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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