<p>Are you an experienced <strong>Buyer, Purchasing Specialist, or Analyst</strong> looking to take the next step in your career? Our client is seeking a <strong>Category Manager</strong> to join our clients team and lead multiple product categories within a fast-paced retail environment. This role offers the opportunity to move beyond transactional buying and into strategic category ownership—driving growth, profitability, and innovation.</p><p>You’ll leverage your retail experience and analytical skills to develop category strategies, optimize assortments, and build strong vendor partnerships. If you’re ready to influence business decisions and make a measurable impact, this is the role for you.</p><p><strong><u>Responsibilities:</u></strong></p><ul><li>Transition from tactical buying to full category ownership—developing strategies and implementing plans that align with business goals.</li><li>Create and adjust product assortments and buying strategies based on customer needs and market trends.</li><li>Use your analytical expertise to review financials, manage P& L, and translate insights into actionable strategies.</li><li>Build and maintain strong supplier partnerships to optimize pricing, terms, and profitability.</li><li>Work closely with merchandising, marketing, and operations teams to ensure category success.</li><li>Partner with teams to develop proprietary products and introduce differentiated offerings.</li></ul><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p>
<p>We are looking for a highly experienced Backend / Software Architect to define and own the architecture of a next-generation, financial-grade software platform being built from the ground up. This is a hands-on, high-impact role for someone who thrives in designing complex, deterministic systems and enjoys creating original architectural blueprints rather than maintaining legacy solutions.</p><p><br></p><p>You will work closely with the founder and product leadership to shape the technical vision, make foundational technology decisions, and build systems that are scalable, auditable, and production-ready from day one. Fully remote contract role.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Key Responsibilities</strong></p><p><br></p><p>Define, own, and evolve the overall system architecture for a greenfield platform</p><p>Select, evaluate, and lock in the technology stack and architectural patterns</p><p>Design deterministic, calculation-heavy, financial-grade systems with auditability and correctness as first-class concerns</p><p>Establish architectural standards, invariants, non-goals, and clearly defined failure modes</p><p>Partner closely with the founder and product team to translate product vision into technical design and execution</p><p>Provide architectural guidance across implementation, ensuring scalability, performance, reliability, and maintainability</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><strong>Required Qualifications</strong></p><p><br></p><p>10+ years of backend engineering experience, with 3+ years in an architecture or principal-level role</p><p>Strong proficiency in .NET / C# (required); experience with other strongly typed languages is a plus</p><p>Deep experience with ASP.NET Core, Entity Framework Core, and distributed .NET architectures</p><p>Strong relational database expertise with SQL Server / Azure SQL or PostgreSQL, including data modeling and transaction management</p><p>Proven experience designing distributed systems, deterministic processing pipelines, and complex business rule engines</p><p>Strong understanding of cloud-native architecture, with Azure strongly preferred</p><p>Solid grasp of design patterns, system invariants, and scalability principles</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><strong>Nice-to-Have Experience</strong></p><p><br></p><p>Workflow engines (e.g., Temporal)</p><p>Messaging and event systems (Azure Service Bus, Kafka)</p><p>Docker and Kubernetes</p><p>Event-driven architectures or event sourcing</p><p>CI/CD pipelines and modern DevOps practices</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>*This job posting is for a current vacancy with our client.</p><p><br></p><p>*Our specialized recruiting professionals apply their expertise and utilize our proprietary AI to find you great job matches faster.</p>
