Backend Architect at Simpplr

About Simpplr

Simpplr is an employee experience company that helps companies connect and engage employees across the enterprise. The Simpplr platform helps employees better communicate with coworkers, find information, and transfer knowledge. Simpplr was built to help businesses not only create an immersive and inspiring digital workplace but also to reinforce their unique culture. We aim to break the barriers of traditional work environments to deliver a better workplace, anywhere.

Trusted by leading brands, including DocuSign, Eurostar, and AAA, our customers are achieving measurable productivity gains, increased employee engagement and retention, and accelerated business performance.

Simpplr is headquartered in Redwood Shores, CA with offices in the UK and India, and is backed by Norwest Venture Partners and Salesforce Ventures.

The opportunity

This is a hands-on Technical role in which you’ll be responsible for architecture & design, code reviews, hands-on coding & mentoring the team you are assigned to..

What will you be doing?

• Responsible for the Architecture and High Level design of the problem statements at Simpplr.
• Ensure Software Characteristics (also known as Non Functional Requirements) laid out are met for the services/managed owned by you.
• Work with Product Managers, Testing team and Development team to understand the business requirements and come up with the Target Architecture.
• Responsible for driving Technology and Best Practices in Engineering.
• Will participate in the Architecture discussions, Design reviews and Code reviews.
• Experiment with state of the art tools and technologies, and drive adoption of the same.
• Drive Technology and Tools choices for your team.
• Implementation of long term Technology Roadmap.
• Identify improvement areas in the existing services, furnish revised design and take it to closure.

What makes you a great fit for us?

• Minimum 8+ years of experience in designing large scale applications.
• At-least one successful end to end product launch.
• Fluency with system Architecture and system interaction design skills.
• Skills to devise new approaches for complex design problems.
• Deep knowledge on Microservices and Event Driven Architecture.
• Decent visionary with interpersonal and communication skills.
• Has an eye for detail and convert ideas into a tangible form.
• Strategic thinking and passion for business processes.
• Ability to manage and deliver work in a fast paced environment.

Good to have -

• Working knowledge on AWS Public Cloud.
• Expertise in NodeJs, Typescript, Javascript, Java, PostgreSQL, MongoDB
• Experience in risk and risk control compliance.
• Technical Certification on AWS Cloud/Architecture/Design.