At Backcountry, our mission is to connect people to their passions. Our four online stores—Backcountry, Competitive Cyclist, MotoSport and, SteepandCheap—aim to supply our customers with the gear, knowledge, and inspiration necessary to get out there and chase down life’s greatest moments. We do this by providing the biggest and best assortment of premium outdoor products, superior shopping experience, personalized Gearhead expertise, lightning-fast and accurate fulfillment, and inspirational, informative, and community-centered content.
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. As a Principal Engineer, 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 role is challenging – above and beyond the day-to-day responsibilities, you’ll have a big role within a fast-paced team.
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 field
- 10 plus years of professional software development experience with strong ecommerce background
- Hands on experience leveraging best in class AI toolsets for productivity and development acceleration
- Expertise with Java Spring Framework Spring Boot and NodeJs
- Strong front end experience with HTML CSS JavaScript and React
- Deep expertise in software architecture distributed systems and design patterns
- Proficiency in at least one core backend language such as Java Python or C Sharp
- Proven history of leading engineering teams and delivering production grade software
- Strong understanding of relational databases and SQL
- Experience with NoSQL or document oriented databases
- Hands on skill with Docker Kubernetes CI CD pipelines
- Experience with AWS or GCP and cloud first architecture
- Excellent communication, leadership, and cross functional collaboration skills
- Strong problem solving talent and the ability to think creatively and strategically
What'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 offer
- Executive 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.
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.
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