Job Description

OVERVIEW:
A force for change and a leader. You know that companies need help to achieve the business outcomes they seek, and you have the skills and leadership to deliver it. You love delivering fresh solutions to customers and are passionate about setting a strong example to your team. You also enjoy mentoring and building out technical and professional skills within your team.
You’ve got the skills, tools and know-how to help companies make the moves to be more nimble, more capable, more productive and more data driven. You also know that customers need a strong software partner to help them drive key business value and decisions using our suite of software. Do you want to be part of a strong team that delivers Enterprise SaaS solution for the world’s leading fresh food retailers? If so, then Invafresh is the perfect place to for you to apply your skills to help our customers drive business value from our fresh food retail operations solutions.
WHO WE ARE:
Based in Mississauga, Canada, and deployed globally, Invafresh is a leading technology company specializing in FreshologyTM software solutions for supermarket & boutique fresh food grocers around the world. In business since 1988, Invafresh continues to invest in its people and technology. Today, Invafresh is an organization of experienced and retail-savvy Freshologists TM equipped with industry specific solutions that supermarket chains can leverage to succeed in the field of fresh operations.
Our fresh food retail operations solutions are deployed collectively in over 25,000 grocery stores worldwide, actively supporting the in-store execution of fresh operations. We enable our customers to achieve and maintain a leadership position in their fresh food offering by providing data integrity and decision support tools needed to enhance sales, reduce shrink and inventories, and improve overall margins while positively impacting the planet by reducing food waste throughout the supply chain of fresh food retail. We help our customers achieve success in the highly competitive grocery market.
Our mission is clear. Build long-lasting partnerships with grocery retailers and enable them to achieve Operational Excellence in Fresh. To us, this represents putting all our energy into helping our customers maximize financial performance so they can achieve top quartile operating metrics. The ultimate goal is to deliver a fresh offering that exceeds the expectations of the consumer.
THE ROLE:
This is a permanent full-time position reporting to our Director, Software Development.
WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING:

• Support collaboration between development and other departments. Work with internal and external team
  members and management to identify and understand business requirements and translate them to functional and technical specifications and provide technical solutions ranging from design through to code level.
• Lead in the architecture, design, specification, development and implementation of cloud-native SaaS software solutions and legacy on-premise applications.
• Design in large-scale or complex programs, including system and application designs, data architecture, software and technical architecture, in accordance with strategies and objectives.
• Lead design and produce architectural/development documentation, diagrams, charts and code.
• Providing expertise for the team and other IT staff on a variety of issues in software designs, system architecture and solution-oriented technologies.
• Conduct technical workshops, present technical solutions/use cases and perform training, demonstrations and consulting services with products in collaboration with solutions.
• Overseeing project outcomes, including hardware and software design ensuring that each project phase meets overall requirements.
• Designs technical solutions using standard approaches, considering the customer’s infrastructure limitations and opportunities; analyzes interprets, and presents assessment results; operates comfortably beyond standard approaches to satisfy the needs of all the stakeholders.
• Design, code, and develop innovative customer-facing features and back-end applications from concept to production.
• Continuously focus on proposed and implemented solutions, ensuring that blockers and technical obstacles are quickly identified and mitigated.
• Define and publish solution contextual, conceptual, logical and physical architecture models.
• Mentor other developers. Help developers resolve technical obstacles to prevent jeopardizing sprint commitments.

• You are Subject Matter Expert (SME) with Object-Oriented Programming (OOP/OOD), functional programming,N-Tier architectures, Microservice and Cloud environments (Azure).
• You are Subject Matter Expert (SME) for the solution to be delivered from a technical requirements perspective, including but not limited to: Application and system design, Data mapping and interpretation, API and flat-file data integrations to and from application platforms, Application deployment and adoption strategies
• Excellent written and verbal communication and listening skills.
• Excellent business comprehension skills.
• Excellent organizational, troubleshooting, problem determination & resolution and analytical skills.
• Strong team player and individual contributor with the ability to build relationships across the organization.
• Process oriented in change and problem management disciplines and can work in a fast-paced environment with the ability to execute tasks with limited supervision
• You are very Customer, service and results oriented. You have a desire to lead, be accountable and take the initiative.

• Bachelor or Masters degree(s) in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience in Technical, Solutions and Enterprise Architect, designing N-Tier and Microservice architecture.
• 10+ years of proven hands-on experience with the architecture, design, development, deployment and support of software projects.
• Experience with programming languages and frameworks such as C++, JavaScript, HTML, ASP.NET, ReactJS, PHP, CSS/Bootstrap, and GO.
• Experience in an industry focused on solution selling, large enterprise software deployments and ongoing account engagement.
• 10+ years of professional experience in full software development life cycle and developing Web-based and Client/Server applications. Experience developing applications for the Cloud (Azure).
• Experience in agile development methodologies and with development operations tools, including JIRA and GitLab.
• Experience with MS SQL, ODBC and integrating with APIs.• Experience with Single sign-on technologies such as ONE ID, Azure Active Directory, JWT, OpenID Connect, OAuth
• Knowledge of Linux-based and Windows operating systems, command-line programming, and basic scripting (PowerShell and bash).
• Understanding Test Driven Development (TDD) and the need to produce first-class software.
• Experience with Best practices and industry standards relating to privacy and security

• Competitive compensation and flex hours and location
• We take great pride in our first-class team and culture. Open-door approach at all levels.
• Entrepreneurial and rapid growth company with essentially zero employee turnover
• The premium and most progressive product on the market. Focus on continuous innovation.
• Work hard/Play hard mentality; we thrive on change and continuously strive for excellence.
• Real-time coaching and feedback, growth opportunities, and a supportive and collaborative team