Software Architect

Key Responsibilities

- Define all aspects of software development, road maps, guidelines, standards and communicate to engineers, quality assurance and operation teams

- Develop high level system design with attention to system integration and microservice architecture

- Possess an understanding of cloud-native architectures, and be familiar with implementations involving service discovery, circuit breakers, client side load balancing, and other architectural patterns related to elastic infrastructure

- Partnering with engineers across the organization to leverage software engineering practices, concepts and standards in product development

- Identify emerging technologies and best practices, research and develop prototypes and promote to production

- Participate in, and help create, a company culture which attracts, retains, and coaches other engineers/architects. The primary deliverable is to build more successful engineers

Essential Skills & Prerequisites

- A positive, can-do attitude, who naturally expresses a high degree of empathy to others.

- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience. We are more interested in passion for technology and what you are capable of, than we are academic qualification

- 5 or more years of relevant work experience

- Experience in building mission critical applications from scratch, and decomposing monolithic applications into smaller services

- Good communication skills, abilities to discuss with technical and non-technical people, present ideas and motivate people

- Experience with a broad mix of technologies, including a strong subset of:
- Core Java 8,9, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, NetflixOSS

- MySQL, PostgreSQL, EnterpriseDB, NoSQL (Cassandra, MongoDB, ELK)

- Messaging or streaming middleware such as RabbitMQ or Kafka

- Cloud platform such as AWS or GCP

- Continuous Integration and Delivery

- Experience with distributed architectures, SOA, microservices and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)

- Experience with Agile and Test Driven Development (TDD) methodologies.

- Familiarity with containers and their technologies such as Docker

- Familiarity with container orchestration technologies such as Mesos and Kubernetes

- Experience with high availability, high-scale, and performance systems.

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