Software Architect

What Your Responsibilities Will Be

• Architectural Leadership: Define and lead the software architecture strategy, ensuring understanding of our goals and technology vision.
• System Design: Lead the design of complex software systems, ensuring scalability, security, and maintainability. Develop high-level product specifications and design documents.
• Technical Guidance: Provide expert guidance to software engineering teams on architectural best practices, design patterns, and coding standards. Mentor and support developers in implementing best practices.
• Collaboration: Work with product managers, UX designers, DevOps, and other team members to ensure that goals and user needs.
• Technology Evaluation: Stay up to date with latest technologies and trends. Recommend tools, frameworks, and platforms to enhance the development process and product quality.
• Code Reviews: Conduct code and design reviews to ensure adherence to architectural best practices.
• Performance Optimization: Identify performance bottlenecks in the software architecture and lead efforts to optimize system performance, scalability, and reliability
• Documentation: Create architectural documentation, including system diagrams, technical specifications, and design patterns.
• Risk Management: Identify potential technical risks in projects and propose solutions to avoid them.
• Innovation: Foster a culture of innovation within the engineering team, encouraging the exploration of new ideas and approaches.
• Project Involvement: Participate in project planning, estimation, and review processes, ensuring that architectural considerations are integrated into the project plan.
• Compliance and Security: Ensure that the software architecture complies with relevant security standards, regulations, and best practices.
• Architect AI-assisted solutions within product areas (e.g., auto-remediation, predictive analytics).
• Set AI coding and security standards within teams.
• Mentor junior engineers on effective AI tooling use.
• Reporting to the Director of Software Engineering and VP.

What You’ll Need To Be Successful

• You have a Bachelor / Master's degree in computer science or equivalent.
• You have 15+ years of full-stack experience in software development roles, shipping applications to large-scale production environments.
• You are an expert in C# or Java programming language.
• You have knowledge of architectural styles and design patterns.
• You have experience in building, and deploying (CI/CD) scalable distributed systems and frameworks for small businesses and enterprises.
• You have experience working on AWS Cloud and DevOps (Terraform, Docker, ECS).
• You've been part of an Agile team with hands-on experience with TDD and BDD.
• You have experience converting monoliths to microservices or serverless architecture.
• TOGAF, AWS Solutions Architect, or similar certifications.
• Knowledge of Enterprise Integration Patterns.
• Fluent English is a requirement for this role, therefore only resumes in English will be considered.