THE TEAM
The mission of the Platform Engineering team is to provide the process, tools, and coaching to drive Development and Engineering efficiency.
THE OPPORTUNITY
Aritzia is growing and our Platform Engineering team is growing with it. This is a unique opportunity to be part of the team responsible for providing training and ownership of integrations to drive scalability, productivity, and standardization. As the Manager, API Development, Platform Engineering, you will lead and motivate the team responsible for responsible for developing APIs to support Aritziaβs digital growth ambitions and play a pivotal role in ensuring that APIs built on top of our Digital platforms adhere to our enterprise standards and are scalable, available, reliable, and resilient. With the skills you gain in this role, the opportunities are endless β from a rewarding career in Platform Engineering to continued growth and development with Aritzia.
THE ROLE
As the Manager, API Development, Platform Engineering, you will:
- Manage and coach the team of API developers and automation engineers to ensure solutions are delivered within an acceptable timeframe and are of high quality.
- Partner with Digital delivery teams to own the backlog and roadmap of APIs required to support their work.
- Partner with our Enterprise Cloud Engineering & DevSecOps teams to adhere to our enterprise standards.
- Architect and build APIs that support backend functionality required to service requests.
- Implement structured testing that ensures functionality, identifying and addressing deficiencies.
- Work with our other platform teams to define a low-touch deployment approach for APIs.
- Ensure all APIs are monitored for uptime and availability within our Observability & Monitoring platform.
THE QUALIFICATIONS
The Manager, API Development, Platform Engineering has:
- Proven and best-in-class skills, applicable certifications, education, and/or experience
- Proficient in JavaScript, Typescript, Java.
- Basic understanding of React & ReactNative and how applications designed using these frameworks ingest APIs.
- Experience with designing & developing scalable, secure, reliable distributed services that power ecommerce & mobile app.
- Solid understanding of distributed caching and comfortable in using products like Redis for performance optimization of services.
- Understands the role of CDN and WAF to improve API availability and security.
- Willingness to learn the products within our enterprise platforms to build integrations (including Apigee X, Google Cloud Functions and SAP CPI Cloud Foundry).
- Willingness to learn the products within our digital platforms to implement the business logic required to services the API requests (including Salesforce Service Cloud, SAP Emarsys, SAP Customer Data Capture).
- Experience with creating automated API test using tools like ReadyAPI or Postman.
- Leadership skills to coach and mentor junior members of the team to enable progressive career development and an incredible employee experience.
- Has built and scaled delivery teams from 0 to N consisting of a mix of dev, qa technical product management and business systems analysts.
- Understands how inclusion & diversity is important to the success for any delivery team.
- Highly data driven β know how to infer metrics about the health & performance of a team and optimize around them.
- A commitment to learn and apply Aritzia's Business and People Leadership principles
THE COMPENSATION
The typical hiring range for this position is $120,000-$170,000 CAD per year. The final agreed upon salary may vary based on factors such as job-related knowledge, skills and experience. Additionally, this position may be eligible for bonus.
We are always looking for top talent. If your qualifications differ from those listed above, the scope of work and final agreed upon salary may be adjusted to reflect your individual qualifications.
Aritziaβs Everyday Luxury compensation package goes beyond the base salary with endless growth and recognition opportunities through our pay-for-performance philosophy. With comprehensive benefits, aspirational workspaces and elevated employee perks and experiences β we provide it all.
THE PERKS
Some of the industry-leading benefits you will receive working at Aritzia:
- Product Discount β Maybe youβve heard of our famous product discount? Or our exclusive private shopping events? You have now.
- A-OK Commissary & Cafe β Everyday Luxury dining, exclusive to Aritzia. Our in-house bistro and cafe is a private oasis where employees can enjoy curated, subsidized Everyday Luxury dining.
- The SET β Our in-office fitness studio and gym with state-of-the-art equipment, custom-created classes and optional personal training. Open 7 days a week, it works out well.
- Aritzia Virtual Wellness β Because your health, happiness and safety matter, we provide 24/7 resources to support you in your wellbeing goals, whether theyβre physical, mental, social or financial.
- Aspirational Workplace β Our offices are specially designed to be spaces of creativity, productivity and inspiration. Theyβre also dog friendly. Woof.
- Amenities β Additional amenities include a private parentβs room, shower facilities with elevated complementary conveniences, bike rooms and more.
- The Extras β We also offer a multitude of other perks like dry-cleaning, hotel and restaurant discounts, self-care promos and on-site medical care.
ARITZIA
Aritzia is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. Our goal is to be inclusive, diverse, and representative of the communities where we work while creating an environment where every person can enjoy a successful career. This commitment applies to all candidates and employees regardless of race, ethnicity, citizenship, creed, place of origin, religion, sex, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, family status, marital status, disability, age, and any other protected characteristic.
Requests for accommodation due to a disability or any other protected characteristic can be made at any stage of the recruitment process and during employment by contacting our People & Culture Team.
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