Work Location: Bengaluru, India
Reporting to: Director of Engineering
Experience: 10+ years
Responsibilities
You like to roll up your sleeves to solve problems of any size and domain. You are passionate about delivering game-changing value and love mentoring and coaching super-smart engineers.
As a Software Architect at Kickdrum, you will:
- Be an engineering leader with deep technical expertise working at the core of everything we build
- Get to work across several business domains such as Logistics, Healthcare, IoT, etc.
- Apply cloud architecture using AWS to power great user experiences for web, mobile, and desktop enterprise applications
- Work closely with our founders to design and deliver game-changing value to our customers and users
- Work with our customers to finalize architecture and technology choices
- Lead an exceptional team of smart and driven engineers as their coach and guru
- Be part of the Kickdrum India Leadership team to strategize and grow Kickdrum’s footprint in India in terms of people, business, and products
- Be exposed to all aspects of running a business while still staying technical
You’d make a great Software Architect at Kickdrum if you are:
- Experienced in architecting and building high-availability enterprise-grade systems with at least a decade of industry experience
- Ready to roll up your sleeves to solve business and technology problems of any size and domain (Please note: We don't want you coding regularly, but we want you capable of coding if/when needed on something new or complex)
- Passionate about applying a design-driven approach to problem-solving
- An advocate of delivering game-changing value to our customers and users
- Extremely passionate about code reviews, engineering best practices, and mentoring/coaching engineers to make them successful
- Love being in charge of designing and architecting original and innovative multi-layered, complex, highly scalable, and resilient systems
- Experienced in effectively working with remote/hybrid teams
- Obsessed with customer success and a complete sense of ownership and accountability
- A cloud expert with a mastery of AWS
Skills Required
- At least 10 years of industry experience
- Experience architecting and building high-availability, enterprise-grade systems
- Mastery of AWS and cloud architecture
- Ability to design complex, scalable, resilient, multi-layered systems
- Experience working effectively with remote or hybrid teams
- Experience mentoring and coaching engineers
- Strong expertise in engineering best practices and code reviews
- Ability to code when needed on new or complex initiatives
What We Do
Kickdrum is a technology consulting and engineering firm serving private-equity investors and Fortune 500 enterprises. It helps clients assess, accelerate, and assure enterprise value through technology due diligence, enterprise product engineering, AWS/cloud architecture and optimization, and strategic AI diligence, consulting, and implementation. The company also provides ongoing technology optimization and transformation support focused on managing risk, improving performance, and enabling growth.
