Senior Algorithm Developer – Production Scheduling (Saas Supply Chain Platform)

About Kinaxis

Are you looking to join an innovative, market-leading company where you can truly elevate your career? At Kinaxis we are serious about culture, we are serious about technology, we are serious about customers, and we are serious about not taking ourselves too seriously. If you are looking to be part of an incredible growth story, then we might just be the place for you!

In 1984, we started out as a team of three engineers. Today, we have grown to become a global organization with over 2000 employees around the world, 6 global office and a best-in-class HQ in Ottawa, Canada. As winners of several Top Employer awards globally, we are proud to work with our customers and employees towards solving some of the biggest challenges facing supply chains today.

Kinaxis is a global leader in modern supply chain orchestration, powering complex global supply chains, and supporting the people who manage them. Our powerful, AI infused platform provides full transparency and visibility across end-to-end supply chains, enabling our customers to make faster, better decisions. We are trusted by renowned global brands to provide the agility and predictability needed to navigate today’s volatility and disruption. With more than 40,000 users in over 100 countries, we are expanding our team as we continue to innovate and revolutionize how we support our customers.

Location

Ottawa and Toronto, Canada - Hybrid

Other Canadian locations - Remote

About the team

Production Scheduling is the process of arranging, controlling, and optimizing work and workloads in a

manufacturing environment.

Kinaxis Enterprise Scheduling

unifies production planning and detailed scheduling on

a single, concurrent platform—allowing planners and schedulers to immediately understand the impact of demand

and supply changes, from long-term plans down to the shop floor schedule.

The Enterprise Scheduling team builds and scales an

enterprise-grade scheduling application

with the flexibility of

a site-level scheduler. We focus on developing

fast, scalable algorithms

, applying

heuristic and optimization

techniques where they deliver the most value

, and ensuring our solutions are configurable, extensible, and

production-ready. Our challenges are complex, our data is large, and our customers rely on us to deliver

correctness, performance, and explainability at scale.

Salary Range

 Annual cash compensation ranges from $102,000 to $150,000, plus a discretionary 10% company bonus. The final offer within this range will reflect the successful candidate’s skills and experience.

Vacancy Status

This is an existing job vacancy

What you will do

• As a Senior Algorithm Developer, you will contribute across the

  full lifecycle of algorithm backed product

  development

  , working at the intersection of real-world scheduling problems and enterprise software delivery.

  You will

• Design, implement, and test

  production scheduling models, constraints, heuristics, and meta heuristics

• Translate

  real-world manufacturing and scheduling constraints

  into robust computational and

  mathematical models

• Investigate and apply

  advanced scheduling techniques

  , including targeted use of AI/ML where

  appropriate

• Lead or contribute to the

  design, implementation, and evolution

  of core scheduling logic in a

  commercial, enterprise-grade product

• Define and contribute to

  test strategies

  , including unit, integration, regression, and performance testing,

  to ensure correctness and scalability

• Collaborate closely with agile team members across engineering, product, QA, and support throughout

  design, implementation, and delivery

• Participate actively in

  design discussions, code reviews, and scrum rituals

  , helping maintain a high bar for

  quality and maintainability

• Support product stability by

  triaging defects, explaining product behaviour

  , suggesting workarounds, and

  fixing and validating moderate issues

• Identify opportunities to

  improve and accelerate the SDLC

  through better tooling, automation, or AI-

  assisted workflows, while maintaining architectural consistency, secure design, and code quality

• Review

  AI-generated code

  with rigor, ensuring correctness, architectural fit, integration safety, and

  edge-case coverage

What we are looking for

• Deep knowledge of

  production scheduling algorithms

  , optimization techniques, and/or heuristics

• Strong software engineering skills with experience delivering

  enterprise-grade commercial software

• 5+ years of algorithm development experience in a production environment

• Proficiency in

  Java, C++, C#, or similar object-oriented languages

  , including unit testing and design

  patterns

• Experience translating

  real-world planning or scheduling problems

  into computational or mathematical

  models

• A passion for

  algorithms, data structures, and problem solving

  , with a desire to see solutions used in the

  real world

• Ability to design and contribute to

  automated testing

  for functional correctness and performance

• Comfort working across the

  full SDLC

  , from design through delivery and ongoing support

• Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain complex behaviour clearly to both technical and

  non-technical stakeholders

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in

  Industrial Engineering, Operations Research, Computer Science

  , or a

  related field

Nice to Have

• Background or understanding of

  supply chain management or manufacturing domains

• Exposure to automation and infrastructure that supports reliable development, testing, performance

  validation, and production support

• Familiarity with

  commercial solvers

  (e.g., Gurobi, CPLEX, Xpress)

• Exposure to

  machine learning or AI techniques

  applied in optimization or planning contexts