Platform Engineer

Responsibilities

• Software Development & Technical Leadership (Primary Focus):
  Lead the design, development, and evolution of fullstack software solutions for Store and POS platforms.
• Serve as the technical leader for a team of developers, providing handson guidance, mentorship, and code review across all phases of the SDLC.
• Drive strong engineering practices including clean architecture, test automation, secure coding, and maintainable design.
• Make and guide technical decisions that balance delivery speed, solution quality, and longterm sustainability.
• Promote a languageagnostic, OOdriven approach, enabling teams to work effectively across backend, frontend, and client side technologies.
• Store Platform Engineering – design and build backend services, APIs, and integration layers that support reliable transaction processing and instore workflows.
• Contribute to solutions supporting instore mobile applications and storeresident systems.
• Ensure solutions are designed for store environments, including high availability, low latency, intermittent connectivity, and operational resilience.
• Partner with Solution and Enterprise Architects to implement approved architecture patterns, standards, and reference designs.
• Business & Delivery Collaboration – work closely with Product Owners and Project Managers to understand business requirements and translate them into clear technical designs.
• Provide technical input into backlog refinement, estimates, delivery planning, and dependency management.
• Act as a trusted technical partner to business stakeholders, clearly communicating constraints, tradeoffs, risks, and implementation options.
• Support predictable, high quality delivery aligned with both shortterm priorities and longterm platform direction.
• SDLC, Quality & Engineering Excellence – lead and continuously improve endtoend SDLC practices, from design and implementation through testing, deployment, and production support.
• Establish and uphold engineering standards for source control, branching strategies, automated testing, and documentation.
• Ensure solutions are well documented and support effective onboarding and longterm maintainability.
• Dev Ops Enablement (Supporting Focus): collaborate with platform and Dev Ops teams to enable CI/CD pipelines that support rapid and safe application delivery.
• Ensure systems are built with operability in mind, including deployment readiness, monitoring, and rollback capability.
• Contribute to deployment strategies such as phased rollouts and controlled releases appropriate for storecritical systems.
• Reliability, Performance & Support: design systems with a strong focus on performance, reliability, and transaction integrity.
• Support incident triage and rootcause analysis, driving codelevel and design improvements to prevent recurrence.
• Encourage observability practices that provide visibility into application behaviour across store locations.
• Governance & Standards Adherence: ensure solutions comply with enterprise architecture, security, and governance standards.
• Provide practical feedback into standards and patterns based on handson development experience.

• Core Technical & Leadership
  
  Skills:
  
  Strong, handson experience as a fullstack software engineer and technical leader.
• Deep understanding of object oriented design, application architecture, and modern engineering practices.
• Proven ability to lead teams through the full SDLC, delivering high quality, production ready software.
• Experience working with integrationheavy, distributed, and business critical systems.
• Strong understanding of performance optimization, resiliency patterns, and error handling.
• Languages & Frameworks (Nice to Have):
  Experience with one or more object oriented languages, such as Java (Spring Boot) and C++. Experience with frontend or client side development using frameworks such as Angular or Flutter. Ability to learn and adapt quickly to new languages and frameworks is more important than deep expertise in any single stack.
• Dev Ops & Platform Awareness:
  Working knowledge of CI/CD practices and Dev Ops tooling as they relate to application delivery.
• Experience developing applications that run in containerized or…