What are the responsibilities and job description for the Application Architect position at Daman?
Location: Austin, TX
Work Model: Hybrid - 3 days per week in office
Reporting to: Senior Manager, Engineering
Creator Experience team develops innovative platforms that assist players throughout their support journey, enable creators to share unique content that promotes our games, and ensure safe online gaming communities. We build low latency, cloud-native and generative AI applications that enhance Fan Care and Creator Engagement. Our team leverages cutting-edge technologies to create scalable and highly available solutions that maintain positive experiences for our global gaming community. We value people who bring fresh perspectives and are passionate about building exceptional digital experiences that keep players engaged, supported, and safe.
What You'll Do
- Be a technical leader for architectural direction on major, complex programs rolling out high-volume applications and microservices
- Drive end-to-end project execution from conception to production deployment, taking full ownership of delivery timelines and ensuring successful project outcomes
- Demonstrate strong hands-on experience developing full stack applications to implement architectural solutions and guide technical implementation
- Lead architectural design of complex web applications using Java, React, Springboot and cloud technologies
- Deliver backend experiences in partnership with distributed teams, ensuring Java architectural vision integrates seamlessly with React/Angular frontend applications
- Establish technical standards, best practices, and architectural patterns for full stack development across multiple teams
- Partner with UI/UX designers, product managers, and global stakeholders to translate our requirements into technical solutions
- Provide technical mentorship to engineering teams and lead architectural reviews
- Optimize application performance, scalability, and user experience across the full stack
- Architect cloud infrastructure solutions and oversee DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and deployment strategies
- Design integrations with enterprise systems including Salesforce to support business operations
What You Need
- Bachelor's degree and 7 years of full stack development experience with 3 years in architectural or senior technical leadership role
- Expert-level proficiency with Java 17 , Spring Boot 3.x, Spring Framework, and enterprise Java patterns, React, angular etc.
- Deep expertise in microservices architecture patterns, distributed systems, enterprise integration and messaging patterns, and building scalable, highly available APIs following security best practices including Spring Security, OAuth, JWT, and enterprise authentication patterns
- Extensive experience with AWS cloud services including ECS/EKS, Lambda, RDS/Aurora, API Gateway, and AWS networking for Java applications
- Extensive cloud platform experience (AWS, GCP, or Azure) with containerization and serverless architectures
- Solid experience with both SQL databases (Amazon RDS, Aurora, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL databases (DynamoDB, MongoDB)
- Strong DevOps experience with CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation)
- Experience integrating machine learning and AI services with Web applications
- Experience leading technical teams, driving architectural decisions, and mentoring engineers
- Experience with comprehensive testing strategies and modern development practices
- Excellent communication skills presenting technical concepts to diverse stakeholders
Good to have: Gaming/entertainment technology experience, GraphQL expertise, Docker/Kubernetes proficiency, event-driven architectures, security architecture knowledge, or Salesforce platform development.
