Software Architect

Position Summary: 

We are seeking an experienced and dynamic Software Architect. As a Software Architect, you will have a significant role in designing and implementing scalable, reliable, and high-performance features. Your responsibilities will include defining the overall architecture, technology stack, and development standards to ensure the successful delivery of software projects. Your expertise in software design principles, system integration, and emerging technologies will drive innovation and guide the development team to deliver robust and efficient software solutions

Responsibilities:  

• Software Architecture Design: Define the overall software architecture and technical roadmap for the organization.

• Technical Leadership: Provide technical leadership and guidance to the development team. Collaborate with developers to help to resolve technical challenges, review code when it’s needed, and provide constructive feedback. Oversee PR and Merging process and provide feedback to other team members during PR reviews, but only in case if it’s needed. Architects can provide assistance with PR reviews if requested by the team, but typically, the team should manage their own PRs.

• Mentoring and Training: Mentor and train team leaders and team members to ensure they are well-informed about the platform and can confidently make decisions during the implementation phase.

• Software Development Standards: Establish coding standards, development guidelines, and best practices to ensure high-quality software development. Mentor and guide development teams in adhering to these standards.

• Technical debts: Review the technical debt items with the team, offer guidance, and approve the proposed changes.

• Performance and Scalability: Mentor the team to implement solutions that are scalable, performant, and capable of handling high volumes of data and user traffic. Guide the team to optimize system performance and identify opportunities for optimization.

• Security and Compliance: Define and enforce software security practices and standards. Ensure compliance with data protection regulations and industry’s best practices in software security.

• Collaboration and Communication: Collaborate effectively with other architects and teams on a regular basis, including product managers, business analysts, product owners, and quality assurance teams, to align software architecture with business goals and come up with designs. It is crucial to effectively communicate technical concepts and decisions to non-technical stakeholders.

• Release Management: Define the release management process. The architect should maintain awareness and visibility of upcoming production deployments and oversee the overall deployment process. Release process needs to be handled by other dedicated team members.

• System Documentation: Maintain the system technical documentation in well-structured way. It is the architect's responsibility to ensure that all system changes are thoroughly documented as part of the new features technical design phase or later during the implementation process either by himself or other team members.

• Kafka & NoSQL databases