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Elevate your career journey by embracing a new challenge with Kinaxis. We are experts in tech, but it’s really our people who give us passion to always seek ways to do things better. As such, we’re serious about your career growth and professional development, because People matter at Kinaxis.
In 1984, we started out as a team of three engineers. Today, we have grown to become a global organization with over 2000 employees around the world, with a brand-new HQ based in Kanata North in Ottawa. As one of Canada’s Top Employers, we are proud to work with our customers and employees towards solving some of the biggest challenges facing supply chains today.
At Kinaxis, we power the world’s supply chains to help preserve the planet’s resources and enrich the human experience. As a global leader in end-to-end supply chain management, we enable supply chain excellence for all industries, with more than 40,000 users in over 100 countries. We are expanding our team as we continue to innovate and revolutionize how we support our customers.
Location : Ottawa, Canada
About the teamThe biggest companies in the world use RapidResponse every day to solve their supply chain challenges. Our team owns its incredibly powerful supply chain planning engine. This engine stores and serves the data and performs calculations with incredible speed, accuracy and reliability.
We’ve just embarked on an ambitious and transformational project to put cloud first - modernize our planning engine and update it with the newest technologies and approaches. We’re unleashing the team’s creativity and innovation to support more users, more customers, more data, more calculations, faster performance.
What you will do- Design, prototype, research and make technology choices
- Write code that implements your designs. It’s a greenfield project!
- Balance complexity, execution time and memory footprint to deliver performant code
- Participate in our agile process to continually improve delivery, quality and reliability
- Contribute to a multi-year vision with incremental deliverables
We’re in the early stage of the project and our technology choices are not finalized. Here’s what we’re tending towards
- Go and C++
- Docker, Kubernetes
- Linux
- Experience designing and implementing highly-scalable, distributed and robust transaction-based systems
- Experience with data infrastructure on the cloud, including different types of cloud storage
- Practical experience with distributed systems in production
- Deep experience with several languages, including at least one of C++ and Go
- A demonstrated history of learning new languages and technologies as needed, and applying the most appropriate technology effectively at scale
- Linux experience
- Cloud exposure and Kubernetes experience are desirable
- Post-secondary degree in Computer Science (or related) and 10 – 15 years development experience
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Work With Impact: Our platform directly helps companies power the world’s supply chains. We see the results of what we do out in the world every day—when we see store shelves stocked, when medications are available for our loved ones, and so much more.
Work with Fortune 500 Brands: Companies across industries trust us to help them take control of their integrated business planning and digital supply chain. Some of our customers include Lockheed Martin, Yamaha, P&G, Honda, and more.
Social Responsibility at Kinaxis: Our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee weighs in on hiring practices, talent assessment training materials, and mandatory training on unconscious bias and inclusion fundamentals. Sustainability is key to what we do and we’re committed to net-zero operations strategy for the long term. We are involved in our communities and support causes where we can make the most impact.
People matter at Kinaxis and these are some of the perks and benefits we created for our team:
- Flexible vacation and Kinaxis Days (company-wide day off on the last Friday of every month)
- Flexible work options
- Physical and mental well-being programs
- Regularly scheduled virtual fitness classes
- Mentorship programs and training and career development
- Recognition programs and referral rewards
- Hackathons
For more information, visit the Kinaxis web site at www.kinaxis.com or the company’s blog at http://blog.kinaxis.com. Kinaxis strongly encourages diverse candidates to apply to our welcoming community. We strive to make our website and application process accessible to any and all users. If you would like to contact us regarding the accessibility of our website or need assistance completing the application process, please contact us at recruitmentprograms@kinaxis.com. This contact information is for accessibility requests only and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications.
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