Ciklum is looking for a Lead Java Engineer to join our team full-time in Canada. We are a custom product engineering company that supports both multinational organizations and scaling startups to solve their most complex business challenges. With a global team of over 4,000 highly skilled developers, consultants, analysts and product owners, we engineer technology that redefines industries and shapes the way people live.
About the role: Responsibilities: Own architecture across product and platform:
Define and evolve platform and application architecture, including service boundaries, integration patterns, data modeling, and API standards
Lead architecture reviews and influence roadmaps to balance near-term delivery with long‑term simplicity, maintainability, and performance
Identify systemic product/platform opportunities (simplification, modularization, shared services) and drive cross‑team execution
Introduce new technologies and best practices:
Evaluate and introduce new technologies responsibly pilot, measure outcomes, document learnings, and scale adoption where valuable
Establish best practices in design, testing, secure coding, CI/CD, and production readiness; create reference implementations and templates
Raise engineering quality through clarity: design docs, decision records, coding standards, and measurable technical KPIs
Solve the hardest cross-team problems:
Partner across teams to unblock complex initiatives: modernization, major refactors, performance tuning, data migrations, and distributed systems challenges
Drive alignment across stakeholders making tradeoffs explicit and decisions durable
Help teams debug and resolve high‑severity production issues; codify learnings into better patterns and guardrails
Global cloud and regulated environment leadership:
Guide architecture for global cloud deployments (multi‑region strategy, DR, availability, and operability)




Support FedRAMP/government cloud certification readiness by shaping technical controls implementation plans with Security/Compliance
Mentor and coach across the organization:
Mentor engineers across teams; coach technical leads on design quality, execution, and engineering judgment
Build learning mechanisms: architecture guilds, tech talks, post‑incident reviews, and hands‑on design workshops
Requirements: Technical breadth (multi-stack):
Ten years of overall experience, with at least five years as a Staff or Principal engineer at B2B SaaS startups
Strong working knowledge across: Java/J2EE, Oracle, Postgres, AWS, GCP, Azure, and modern frontend frameworks (React, Vue.js)
Ability to move between systems‑level architecture and hands‑on problem solving, deep where needed, broad by default
Experience building and operating modern B2B SaaS applications with strong engineering fundamentals
Architecture leadership:
Proven success setting architectural direction across multiple teams and making durable technical decisions
Strong systems design skills: scalability, reliability, performance, data consistency, and operational maturity
Ability to drive alignment, influence roadmaps, and lead through ambiguity with pragmatic tradeoffs
Global cloud + FedRAMP experience:
Experience with global cloud systems and production operations at scale (multi‑region deployments, DR/BCP, observability)
Experience supporting FedRAMP/government cloud certification and/or comparable regulated environments
Mentorship and communication:




Strong written and verbal communication; able to author explicit design docs and influence across engineering, product, and leadership
Track record of mentoring and coaching engineers across teams, improving quality and raising the technic al bar
Education:
A bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field
Master’s degree preferred
Desirable: Experience designing shared services (identity/auth, platform APIs) and driving adoption through developer experience improvements
Experience with Kubernetes, service meshes, and platform tooling that improves developer productivity
Experience leading large-scale modernization of legacy Java/J2EE systems
Experience in commercial real estate software
What’s in it for you? Strong community: Work alongside top professionals in a friendly, open‑door environment
Growth focus: Take on large‑scale projects with a global impact and expand your expertise
Tailored learning: Boost your skills with internal events (meetups, conferences, workshops), Udemy access, language courses, and company‑paid certifications
Endless opportunities: Explore diverse domains through internal mobility, finding the best fit to gain hands‑on experience with cutting‑edge technologies
Care: Healthcare, Basic Life Insurance, Short and Long-term disability insurance according to the Company’s Benefit Plans
About us: At Ciklum, we are always exploring innovations, empowering each other to achieve more, and engineering solutions that matter. With us, you’ll work with cutting‑edge technologies, contribute to impactful projects, and be part of a One Team culture that values collaboration and progress. Now expanding across Canada, we’re looking for talented professionals to strengthen our North American footprint. Join us to innovate at scale and deliver world‑class solutions to global clients.
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📌 Lead Java Engineer (Manitoba)
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