Software Architect

Overview:

Position: Software Architect

Salary:  $140 - $160K/yr d.o.e.

Location: Remote OK - If living within 31 miles of Tustin, CA or Austin, TX will need to be able to work a hybrid schedule

Position Summary:

As a Software Architect, you will play a crucial role in shaping the technology landscape of our organization. Through your experience, you will help drive the technical vision for our in-house products and systems. As an Architect, you will guide the software development for our teams through best practices, design patterns, your knowledge and tooling.  Your skill as an effective communicator and mentor will help create a generative and productive culture.

• Work closely with engineering and product teams and foster relationships with leaders to become a champion of our architectural strategy.
• Help define the long-term architectural vision for our organization to build resilient and performant systems for our customers.
• Provide technical guidance and supervision to our teams. Ensure they follow best practices through training, examples, documentation, by conducting code reviews and engaging during team planning meetings.
• Document new and existing systems to add to our knowledge base.
• Build solutions to effectively address the challenges faced by other teams within the organization.
• Work with vendors to evaluate software and solve integration challenges.
• Stay up to date with developing technologies and provide recommendations to the organization. Introduce new tools and methodologies to improve teams and products.
• Work with our DevOps engineers to build robust observability standards.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or work-related equivalent.
• 5+ years of PHP (Laravel, CodeIgniter) software development experience.
• 5+ years’ experience with database technologies such as MySQL, MariaDB, MySQL Aurora experience
• 5+ years’ front-end experience with Vue and React.
• 3+ years’ production experience with Kubernetes, Helm, AKS/EKS.
• Experience with AWS products: S3, EKS,
• Proven work experience in an architect or similar role.
• 5+ years of experience contributing to the architecture of new and current systems.
• Experience writing documentation and creating UML, architectural and data flow diagrams.
• Experience building integrations with vendors, and in-house APIs.
• Knowledge in performance, scalability, enterprise system architecture, and engineering best practices.
• Knowledge in latest architectural patterns to build resilient micro-services.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills working across multiple geographies.

Desired Skills:

• Proficiency with Nuxt and/or Next.js, .NET Core, (C#).
• Proficiency in Azure Cloud including App Services, Functions, Service Bus, Monitoring, Cosmos DB, Blob Storage, Event Grid, ElasticSearch, SQL Server.
• Mobile development experience with Swift and Kotlin.
• Experience optimizing applications or systems to maximize performance at scale.
• Working knowledge of Banking, Financial Services or FinTech.
• A deep understanding of cross functional teams.
• Experience in production deployments and resolving production issues.

Work Authorization: Must be able to verify identity and employment eligibility to work in the U.S.

Other Duties: This job profile is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of job duties and responsibilities, as one may perform additional related duties as assigned in order to meet the needs of the organization.

Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Must be able to lift up to ten pounds. Primary functions require sufficient physical ability and mobility to work in an office setting; to stand or sit for prolonged periods of time; to occasionally stoop, bend, kneel, crouch, reach, and twist; to lift, carry, push, and/or pull light to moderate amounts of weight; to operate office equipment requiring repetitive hand movement and fine coordination including use of a keyboard; and to verbally communicate to exchange information. VISION: See in the normal visual range with or without correction. HEARING: Hear in the normal audio range with or without correction.

[EOE/M/F/D/V. Drug-free workplace.]

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