Software Architect

Job Duties:

• Mentoring a team of developers: Mentor developers under Architecture team, provide technical assistance, prioritize and schedule the architectural improvements for the product with team.
• Strengthening Product Security: Work with Security analysts to develop best security practices and process for product and development team. Analyze security concerns and help resolve/remediate issues from product perspective.
• Frameworks Development: Execute in-depth troubleshooting and debugging within Spring, Hibernate, and other Java backend frameworks to diagnose and resolve highly complex issues.
• Microservices Architecture: Design, develop, and maintain microservices-based applications.
• Third-Party Tools Integration: Integrate and manage third-party tools such as Elasticsearch -ELK, Redis, Prometheus, Grafana, ActiveMQ, etc.
• Deployment: Deploy applications using Kubernetes and Helm charts.
• Continuous Improvement: Research and implement improvements to keep the product aligned with the latest technological advancements. Improve development processes and tools for development teams.
• Cross-Team Collaboration: Work closely with UI, Backend, QA, DevOps, DBA, Customer Support, Sales, and other teams to ensure seamless integration, delivery and customer satisfaction.
• Learning and Development: Stay updated with new challenges and technologies and be open to learning and implementing new solutions. For example, explore and integrate AI technologies to enhance the product.
• Write and submit clean, well-engineered code following software development best practices.
• Conduct in-depth reviews of code and tests authored by other developers and recommend improvements.

Soft Skills:

• Leadership skill to motivate team of technically strong candidates.
• Work as Mentor and Technology evangelist by sharing technical knowledge and empowering developers across the company.
• Good Domain knowledge and relevant technologies related to it.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Strong communication and collaboration abilities.
• Open-minded and eager to learn new technologies and methodologies.
• Ability to work effectively in a cross-functional team environment.

Required Technical Skills:

• Leadership experience as manager / tech lead, leading team of technologically motivated developers
• Fundamentally very strong in Core Java, associated frameworks like Spring, Spring Security Hibernate, OAuth etc.
• Professional experience around microservices architecture and Rest APIs.
• Good understanding of application security. Capability of studying vulnerabilities and evaluating their impact on application, suggesting resolution/mitigation plans for the same.
• Hands on experience in Container Technologies like Docker, Kubernetes, Helm etc.

Preferred Technical Skills (At least three of below):

• Experience with any 3rd party Software for microservice ecosystem: Elasticsearch stack, Redis, Prometheus, Grafana, Kafka or similar
• Experience around messaging technologies like ActiveMQ, Kafka, RabbitMQ.
• Experience around Cloud Technologies like AWS / Azure.
• Experience or good knowledge around OpenShift container platform.

Required Education/Experience:

• 12+ years of software development experience, with 3+ years in leading the team
• A bachelor's or higher-level degree in computer science or equivalent engineering field with good academic background.