Staff Software Engineer

About Us

Ritchie Bros. (NYSE and TSX: RBA) is a global asset management and disposition company, offering customers end-to-end solutions for buying and selling used heavy equipment, trucks and other assets in numerous industries including construction, transportation, agriculture, energy, oil and gas, mining, and forestry. Our mission is to create compelling business solutions for the world's builders to easily and confidently exchange equipment. Learn more about us at: https://www.ritchiebros.com/

About The Team

Our Technology teams work collaboratively from different locations across the world on multiple eCommerce sites, mobile applications, and automated online auctions. We encourage and celebrate technical innovation and work with some of the industry’s leading technologies and tools.

Every day your work will make a difference in the way we run our business and the in the way customers interact with us.

Job Description

The Staff, Software Engineer is responsible for leading the team that supports and enhances the code base used for company’s administrative and reporting tools. Responsible for all development practices for the web and services (integration) platform. Lead the implementation of the full stack web experience. Work closely with UX/UI department in leading the technical vision for our products. Collaborate with designers, product managers, and developers to deliver compelling and efficient tools/products. Identify and resolve performance and scalability issues. Lead, coach and train a team of full stack developers.

Responsibilities

Design/Manage implementation of overall product and service integration architecture

Take ownership for quality of code written and solutions architected to ensure products can be sustainably operated and evolved

Prioritize/Manage development effort required in order to fulfill product feature requests in a timely manner

Define/Design architecture/solutions, working with enterprise architects and the Manager, Software Engineering in order to create scalable/robust web applications

Create technical specifications and test plans

Consistently write, translate, and code automation scripts to test, maintain, and monitor solutions. Work with the DevOps to transition software into a production environment

Perform other duties as assigned

Qualifications

Minimum of 7 years of enterprise web development experience, 2 years’ experience leading teams of software developers

Strong understanding of enterprise technology stack

Demonstrated ability to apply technology solutions to business problems

Strong experience with Kubernetes and container deployment patterns solutions

A deep focus on CI/CD and the ability to drive automated pipeline solutions

Ability to articulate and explain technical solutions to stakeholders