Employment Details

Duration: 6-Month Contract (Full-time engagement; highly extendable)

Work Arrangement: Remote (Solid preference for Vancouver, BC area; open to remote across North America with requirement to operate on Pacific Time with an 8:30 AM PST daily stand‐up)

Salary: CA$90,797.03 yearly

Contract type: Full-time

Advantages

- High‐Traffic Digital Commerce Impact: Architect backend search, browse, and catalog discovery platforms that power upper‐funnel experiences for millions of global digital consumers.
- Balanced Architecture & Engineering Scope: Enjoy a balanced role combining high‐level systems design and architectural governance with hands‐on coding and technical problem solving.
- Long‐Term Extension Potential: Secure a strategic initial 6‐month consulting assignment with strong multi‐term extension potential.
- Modern Cloud‐Native Tech Stack: Design natively on AWS utilizing OpenSearch/Elasticsearch, microservices, containerization, and modern observability tools.

Responsibilities

- Search Engine & Platform Architecture: Architect, design, and manage large‐scale search and catalog engines (OpenSearch, Elasticsearch, Lucene) supporting critical upper‐funnel digital commerce discovery flows.
- Hands‐on Design & Delivery (50/50): Balance architectural leadership and roadmapping with hands‐on development, code reviews, and direct implementation alongside cross‐functional engineering pods.
- System Design Artifacts: Create detailed architectural blueprints, including logical, conceptual,



and data integration diagrams adhering to enterprise architecture standards.
- Cross‐Functional Sprint Planning: Partner with product management and engineering leads to define technical roadmaps, sprint scope, QA strategies, and production reliability metrics.
- DevOps & Platform Automation: Leverage Terraform, Jenkins, Git, and automated CI/CD pipelines to streamline deployment velocity, code quality gates, and cloud provisioning.
- Reliability & Production Escalation: Serve as the senior technical escalation point for critical production incidents, ensuring rapid recovery, conducting root‐cause analysis, and implementing resilient preventive controls.
- Global Team Alignment: Collaborate daily with distributed engineering teams across North America and offshore development centers, maintaining smooth operational cadence during core Pacific Time business hours.

Qualifications

- Professional IT Depth: 8+ years of progressive post‐baccalaureate experience in software engineering, technical systems design, and application architecture.
- Enterprise Search Engine Mastery: Hands‐on experience building, scaling, and managing enterprise search engines using OpenSearch, Elasticsearch, or Lucene implementations.
- Cloud Platform Proficiency:



Strong background in cloud‐native application architectures, natively deployed on AWS (or comparable enterprise cloud platforms such as Azure or GCP).
- Backend Development Skills: Hands‐on coding and systems design proficiency in backend languages such as Java, Go, or Python.
- Database & High Availability: Demonstrated experience designing for 24/7 high availability using relational databases and NoSQL solutions (e.g., DynamoDB, Elasticsearch).
- DevOps & Infrastructure as Code: Working familiarity with CI/CD automation and tooling, including Terraform, Jenkins, Git, Splunk, and APM monitoring suites.
- Communication & Technical Leadership: Proven ability to lead architectural design reviews, present tradeoffs to leadership, and mentor engineering teams across complex technical domains.
- Schedule Alignment: Ability to align with Pacific Standard Time (PST) working hours, including daily 8:30 AM PST stand‐ups.

Summary

If you are a tech‐savvy Software Architect or Staff/Principal Engineer who pairs 8+ years of software engineering depth with hands‐on OpenSearch/Elasticsearch engine mastery, modern AWS architecture expertise, and a balanced passion for systems design and code delivery, this 6‐month contract opportunity is an ideal next step. Bring your platform engineering precision, search architecture vision, and team-oriented technical leadership to our client's team today

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