Software Architect

We are obsessed with the hero's journey at JobNimbus.  Every person has a hero's journey.  Hermione Granger, James T. Kirk, Frodo Baggins, Anna & Elsa, Nacho Libre, and even YOU!  This is our “call to adventure” to come check out JobNimbus.  What do you have to lose?  You might make a few new friends, learn about a sick new company doing some amazing things, and maybe you’ll even land a new job!

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

What makes you the hero for this job:

• 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

Technology Qualifications

• 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. We need someone who embodies this value and can figure things out and move quickly. If you need direction and someone to hold your hand, this job is not for you.

Customer Obsessed. Unit and integration tests should deliver value in reducing code smells, and issues via static analysis feedback. In other words, our customers should be saying, "Aw dip. This product is off the charts cool.  Whoever wrote that code deserves a raise!"