At Kinaxis, who we are is grounded in our common belief that people matter. Each one of us plays an important part in accomplishing our work, building our culture and making a global impact.
Every day, we’re empowered to work together to help our customers make fast, confident planning decisions. This is how we create a better planet – for each other, for our customers and for generations to come. Our cloud-based platform RapidResponse ensures that the products we need – everything from medicine and cars, to day-to-day items like toothpaste – make it to market and into our hands when we need them with minimal ecological footprint.
We make the world better, and you can too.
Query Engine Sr. Staff Developer, Backend, C++
Job location: Ottawa, Ontario- Hybrid; Other Canadian locations - Remote
This is a permanent full-time position.
About the team
Our team is all about speed and scale. Through parallel processing, optimum memory usage and exploitation of the capabilities of the hardware, we are running more queries faster than ever before. Recent advances in CPU architecture and storage technology only add to the opportunities here. We use C++ because it gives us precise control over what happens at the hardware level, and we’re applying modern C++ language-standard features to maximize our code’s efficiency and expressiveness. Our code runs with high reliability on the biggest servers available. Development is supported by an extensive suite of automated tests that help us get our excellent reliability. We keep an eye on cloud computing concepts, services, and technologies to inform our technical vision and future development plans.
If you love performance and scale, challenging software engineering problems, and want to help the world’s supply chains function more smoothly, this is the job for you!
What You Will Do
- Balance complexity, execution time, and memory footprint to deliver performant solutions
- Design algorithms and data structures that minimize memory footprint and perform efficiently
- Enable scalable and performant operations of our multi-threaded query engine
- Harness the power of our automated test infrastructure and the creative energy of our testers to ensure your code keeps working correctly
- Advance your knowledge and application of modern C++ to optimize the code to achieve the above goals
- Collaborate closely with your Agile team members and other stakeholders
Technologies We Use
- C++ for core development
- C# for some infrastructure and testing
What We Are Looking For
- Someone with 8+ years of industry software development experience, with evidence of increasing technical responsibility, on enterprise-scale products
- Good communication and collaboration skills
- Experience writing efficient code for optimal memory/CPU usage, preferably in C++
- Multi-threaded C++ development experience, preferably on Windows
- Understanding of what’s going on “behind the scenes” at the CPU, memory, and system level for algorithms you write
- Experience profiling execution performance using Intel vTune or other performance analysis tools
- Ability to create and communicate high-level designs, then implement them with attention to details
- Drive to find best solutions – via innovation, collaboration, and/or use of existing proven frameworks/algorithms/patterns
- A desire to make a difference in the world!
Are you passionate about this area? Please apply!
Things That Would Definitely Help:
- Experience using C++ STL containers and algorithms
- Experience with Design Patterns
- Experience working in agile methodologies such as Kanban
- Background in, or understanding of, supply chain management
What we have to offer
- Challenging Work - We love solving highly complex problems. And as the global leaders in our industry, we never stop innovating—our work is never “done. That’s because across our teams and in all roles, every employee is empowered to bring their best ideas forward and to jump in and solve the problems they’re passionate about.
- Great People - We take our work seriously, but we don’t take ourselves too seriously! It’s in our DNA to celebrate, laugh, and have fun. We are stronger, together, when we are open, honest, and above all, real. Every person is valued here and plays an important role in our shared success.
- Global Impact - As a global team spanning continents, boundaries, and cultures, every day we are inspired by the impact our work has on our colleagues, our customers, our communities, and the world at large.
- Diversity, Equity and Inclusion - Diversity, equity and inclusion are more than words to us. They are the guiding principles for building a culture where we celebrate each others’ differences, continuously strive for equality and recognize that inclusion makes us stronger as individuals, a company and a global citizen.
For more information, visit the Kinaxis web site at www.kinaxis.com or the company’s blog at http://blog.kinaxis.com/.
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