What are the responsibilities and job description for the Software Architect position at JobNimbus?
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Mission:
Define and drive the architectural vision, structure, and patterns in line with business strategy. Improve the performance, maintainability, and long-term scalability of the platform. Ensure solutions meet user needs, remain secure, and enable teams to deliver high-quality features on time.
What You'll Be Doing:
Dustan Halbach - Specialist in hiring amazing people, lover of the outdoors, hunting, fly fishing, snowboarding, hockey and golf.
Mission:
Define and drive the architectural vision, structure, and patterns in line with business strategy. Improve the performance, maintainability, and long-term scalability of the platform. Ensure solutions meet user needs, remain secure, and enable teams to deliver high-quality features on time.
What You'll Be Doing:
- Legacy Systems Refactoring
- Collaborate with Cross-Functional Product Teams
- Establish and uphold engineering standards. Ensuring that solutions and underlying code are being built according to architecture best practices, verifies designs of software systems follow engineering best practices and align with company architectural vision
- Understands and can provide meaningful guidance to teams and leadership on both backend and frontend architectures (with a current emphasis on backend). Effectively follows the Separation of Concerns principle in new and refactoring designs.
- Prototyping and Feasibility Analysis
- Security & risk assessment
- System Performance Monitoring
- Progress communication
- Technical Roadmap Ownership
- Architectural Documentation
- 10 years of professional software development experience
- 4 years of experience as an Architect, Strategic Principal Engineer, Strategic Lead Engineer, or equivalent
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, related field -or- equivalent experience
- C#, NodeJS
- Architecting software using AWS Cloud Services (Lambdas, ECS, Cloudfront, API Gateway, RDS, etc)
- Understanding of CDN’s, Load balancers and API Gateways
- Relational and Document databases (preferably Postgres and DynamoDB)
- Kafka (or similar message brokers)
- Redis (or similar)
- Couchbase
- API Design (RESTful and GraphQL)
- API Security and authentication (OAuth, JWT)
- Fine grained access controls in a distributed system
- Containers (Docker. ECS, Kubernetes, etc)
- Terraform (or similar IaaC tooling)
- Ownership. You own the outcomes, drive initiatives, and solve problems proactively. If you need direction and someone to hold your hand, this job is not for you.
- Customer Obsessed. Everything we build should leave our customers saying, "Aw dip. This product is off the charts cool. Whoever wrote that code deserves a raise!"
- Proactive Learning. You stay ahead of the curve, continuously learning and implementing cutting-edge technologies.
- Team Commitment. You build, mentor, and lead a high-performance engineering team that delivers results together.
- Self Awareness. You know your strengths, weaknesses, and how to surround yourself with the right talent to succeed.
Dustan Halbach - Specialist in hiring amazing people, lover of the outdoors, hunting, fly fishing, snowboarding, hockey and golf.