Job Description

We are looking for a Lead Software Architect who believes in software products using simple and easy to use solutions. The ideal candidate must enjoy working in a fast-paced dynamic environment with a “take-charge” / “can-do” attitude and is able to demonstrate flexibility and resiliency. An architect who can design a System holistically keeping in mind all the aspects of the software including functionality, scalability, clean design, reusability, maintainability, and usability. We share a strong bond and trust between our internal teams (architecture, development, test, configuration, and operations). This is a team that constantly looking for ways to improve our development operations through people, process, and technology. This team also fosters a culture of innovation and encourages everyone to contribute through new ideas and insights.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Build high performant, highly scalable, complex, and distributed systems – end to end.
• Investigate new technologies and their implementation in our products, providing relevant ideas and suggestions to Product Owners.
• Develop a strong infrastructure, databases, and application, specifically in designing, coding, operating, and supporting high-performance, highly available services and infrastructure.
• Preparing technical documentation for end-users and internal customer solution developers.
• Review our legacy architecture and improve the design patterns by making the next-level technical design decisions that further define the product architecture.
• Producing well-written specifications that document the design decisions and outline the functional and non-functional requirements for a release.
• Implement new features in a highly collaborative environment with product managers, UI/UX experts, and software engineers.
• Build an efficient infrastructure and tooling to accelerate our research-to-product efforts and to enable efficient cloud-based deployment.
• Ability to share technical solutions with the team through design review, code review, proofs of-concept, and show and tell.
• Participate in brainstorming sessions and contribute ideas to our technology, algorithms, and products.
• Implement new features in a highly collaborative environment with product managers, UI/UX experts, and software engineers.
• Determine the feasibility of projects through quick prototyping with respect to performance, quality, time, and cost.
• Authors clean, scalable, modular, secure, well-structured and testable code.
• Designs and implements microservices based applications with thoughtfully defined APIs with CI and CD tools and processes.
• Clearly communicates architectural decisions, roadblocks and timelines.
• Adheres to all industry best practices and standards for Agile/Scrum Frameworks adopted by the Organization including but not limited to daily stand-ups, grooming, planning, retrospectives, sprint reviews, demos, and analytics via systems (JIRA) administration to directly support initiatives set by Product Management and the Organization at large.

DESIRED SKILLS:

• A developer with 10+ years of practical application of scripting languages such as JavaScript, Python, Bash, etc, and familiarity with application frameworks such as Angular JS, Java EE, etc
• Expert skills in application/backend engineering, developing GraphQL/REST/Web Service APIs/REST APIs and micro-services, DB (SQL/NoSQL) persistence.
• Solid foundation in data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented Design.
• Minimum 7+ years of experience developing and/or designing enterprise systems or commercial web-based systems.
• 5+ years of experience in C#/.NET.
• Experienced in developing software to access and manipulate modern relational databases such as MS SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL.
• Solid understanding of the concepts and principles behind DevOps, CI and CD, Agile, lean, configuration management, security, Software as a Service, etc.
• Strong design and extensive implementation experience with Node.js and core JavaScript within a highly scalable production environment

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree (or above) in engineering/computer science with an overall work experience of 15+ years.
• 8+ years of experience in software or data architecture roles.
• Experience designing cloud architecture is huge especially with AWS experience.
• Solid foundation in data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented Design.
• Be highly flexible and adaptable and demonstrate a passion for platform development.
• Experience with the full web stack performance optimization techniques.
• Familiar with AWS or other cloud environments. (AWS certification preferred)
• Knowledge of Python, Docker, Kubernetes.
• 5-6 years of experience designing, building and deploying high-availability backend services in an architect or senior development role.
• Ability to conceptualize end-to-end system components across a wide range of technologies and translate into architectural design patterns for implementation.
• Comfortable failing fast and working in a cross-disciplinary team environment
• A clear understanding of Functional and Object-Oriented programming paradigms, as well as their advantages and disadvantages.
• Fluency with the full software development lifecycle using Agile methodologies.

Company Description

JobSource has maintained a leadership position through the years based on a valuable premise – we invest in people. Today that focus benefits our customers wherever they operate around Southern California to individuals, non-profit organizations and corporations in the Northern American Continent in a growing number of specialized fields. We continue to meet the evolving challenges of workforce flexibility with staffing solutions tailored to your precise business needs.