Senior Principal Architect - Web Engine

Huawei Technologies Canada Co., Ltd.; Markham; On-site; CAD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Huawei Canada is seeking a Senior Principal Architect to lead the web, windowing, and graphics team. This role involves exploring innovative architectures for web rendering technologies and collaborating with engineering teams to develop effective solutions. The ideal candidate should have extensive experience in web technologies and lead development teams effectively.

Qualifications

• Expertise in web engine/core and front-end framework architecture.
• Experience with popular web technologies: WASM, WebXR.
• Software production experience in consumer electronics is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead team to research and implement technologies for web rendering.
• Identify key tech trends and produce proofs of concept (PoCs).
• Collaborate with engineering teams for production readiness.

Skills

Leadership skills

Good communications and presentation skills

Web performance

Web standards

Web technologies

Tools

Angular

React

Vue

Blink/V8/Webkit

Job description

Huawei Canada has an immediate permanent opening for a Senior Principal Architect.

About the team:The web, Windowing and Graphics team is exploring novel architectures to accelerate the rendering of ArkUI and web platform content. Areas of study include customizing GPU drivers for the needs of web rendering, simplifying the Chrome rendering architecture assuming only TBDR GPU targets, concurrent web layout and taking advantage of the vertical integration possibilities afforded by Huawei’s HarmonyOS.

About the job:

• Insight the web engine and web app framework tech trend.

• Identify the key technologies, and lead team to research and implement PoCs.

• Lead Canada research team to collaborate with the engineering team for production.

About the ideal candidate:

• Good communications and presentation skills.

• Leadership skills to build coherence in software development teams.

• Leadership skills to create and communicate architecture vision and targets.

• Deep and wide technologies in Web area, especially for web engine/core, front end framework architecture, Web performance, Web standards,etc.

• Experienced in development of one of popular web engines, e.g. Blink/V8/Webkit, etc.

• Experienced in the new Web technologies, like WASM, WebXR, etc.

• Experienced in architecture of framework, like Angular, React, Vue, etc.

• Software production experience in CE device is an asset.

• Good knowledge of Android or iOS is an asset.

#LI-LC1