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Based in Canada, Paramount Commerce is a fintech company focused on making payments simpler and more secure. We''ve been helping reshape online payments since the early 2000s, enabling people to pay directly from their bank accounts, without relying on credit cards or e-wallets. Security, risk management, and reliability are at the core of what we do. We build payment solutions that are seamless, backed by strong safeguards and meaningful data. As we continue to grow across Canada and prepare for global expansion, were looking for curious, thoughtful people who enjoy solving complex problems and pushing ideas forward. If youre excited about building the future of payments and want to be part of a team thats shaping whats next wed love to hear from you. The Opportunity Youll lead a highperforming team responsible for the entire merchant platform. Your mission is to build the robust, scalable, and intuitive systems that define our merchant experience. This is a critical, handson leadership role where you will drive the technical strategy for how we onboard, manage, and retain our merchants. What Youll Do Technical Delivery: Own daytoday technical execution for your squad. Lead solution design, break down complex problems, and ensure the team consistently ships highquality, scalable software across the merchant platform. HandsOn Engineering: Stay active in the codebase. Youll write code, lead by example in reviews, and be the goto resource when teammates hit a tough technical problem. Technical Direction & Architecture: Drive pragmatic architecture decisions for your squads work. Youll set the technical direction, evaluate tradeoffs, and ensure the team builds things that last without overengineering. Mentorship & Team Elevation: Actively grow the engineers around you. Through pairing, code reviews, and direct feedback, youll build a team that holds a high technical bar and keeps raising it. CrossFunctional Partnership: Work closely with other Engineering Leaders and Product Managers to translate merchant needs into a wellscoped, actionable technical plan the team can execute against. Who You Are A HandsOn Technical Leader: You have 5+ years of software development experience (preferably in Java or Go) and at least 1 year in a tech lead or senior technical capacity. You still love writing code and youre good at it. A TechForward Builder: Youre comfortable across our core stack Java and Go on the backend, React on the frontend, PostgreSQL for data, and AWS or GCP in the cloud. You make pragmatic decisions and know how to build for scale and reliability. A Systems Thinker: You have a solid grasp of distributed systems, performance, and what reliability actually means in production. You design with the long term in mind, without overengineering for problems you dont have yet. A Multiplier: You make the people around you better. You give clear, candid, and kind feedback. You unblock teammates without creating dependency, and you build a culture where everyone holds a high bar. An Autonomous Driver: You dont wait to be told what to do. You identify the next problem, gather the right context, and move keeping the team focused and productive. Why Paramount Commerce? Canadian Company with over 22 years of history Competitive salary Generous vacation + summer Fridays Health & dental benefits Wellness spending account Retirement savings matching plan Remotefirst environment Quality hardware provided to do your work Parental leave topup program Birthday day off Quarterly socials Volunteer days to give back to our community Salary range: $170,000 $210,000 CAD. Paramount Commerce is an equalopportunity employer. We practice ethical and fair hiring processes and strongly encourage applications from diverse backgrounds. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process. We use technologyassisted tools, including artificial intelligence, to support parts of our recruitment process (such as resume screening, notetaking, and interview scheduling). These tools are designed to support, but never replace human judgment. All hiring decisions are made by humans, and we are committed to fair, inclusive, and biasaware hiring practices. #J-18808-Ljbffr