Staff Software (Automation) Developer, Backend Technologies

Location CA-ON-Ottawa
ID 2024-32179
Category
Engineering
Position Type
Full-Time
Remote
No

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About Kinaxis  

Elevate your career journey by embracing a new challenge with Kinaxis. We are experts in tech, but it’s really our people who give us passion to always seek ways to do things better. As such, we’re serious about your career growth and professional development, because People matter at Kinaxis.  

 

In 1984, we started out as a team of three engineers. Today, we have grown to become a global organization with over 2000 employees around the world, with a brand-new HQ based in Kanata North in Ottawa. As one of Canada’s Top Employers, we are proud to work with our customers and employees towards solving some of the biggest challenges facing supply chains today.   

 

At Kinaxis, we power the world’s supply chains to help preserve the planet’s resources and enrich the human experience. As a global leader in end-to-end supply chain management, we enable supply chain excellence for all industries, with more than 40,000 users in over 100 countries. We are expanding our team as we continue to innovate and revolutionize how we support our customers. 

Location

Hybrid - our office in Ottawa, Canada 

About the team

The biggest companies in the world use Maestro every day to solve their supply chain challenges.  Our team owns its incredibly powerful supply chain planning engine.  This engine stores and serves the data and performs calculations with incredible speed, accuracy and reliability. 

We’ve just embarked on an ambitious and transformational project to put cloud first - rewrite our planning engine and update it with the newest technologies and approaches.  At the same time, we need to support all our existing customers.  It’s an ambitious project!  We’re unleashing the team’s creativity and innovation to support more users, more customers, more data, more calculations, faster performance. 

In this role, you will develop test automation using a variety of technologies (Java, Go, etc.) that will ensure reliability of our new architecture.  You may also be tasked with developing or expanding features of our planning engine.

What you will do

  • The most immediate need is to design, implement and enhance one or more test automation frameworks and to guide less experienced co-workers in the above
  • Actively participate in product design reviews
  • Contribute to the implementation and testing of new functionality
  • Elaborate the work required to implement and test new functionality.  Create and evaluate work items, test plans and strategies.
  • Design and implement tests at all test levels: subsystem, integration, contract, etc.
  • Enhance product quality by preventing, finding and fixing bugs and by measuring and improving product performance
  • Contribute to a variety of activities throughout the feature development lifecycle, including maintaining environments, triaging failures, etc.

What we are looking for

  • 5+ years of relevant software test automation
  • Proven experience and strong skills in software development with deep experience in at least one language
  • Proven experience and strong skills in automation and test framework development using various languages and technologies (Java, Python, RPC) 
  • High level design skills – describe feature requirements, break it down into smaller pieces and design a solution.   
  • Ability to understand and write Go code (or willingness to learn) 
  • Solid Cloud knowledge, including Kubernetes (K8s) for orchestrating containerized environments and Docker for containerization
  • Proven hands-on experience with cloud deployment and managing scalable test automation frameworks in cloud-based infrastructures
  • Working knowledge of continuous deployment and integration, OpenTelemetry
  • Ability to write performant code, ability to diagnose performance bottlenecks 
  • Flexible; willing to work with a still-evolving technology stack
  • Demonstrated quick learner 
  • Adaptable to a dynamic environment 
  • Interest in developing cloud-based, horizontally scalable enterprise software 
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Work With Impact: Our platform directly helps companies power the world’s supply chains. We see the results of what we do out in the world every day—when we see store shelves stocked, when medications are available for our loved ones, and so much more. 

 

Work with Fortune 500 Brands: Companies across industries trust us to help them take control of their integrated business planning and digital supply chain. Some of our customers include Lockheed Martin, Yamaha, P&G, Honda, and more. 

 

Social Responsibility at Kinaxis: Our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee weighs in on hiring practices, talent assessment training materials, and mandatory training on unconscious bias and inclusion fundamentals. Sustainability is key to what we do and we’re committed to net-zero operations strategy for the long term. We are involved in our communities and support causes where we can make the most impact.

People matter at Kinaxis and these are some of the perks and benefits we created for our team:

 

  • Flexible vacation and Kinaxis Days (company-wide day off on the last Friday of every month)
  • Flexible work options
  • Physical and mental well-being programs
  • Regularly scheduled virtual fitness classes
  • Mentorship programs and training and career development
  • Recognition programs and referral rewards
  • Hackathons

 

For more information, visit the Kinaxis web site at www.kinaxis.com or the company’s blog at http://blog.kinaxis.com. Kinaxis strongly encourages diverse candidates to apply to our welcoming community. We strive to make our website and application process accessible to any and all users. If you would like to contact us regarding the accessibility of our website or need assistance completing the application process, please contact us at recruitmentprograms@kinaxis.com. This contact information is for accessibility requests only and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications.

Kinaxis is committed to ensuring a fair and transparent recruitment process. We use artificial intelligence (AI) tools in the initial step of the recruitment process to compare submitted resumes against the job description, to identify candidates whose education, experience and skills most closely match the requirements of the role. After the initial screening, all subsequent decisions regarding your application, including final selection, are made by our human recruitment team. AI does not make any final hiring decisions.

 

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