
Engineering Manager – Merchant Experience
Paramount Commerce
full-time
Posted on:
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