Software Architect - Backend API

Experience That Matters:

• Architectural

  Leadership:

  12+ years of progressive software engineering experience with deep focus on backend architecture, distributed systems design, and large-scale SaaS platform development

• SaaS

  Product

  Mastery:

  5+ years specifically architecting SaaS products at scale, with proven experience designing multi-tenant platforms, customer-facing APIs, and backend services that serve thousands of concurrent enterprise customers

• API s Microservices Expertise:

  Extensive experience architecting RESTful APIs, GraphQL endpoints, microservices ecosystems, and service mesh architectures that handle millions of requests per day with high availability requirements

• Configurable Platform Architecture:

  Extensive experience architecting highly configurable SaaS platforms with dynamic schema management, custom object creation, flexible field definitions, and runtime configuration changes that don't require system downtime

• CRM s Customer Platform Expertise:

  Significant experience building CRM systems, customer data platforms, or similar configurable business applications with complex workflow engines, reporting systems, and multi-tenant customization capabilities

• Enterprise-Scale

  Impact:

  Proven track record of architecting backend systems that scale from hundreds to millions of users, with experience in capacity planning, performance optimization, and cost-effective cloud resource management

Technical Excellence:

• Dynamic

  Schema

  s

  Metadata

  Management:

  Expert-level expertise in designing systems that support dynamic schema evolution, metadata-driven architectures, custom field types with validation rules, and real-time schema changes without affecting system performance or data integrity

• Workflow

  s

  Automation

  Architecture:

  Advanced expertise in designing configurable workflow engines, business process automation systems, rule engines, and state machines that support complex, customer-defined business logic and approval processes

• Report

  Builder

  s Analytics Architecture:

  Deep proficiency in architecting flexible reporting systems, query builders, data visualization engines, and analytics platforms that allow end-users to create custom reports and dashboards without technical knowledge

• API Design s Management:

  Advanced expertise in RESTful API design, GraphQL schema design, API versioning strategies, rate limiting, API security (OAuth 2.0, JWT, mTLS), and building developer-friendly API experiences with comprehensive documentation

• Microservices s Distributed Systems:

  Deep proficiency in microservices architecture patterns, service discovery, circuit breakers, distributed tracing, saga patterns, and designing resilient systems that gracefully handle partial failures

• Cloud-Native SaaS Architecture:

  Extensive experience architecting on major cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP) with deep knowledge of containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), serverless computing, auto-scaling strategies, and cloud-native security patterns

• Backend Architecture Mastery:

  Expert-level expertise in designing scalable backend architectures using modern Java (17+) and Spring ecosystem, with deep understanding of microservices patterns, distributed transactions, and event-driven architectures

• Database Architecture:

  Expert understanding of polyglot persistence, dynamic schema management, metadata repositories, flexible data modeling patterns, and optimizing both SQL and NoSQL databases for configurable SaaS workloads with complex custom field requirements

• Integration

  s

  Messaging:

  Advanced knowledge of enterprise integration patterns, message queues (Kafka, RabbitMQ), webhook architectures, ETL/streaming data pipelines, and designing robust third-party integrations

• Security s

  Compliance Architecture:

  Strong expertise in zero-trust security models, multi-tenant data isolation, encryption strategies, audit logging, and designing systems that meet SOC 2, ISO 27001, and financial services regulatory requirements

• Performance s Scalability:

  Deep experience in performance optimization, caching strategies (Redis, Hazelcast), load balancing, database query optimization, and designing systems that maintain sub-second response times under heavy load

AI-Assisted Development:

Architectural Leadership:

• Design Methodology:

  Proven expertise in architectural frameworks (Domain-Driven Design, Hexagonal Architecture, Event Storming), with experience leading architecture review boards, conducting technology assessments, and creating comprehensive API documentation and service blueprints

• Technical Strategy:

  Demonstrated ability to translate business requirements into technical strategy, create technology roadmaps for SaaS platforms, evaluate build-vs-buy decisions, and balance technical debt management with rapid feature development

• Configuration-Driven

  Development:

  Strong experience establishing configuration management frameworks, designing tenant-specific customization systems, implementing feature toggles and A/B testing infrastructure, and creating admin interfaces that enable business users to configure complex system behaviors

• API

  Strategy

  s

  Governance:

  Strong experience establishing API governance frameworks, designing API standards, implementing API lifecycle management, and creating developer portal experiences that accelerate third-party integrations

• Cross-Functional

  Collaboration:

  Extensive experience working with product managers, frontend teams, mobile developers, UX designers, DevOps engineers, and business stakeholders to align backend architecture with configurable user experiences and complex business workflow requirements

• Innovation

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  Pragmatism:

  Track record of introducing modern backend technologies and patterns while maintaining system stability, making principled architectural trade-offs, and ensuring solutions are maintainable by diverse engineering teams

• Mentorship-Driven Architecture:

  Strong background in coaching senior backend engineers on architectural thinking, conducting code and design reviews, facilitating architectural decision records (ADRs), and creating learning paths for complex distributed systems concepts