Posted 2 months ago
Principal Software Engineer
@ Patch & Permasearch
Toronto, Ontario
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Overview
Patch & Permasearch is hiring a Principal Software Engineer on a one-year contract with a strong chance of extension. The role architects scalable API and distributed systems, leads technical standards and cross-team transformation, and oversees cloud, CI/CD and observability strategy.
Responsibilities:
- Architect scalable APIs and distributed systems with React, NestJS and Spring Boot
- Lead cross-functional technical transformations and cloud migrations
- Design cloud-native, event-driven microservices and CI/CD pipelines
- Oversee telemetry, reliability and data strategy
Requirements summary:
- 12+ years of hands-on software engineering experience
- 8+ years of expert web and API development
- Deep expertise in cloud-native design, APIM, Docker and IaC
- Strong zero-trust security and OAuth2/OIDC knowledge
- Outstanding executive communication skills
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- Employer posting date
- 2026-08-26
- First seen by our source
- 2026-10-16
- Source record updated
- 2026-10-16
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Job details
| Seniority | Senior |
| Department | Software development |
| Experience | 12+ years |
| Travel | air: none · ground: none |
| Work setting | Office |
| Position | Mostly sitting |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer high |
| Languages | English |
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Job description
Job Title: Principal Software Engineer
Duration: 1 Year Contract with strong chance of extension
Responsibilities:
- Architecture & Strategic Vision: Architect and guide the implementation of highly scalable, resilient APIs and enterprise-grade distributed systems using React, NestJS, and Spring Boot.
- Technical & Cultural Leadership: Drive engineering excellence, establish technical standards, and mentor senior engineers across teams. Promote a culture of continuous learning, secure code delivery, and operational rigor.
- Strategic Change Management: Lead cross-functional transformationssuch as modernizing legacy architectures, migrating cloud platforms, or instilling AI-assisted development practiceswhile actively managing risk and technical friction.
- Cloud Architecture & Infrastructure: Design cloud-native, event-driven microservices architectures. Establish enterprise patterns for containerized deployments (Azure Container Apps, APIM, Docker), CI/CD pipelines via Azure DevOps, and declarative Infrastructure as Code (Bicep/Terraform).
- System Observability & Reliability: Oversee end-to-end telemetry strategies using Azure monitoring and telemetry to ensure zero-downtime releases, proactive incident response, and observable system health.
- Data & Performance Strategy: Lead the data strategy by designing and optimizing complex relational and NoSQL database schemas tailored for scale, security, and low latency.
- Agile Execution & Delivery: Champion iterative delivery in fast-moving environments. Drive bias for action through feature-flagged deployments, rapid prototyping, and a strong shipping-to-production mindset over theoretical completeness.
- Cross-Functional Partnership: Partner with product executives, business stakeholders, and principal architects to translate strategic business vision into scalable, value-delivering software architectures.
Qualifications:
- 12+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, with a proven track record of architectural leadership on high-throughput, enterprise-scale platforms.\
- 8+ years of expert-level web and API development using modern frameworks (React, NestJS, Node.js) and enterprise Java/Spring Boot.
- Enterprise Architecture Mastery: Deep expertise in event-driven microservices, cloud-native design patterns, API gateway configuration (APIM), containerization (Docker, Azure Container Apps), and automated IaC (Bicep, Terraform, or ARM).
- Strategic & Excellence Mindset: Demonstrated ability to evaluate architectural trade-offs, drive long-term technical roadmaps, balance speed-to-market with technical debt resolution, and maintain uncompromising quality standards.
- Change Management & Technical Transformation: Proven history of leading org-wide technical changes (e.g., adopting new tech stacks, modernizing DevOps practices, or implementing secure AI-assisted development pipelines).
- Operational & Release Excellence: Expertise in defining robust branching strategies, feature-flag architectures, multi-region deployment plans, and disaster recovery strategies.
- System Security & Compliance: Deep understanding of zero-trust security frameworks, modern identity/auth patterns (OAuth2, OIDC), and enterprise data compliance standards.
- Executive Communication: Outstanding ability to articulate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders, align executive teams around technical strategies, and lead high-impact decision-making forums.
Nice-to-Have Qualifications:
- Domain Expertise: Experience building rule/pricing engines or complex transaction-processing platforms.
- Advanced Frontend Architecture: Familiarity with TanStack, micro-frontends, or modern state management libraries at scale.
- Observability Engineering: Hands-on mastery of Application Insights, Log Analytics, OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing, and automated incident remediation.
- Process Mastery: Experience utilizing advanced features in Agile tools (ADO/JIRA) to structure multi-team planning, track technical debt metrics, and optimize flow efficiency.
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