We are hiring a principal-level engineer to diagnose structural flaws in existing software architecture, design systems that guarantee long-term stability and quality, and lead the engineering organization.

1. Principal Software Architect

(Key Responsibilities)

- 1. Software Design Defect Analysis & Resolution
- Identify architectural anti-patterns in existing codebases and perform root-cause analysis
- Trace root causes of hard-to-reproduce defects such as performance degradation, memory leaks, and concurrency bugs (race conditions, deadlocks)
- Quantify technical debt in legacy systems and build a risk-prioritized improvement roadmap
- Propose actionable redesign solutions — including backward-compatibility and migration strategy — rather than purely theoretical proposals

- 2. Design & Management of Software Stability Assurance Systems

- Develop in-house static-analysis diagnostic rules and integrate them into the CI pipeline
- Design tiered severity quality gates and enforce them in the build process
- Design suppression/waiver governance policy — format validation, deadline management, and automatic severity escalation upon deadline expiration
- Establish system-level quality standards for memory safety, exception-handling consistency, and resource-disposal patterns
- Establish post-mortem processes based on log/dump analysis following incidents

- 3. Technical Problem Analysis, Design & Management

- Break down cross-team technical challenges, define design direction, and manage assigned engineers' progress




- Operate code/design review processes and give final approval on technical decisions
- Maintain technical documentation systems such as Architecture Decision Records (ADRs)
- Report technical risks and progress status to executives and other departments

(Required Qualification)

Education

- Bachelor's degree (BS) or higher in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field - required
- Master's degree (MS), Ph.D. — preferred

Experience

- 15+ years of hands-on software development experience, including 5+ years in an architecture/technical-lead role
- 3+ years managing an engineering team (team size of 5 or more)
- Experience leading technical evaluation

- C#: Expert-level with .NET (Framework/Core/5+), asynchronous programming (async/await, Task), LINQ, and memory management (including GC tuning)
- C++: Hands-on experience with contemporary C++ (11 and later), RAII, smart pointers, and template metaprogramming
- Interoperability experience between the two languages (P/Invoke, C++/CLI, etc.) — preferred

System-Level Understanding

- File I/O: File-system structure, buffering/caching strategies, performance characteristics of large-file processing, file locking and concurrent-access control
- Database (covering RDB / NoSQL / File-based DB):



Understanding of internal behavior, consistency models, and integration with query engines
- OS: Process/thread models, memory management, kernel/user-mode transitions, and platform differences between Windows and Linux

Quality & Design Competency

- Experience developing or customizing static-analysis tools
- Deep understanding and practical application of design and architecture patterns (Layered, Hexagonal, Event-Driven, etc.)
- Experience designing CI/CD pipelines and building quality gates
- Experience automating test design/structuring — distinct from test-execution automation — including identifying test targets, generating test scaffolding, and managing coverage
- Experience identifying technical debt through code review and formulating refactoring strategy

Communication

- Business-level English (capable of documentation, video conference, and technical discussion)
- Ability to explain technical content to non-technical stakeholders

(Preferred Qualification)

- Domain experience in industrial automation, Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES), semiconductor/electronics equipment, or robotics
- Experience leading gradual migration/modernization projects for large-scale legacy system
- Experience using and driving team adoption of AI coding assitants (Claude Code, GitHub, Gopiolt, etc)
- Contributions to open-source static-analystis tools, or experience distributing internally developed tooling
- Experience working with multinational teams

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📌 KYRC Principal Software Architect (Vancouver)
🏢 Koh Young Technology
📍 Vancouver