
  • Strong judgment around trade-offs, balancing innovation with proven approaches.
  • Calm, confident, and collaborative, with strong opinions that are loosely held.
  • Customer minded, with care for how technical decisions impact real people.
Benefits
  • Competitive salary
  • Generous Vacation & Summer Fridays
  • Health & Dental Benefits
  • Wellness Spending Account
  • Retirement savings matching plan
  • Remote/Hybrid work (Thursdays in office if you live in the GTA)
  • Birthday Day Off
  • Quarterly Socials
  • Volunteer Days to give back to our community
  • Parental leave top up program
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
Golangdistributed systemsscalabilityperformancemicroservicesEvent SourcingKubernetesAWSGCPsoftware engineering
Soft Skills
leadershipmentoringcollaborationjudgmentcustomer mindedcalmconfidencecommunicationtechnical excellenceinnovation