LOCATION: Our office is located in Vancouver, BC. Candidates must reside in the Vancouver area and will be required to be in-office.

A job at RAZR is like no other. We are on a mission to Be Relevant - make a meaningful difference in the lives of others. This talented team lives out our values every day. These values have made RAZR what it is for years, and today, they are more critical than ever. They keep us connected. They make us a team. They allow us to thrive.

The RAZR Core Values You Live

Be Intentional

• You take action and pursue the ultimate best outcome for RAZR and our clients

• You dig in and understand the details of how the business works

• You run towards, and you don't run away

• You understand that “whatever it takes” is just that

• You have a plan, and you execute it even when you don't feel like it

Embrace the Attitude of How

• You understand that problems are simply opportunities to solve them

• You view commitments as promises to be kept...regardless

• You can't stand not knowing; you have an unquenchable thirst to understand why

• You are an active participant, never a spectator

• You are focused on outcomes and not the time it takes to achieve them

Enjoy the Ride

• You are grateful for both life's challenges and opportunities

• You passionately pursue excellence in everything you do

• You laugh often and don't take yourself too seriously

• You love change, and living in the gray is energizing to you

• You can't wait to get out of bed in the morning & get on with your day

OverviewRAZR is seeking a Sr Software Developer/Architect to be part of our Information Technology team enhancing our core offering of loyalty and referral marketing products.
A successful candidate for this role will have a solid foundation of software design and development fundamentals and will be a strong, responsive problem solver with the creativity to come up with innovative solutions to varying types of technical problems.
Must be a self-starter and technical mentor that excels in a fast-paced, quickly changing environment as well as working in cross-functional teams to collaborate and deliver solutions.
Architects at RMI drive the long-term technical direction of our platform. They ensure that key solutions adhere to established architecture standards and are accountable for delivering scalable, maintainable, and cloud-resilient systems. This particular role balances two major areas of responsibility:

• AWS Cloud Architecture & Infrastructure Design
• High-performance Java Backend & Real-Time Streaming Systems

Key Responsibilities AWS Cloud Architecture

• Define and evolve cloud-native architecture on AWS to support scalable, distributed systems
• Create and maintain extensible infrastructure-as-code (IaC) libraries and templates
• Select and implement AWS services that support fault-tolerant and cost-effective compute, messaging, storage, and security layers
• Establish and promote architectural standards for multi-account setups, IAM policies, and VPC/networking best practices
• Ensure that architecture decisions align with reliability, performance, and compliance requirements

Java + Streaming Engineering

• Lead development of Java-based back-end services, APIs, and batch jobs
• Design and implement event-driven systems using Apache Kafka and its ecosystem (Kafka Streams, Kafka Connect, ksqlDB, Apache Flink)
• Build and optimize batch processing frameworks for data-intensive workloads (e.g., with Spring Batch or custom schedulers)
• Drive efforts to decompose monolithic systems into stream-based microservices
• Ensure backend systems are robust, testable, and observable
• Collaborate with product managers and other engineers to ensure data-intensive features meet business and performance needs

Core Competencies & Attributes

• Systems thinker with experience balancing cloud architecture and application design
• Deep understanding of both infrastructure scalability and application-level performance
• Skilled communicator able to lead technical discussions across DevOps, Engineering, Product, and Security
• Bias toward automation, reproducibility, and simplification
• Pragmatic decision-maker who can weigh short-term delivery needs against long-term maintainability
• Passionate about mentoring and enabling others through high-quality standards, patterns, and tooling

Required Core Experience

• 10+ years software engineering experience, with strong focus on Java
• Significant experience designing for AWS, with hands-on use of services like EC2, ECS/Fargate, Lambda, S3, RDS, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch
• Streaming systems experience, including Kafka, Kafka Streams, or equivalent pub/sub platforms
• Proven experience with Java batch processing frameworks (e.g., Spring Batch)
• Strong command of distributed system design, API architecture, and data modeling
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools and modern DevOps practices

Bonus Qualifications

• Infrastructure-as-code experience (Pulumi, Terraform, CDK, or CloudFormation)
• Experience with data pipeline orchestration (e.g., Conduktor)
• Experience modernizing monolithic applications to cloud-native, event-driven architectures
• Observability expertise
• Knowledge of security best practices in cloud-native environments

Who We Are

• Tech Stack: Java, Spring Boot, Apache Kafka, Angular, Postgres, Docker, AWS
• Architecture: Microservices & event-driven systems, with a focus on streaming, observability, and decoupling
• Development Process: Agile Scrum, Git-based collaboration via pull requests, CI/CD pipelines
• Culture: Delivery-focused, inclusive, and driven by pragmatic tec

About Us

RAZR is a fast-growing marketing technology company headquartered in the Twin Cities, and we count some of the world's most recognized brands among our clients. Working across various industries, including healthcare, medical technology, financial services, and retail, we help our clients acquire, retain, and grow consumers by leveraging our proprietary technology platform, Fibonacci™. The RAZR approach is rooted in behavioral science and combines strategy with visual design to create sustainable behavior change within consumer audiences.

With our Clients, Colleagues, and in our Communities, we live our Mission - Be Relevant – “Make a meaningful difference in the lives of others.” At the foundation of our Culture, you'll find the Core Values of “Be Intentional”, “Embrace the Attitude of How”, and “Enjoy the Ride”, this is a mindset and a commitment to how we show up every day. The RAZR team is driven to pursue the ultimate best outcome for our key constituents. There are no jobs here, just opportunities to serve and make a material impact in the world.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, and our employees have unique strengths, experiences, and backgrounds who share a passion for improving people's lives.

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