Principal Software Engineer

February 16

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We're on a mission to improve everyday life while creating a more sustainable world.

smart thermostats • home energy management • business energy management • Wi-Fi thermostats • IoT

201 - 500 employees

💰 Series C on 2018-05

📋 Description

• As a Principal Software Engineer for ecobee’s Cloud, Data and Service Platform, you will own the technical vision, strategy and roadmap of the foundational service platform. • You will oversee the development and maintenance of a multi-tier service platform for smart homes. • You will innovate, design, maintain and develop complex software solutions that meet customer needs. • Reporting to the VP of Engineering, you will enhance engineering operational excellence and collaborate with leaders in Product Management, Product Design, Engineering and Data Science.

🎯 Requirements

• You like to continuously challenge yourself and status quo by finding new and better ways to solve complex problems. Systems design and architecture are in your comfort zone • You love learning new technologies, especially if it means getting us there sooner • The bigger the challenge, the better. You fearlessly dive into issues of scale, concurrency, data management, security, redundancy and fail over • You identify and execute on significant company-wide opportunities by understanding how technical capabilities meet customer needs. • You set direction and best practices for large scale projects to a very high level of excellence • You establish high standards for APIs and software services, ensuring that our systems, infrastructure, tools, process and documentation deliver an enjoyable and frictionless developer experience • You have a multi-year, industry-leading perspective when building products and systems, ensuring they adapt to scale, usage and/or business needs well beyond ecobee’s current scope • You master and are a proponent of the craft of software development, automated testing, continuous integration and deployment, design patterns, etc • You understand to concepts and design patterns of Platform-as-a-Service, multi-tier platform architectures, and have strong experience in building effective CI/CD pipelines • You believe in and rely on metrics to continuously assess and improve software quality, operational health and fiscal efficiency • The team is a priority for you. You are a mentor for the technical team and take a proactive role in developing engineering talent • You have excellent verbal and written communication skills, which you utilize to bring everyone along a journey together with clear, shared understanding

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salaries, health benefits, and a progressive Parental Top-Up Program (75% top-up or five bonus days off). • Enjoy a fun and casual workplace with an open concept office, located at Queens Quay W & York St. • Be part of a truly welcoming workplace. We offer a mentorship program and bias training.