Senior Algorithm Developer –Supply Chain Production Scheduling

Kinaxis Inc.; Ottawa, Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 141,000 - 208,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible vacation

Flexible work options

Well-being programs

Virtual fitness classes

Mentorship & career development

Recognition programs

Hackathons

Job summary

Kinaxis Inc. is seeking a Senior Algorithm Developer to advance production scheduling models within a leading supply chain platform. You will work across design, implementation, and validation, ensuring scalable, correct scheduling solutions for complex manufacturing environments.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, apply advanced optimization techniques, and contribute to automated test strategies to ensure product quality and performance.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of algorithm development experience in a production environment.
• Proficiency in Java, C++, C#, or similar OO languages.
• Experience translating real-world planning or scheduling problems into models.
• Ability to design automated tests for correctness and performance.
• Strong communication skills to explain complex behaviour to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and test production scheduling models and heuristics.
• Translate real-world constraints into robust computational models.
• Investigate advanced scheduling techniques including AI/ML where appropriate.
• Lead or contribute to core scheduling logic in an enterprise product.
• Define and execute test strategies for unit, integration, and performance testing.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, QA, and support across the SDLC.
• Triaging defects and assisting with fix validation to maintain stability.
• Suggest tooling or AI-assisted workflows to improve development cycles.

Skills

Algorithm development

Production scheduling

Software engineering

Java/C++/C#

Mathematical modeling

Automated testing

SDLC

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree

Job description

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

Work With Impact:

Our platform directly helps companies power the world’s supply chains. We see the results of what we do out in the world every day, when we see store shelves stocked, when medications are available for our loved ones, and so much more.

Work with Fortune 500 Brands:

Companies across industries trust us to help them take control of their integrated business planning and digital supply chain. Some of our customers include Lockheed Martin, Unilever, P&G, ExxonMobil, Cisco and more.

Social Responsibility at Kinaxis:

Our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee weighs in on hiring practices, talent assessment training materials, and mandatory training on unconscious bias and inclusion fundamentals. Sustainability is key to what we do and we’re committed to a long‑term net‑zero operations strategy. We are involved in our communities and support causes where we can make the most impact.

People matter at Kinaxis and here are some of the perks and benefits we offer, which may vary by location and employee:

• Flexible vacation and Kinaxis Days (company‑wide days off)
• Flexible work options
• Physical and mental well‑being programs
• Regularly scheduled virtual fitness classes
• Mentorship programs, training, and career development
• Recognition programs and referral rewards
• Hackathons

For more information, visit the Kinaxis website at www.kinaxis.com or the company’s blog at http://blog.kinaxis.com.

Kinaxis is committed to ensuring a fair and transparent recruitment process. We use artificial intelligence (AI) tools in the initial step of the recruitment process to compare submitted resumes against the job description to identify candidates whose education, experience, and skills most closely match the requirements of the role. After the initial screening, all subsequent decisions regarding your application, including final selection, are made by our human recruitment team. AI does not make any final hiring decisions.