Senior Algorithm Developer

About Kinaxis

Are you looking to join an innovative, market-leading company where you can truly elevate your career? At Kinaxis we are serious about culture, we are serious about technology, we are serious about customers, and we are serious about not taking ourselves too seriously. If you are looking to be part of an incredible growth story, then we might just be the place for you!

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, 6 global office and a best-in-class HQ in Ottawa, Canada. As winners of several Top Employer awards globally, we are proud to work with our customers and employees towards solving some of the biggest challenges facing supply chains today.

Kinaxis is a global leader in modern supply chain orchestration, powering complex global supply chains, and supporting the people who manage them. Our powerful, AI infused platform provides full transparency and visibility across end-to-end supply chains, enabling our customers to make faster, better decisions. We are trusted by renowned global brands to provide the agility and predictability needed to navigate today’s volatility and disruption.

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.

Ottawa and Toronto, Canada
- Hybrid

Other Canadian locations
- Remote

Production Scheduling is the process of arranging, controlling, and optimizing work and workloads in a manufacturing environment. Kinaxis Enterprise Scheduling unifies production planning and detailed scheduling on a single, concurrent platform—allowing planners and schedulers to immediately understand the impact of demand and supply changes, from long‑term plans down to the shop floor schedule. The Enterprise Scheduling team builds and scales an enterprise‑grade scheduling application with the flexibility of a site‑level scheduler.

We focus on developing fast, scalable algorithms, applying heuristic and optimization techniques where they deliver the most value, and ensuring our solutions are configurable, extensible, and production‑ready. Our challenges are complex, our data is large, and our customers rely on us to deliver correctness, performance, and explainability at scale.

Annual cash compensation ranges from $102,000 to $150,000, plus a discretionary 10% company bonus. The final offer within this range will reflect the successful candidate’s skills and experience.

This is an existing job vacancy

• As a Senior Algorithm Developer, you will contribute across the full lifecycle of algorithm backed product development, working at the intersection of real-world scheduling problems and enterprise software delivery.
  
  You will:
• Design, implement, and test production scheduling models, constraints, heuristics, and meta heuristics
• Translate real-world manufacturing and scheduling constraints into robust computational and mathematical models
• Investigate and apply advanced scheduling techniques, including targeted use of AI/ML where appropriate
• Lead or contribute to the design, implementation, and evolution of core scheduling logic in a commercial, enterprise‑grade product
• Define and contribute to test strategies, including unit, integration, regression, and performance testing, to ensure correctness and scalability
• Collaborate closely with agile team members across engineering, product, QA, and support throughout design, implementation, and delivery
• Participate actively in design discussions, code reviews, and scrum rituals, helping maintain a high bar for quality and maintainability
• Support product stability by triaging…