Principal Engineer

The Role

Our team is looking for a Principal Engineer to join a team of engineering leaders to help shape Kobo’s e-commerce software landscape.

At Kobo we develop software to cover a rich set of domains - hardware devices, eCommerce, content rendering, and a burgeoning data ecosystem.

If you like to coach, collaborate, mentor, be creative, get your hands dirty, and generally just get lit-up by solving hard problems with a team of highly engaged people, you’ll fit right in.

What You Get To Do :

Work cross-functionally to architect solutions to complex problems, delivering proposals that are flexible, robust and taking into account business needs.

Collaborate with teams to help them implement and test new features.

Mentor engineers on best practices, technologies, and patterns.

Show up as a team member, encouraging others through example in collaboration, productivity, effective communication and love for details.

Who You Are :

10+ years of experience building and maintaining high-quality software

Experience building e-commerce systems at scale and leading transformation

Great communication skills both with technical engineers and non-technical stakeholders.

Great at mentoring other developers, being an evangelist for best practices

Deep understanding of various architectural patterns and the tradeoffs therein

Strong experience with both .NET and Java

Experience with both development and operational aspects of software systems

Experience with messaging systems, document databases

The Perks :

Flexible hours and remote working environment

4 extended summer long weekends

Full benefits starting from your first day

Paid Volunteer days, unlimited sick days, and 3% RRSP matching

Monthly commuting allowance for hybrid employees

Flexible health spending account

Training budget + Udemy account

Free Kobo device + free weekly e-book or audiobook

Weekly Kobo Tech University sessions

Maternity / paternity leave top up

90 Day Work from Anywhere program

Daily lunch credit when in-office and in-office snacks

Dog friendly office