Staff Software Developer 

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• Développeur/développeuse de logiciels principal(e)

About AppDirect

Become a digital, global citizen and enable the next generation of digital entrepreneurs around the world. AppDirect offers a subscription commerce platform that empowers businesses to sell any product, through any channel, on any device. We power millions of subscriptions worldwide and do so through a values-driven culture—one that enables you to Be Seen, Be Yourself, and Do Your Best Work.

This role is for the Firstbase team who are dedicated to building our platform that enables companies to seamlessly procure, deploy, manage, and retrieve equipment for distributed employees. As we integrate Firstbase into the broader AppDirect ecosystem, we are driven by two parallel goals: preserve the exceptional experience customers love, and elevate the platform through scale, reliability, performance, and automation. As a Staff Developer, you will directly influence this transition.

About you

We are looking for a Staff Software Developer to help lead AppDirect’s Firstbase engineering team through its next stage of scale and integration. This is a highly impactful, strategic role responsible for designing and evolving the technical foundation of our onboarding/offboarding, logistics, and procurement systems used by Advisors, Resellers, and end customers around the world.

As Firstbase enters its next chapter within AppDirect, you will shape core architecture, guide cross-team technical execution, and set engineering standards that raise the bar across the org. You will drive the modernization of legacy systems, build next-generation APIs and services, and partner with engineering and product leadership to steer the product roadmap.

What You’ll Do & How You’ll Make an Impact

• Technical Leadership & Architecture

• Own the architecture and evolution of critical microservices and shared components across Firstbase and AppDirect.

• Make high-impact technical decisions involving service boundaries, data models, messaging patterns, and long-term platform scalability.

• Drive modernization and decomposition of legacy systems, establishing migration strategies and engineering best practices.

• Systems Design & Implementation

• Build robust, scalable REST and GraphQL APIs using Java and modern frameworks.

• Lead the design and implementation of high-reliability messaging systems using Kafka.

• Model and optimize relational and document-oriented data storage across MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB.

• Ensure high standards in code quality through automated testing and CI/CD best practices.

• Cross-Team Influence

• Partner closely with Product, Operations, QA, Technical Consultants, and Support to align technical decisions with business strategy.

• Act as a force-multiplier by mentoring developers across multiple teams, elevating design quality, system reliability, and operational excellence.

• Proactively identify cross-platform integration opportunities and lead initiatives to align Firstbase capabilities with AppDirect’s core marketplace platform.

• Execution & Delivery

• Provide technical leadership within Agile teams—guiding planning, design reviews, and sprint execution.

• Investigate, diagnose, and resolve complex production issues spanning multiple services and components.

• Champion operational excellence, including observability, performance tuning, fault tolerance, and resilience engineering.

What We’re Looking For

• B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or a related field (or equivalent experience).

• 10+ years of professional software development experience, with significant experience owning complex systems end-to-end.

• Deep expertise in Java, with strong knowledge of Spring (Boot, Data, Cloud) and Hibernate.

• Strong hands-on experience with Node.js and React in production systems.

• Proven experience designing and scaling microservice architectures, including REST APIs, event-driven systems, and distributed systems patterns.

• Proficiency in automated testing frameworks (JUnit) and quality-driven development practices.

• Hands-on experience with relational and NoSQL databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB).

• Experience building or scaling messaging solutions using Kafka.

• Solid understanding of containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).

At AppDirect, we believe that innovation thrives in an environment that houses diversity of excellence, experience and thought. We respect each AppDirector as their own fingerprint; unique with no one alike. We foster an environment of inclusion without regard to race, religion, age, sexual orientation, or gender identity enabling AppDirectors to embrace their uniqueness to do their best work. As such, we strongly encourage applications from Indigenous peoples, racialized people, people with disabilities, people from gender and sexually diverse communities, and/or people with intersectional identities.

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