About the roleAt Backcountry, our mission is to connect people to their passions. Backcountry is searching for a passionate Principal Software Engineer to join our engineering organization and drive the evolution of our outdoor retail ecommerce platform. This is a high impact leadership role for someone who thrives in complex systems, loves solving meaningful technical challenges, and wants to shape the future of our technology landscape. You will guide architecture, deliver high quality solutions, mentor engineering teams, and influence strategy across multiple product areas. You will help us scale, modernize, and innovate while ensuring our platform delivers a fast, seamless, and reliable experience for customers. This position will report into the Director of Engineering.What you will do:Lead end to end software delivery lifecycle. Drive architecture design, hands on development, testing, deployment, documentation, and production support for our ecommerce platform.Spearhead AI technical innovation, design AI/agentic workflows that empower engineering teams. Leverage best in class AI toolsets to improve engineering delivery throughput, quality, and reliability. Lead from the front to showcase transformational AI capabilities to other developers/teams and raise the bar for AI use within the organization.Serve as a technical mentor and coach for engineers across levels supporting code reviews, technical decisions and skill development.Partner with Product Design and Engineering leadership to deliver scalable user focused features that elevate business value.Champion modern engineering practices including clean architecture, unit testing, automation, performance optimization, and observability.Drive key initiatives as a technical leader occasionally guiding a small team of engineers from concept to delivery.Influence architectural direction and propose improvements that enhance system performance, scalability, reliability, and maintainability.Produce high quality documentation including TRDs, diagrams, technical instructions, and onboarding materials.Own reliability monitoring alerting and incident response for mission critical systems.Stay current with new technologies and contribute to innovation and continuous improvement across the engineering organization.Identify opportunities to simplify legacy components, reduce technical debt, and deliver long term efficiency gains.What you bring:Bachelor degree or Master degree in Computer Science or related field10 plus years of professional software development experience with strong ecommerce backgroundHands on experience leveraging best in class AI toolsets for productivity and development accelerationExpertise with Java Spring Framework, Spring Boot and NodeJsStrong front end experience with HTML, CSS, JavaScript and ReactDeep expertise in software architecture, distributed systems and design patternsProficiency in at least one core backend language such as Java, Python or C SharpProven history of leading engineering teams and delivering production grade softwareStrong understanding of relational databases and SQLExperience with NoSQL or document oriented databasesHands on skill with Docker, Kubernetes CI/CD pipelinesExperience with AWS or GCP and cloud first architectureExcellent communication, leadership, and cross functional collaboration skillsStrong problem solving talent and the ability to think creatively and strategicallyWhat's in it for you:Joining CSC Generation is not just about having a seat at the table. It is about helping redesign the table entirely. You will be challenged, stretched, and supported as you grow faster than you thought possible. In addition to competitive compensation we offerExecutive Access: Work directly with brand CEOs and senior leadership, solving real business problems and earning mentorship from top operators.AI-First Skill Building: Get hands-on with the most advanced AI tools in the market. Drive complex agentic workflow and toolset development that brings real value to our engineering department as well as our customers.Accelerated Career Path: High performers are quickly entrusted with greater responsibility, new challenges, and leadership opportunities across our portfolio of brands.Competitive benefits: Paid time off policies, 401(k)/RRSP match, medical/dental/vision and a variety of supplemental policies, and employee discounts at our portfolio companies.Our interview process:📞 Step 1: If you align with our vision and meet the qualifications, we’ll reach out to schedule a conversation and introduce CSC.🧠 Step 2: You’ll complete a short AI or product-building challenge so we can understand how you approach problems and execution.💬 Step 3: Participate in deep-dive interviews with CSC leadership focused on your experience, product mindset, and operational thinking.📩 Step 4: Offer. We’ll move fast for the right candidate.
