Senior Web Application Architect

Title: Senior Web Application Architect
Location: Seattle, WA - Remote
Openings: 1
Type: Full Time Hire

Job Description
 
The Client is searching for an experienced Senior Web Application Architect to work within an agile team of software developers to implement and maintain secure, scalable, cloud-based software solutions, build customer integration solutions, and streamline the team’s software delivery tools and processes. Technical aptitude is a must, and so is the right team-minded attitude and the ability to work interchangeably with others.  Applicants should be qualified as top-notch full-stack developers, with a passion for focusing on backend service-oriented architectures, scalable system design, databases and data models, and API-driven models.
 
Job Responsibilities

• Live and breathe a DevOps culture on a small team of Senior SDEs and SREs that work hand-in-hand with you to deliver modern, scalable, SaaS software across multiple cloud providers.
• Work daily alongside product leadership to define architecture, goals and deliverables from software development. This also includes working alongside product leadership to prioritize JIRA backlog and upcoming sprints for development.
• Architect and lead implementation the company’s flagship SaaS platform using a scalable microservice approach with technologies such as Node.js, Express, GraphQL, Python, Django, C#, and .NET Core.
• Help implement the company’s user-facing web apps using modern MVC, MVVM, and SPA framework - React.js.
• Follow software development best practices to create maintainable and extensible software solutions.
• Work with modern CI/CD tool and methodologies to ship product on a daily basis.
• Work in an agile manner with transparency and fluid communication within the engineering team and across other teams in the company.
• Work with product owner to understand internal and external requirements and help the team design solutions to satisfy these.
• Work with Senior SREs to contribute to the overall platform stability, availability, and quality.
• Enable SREs to have visibility and responsibility into the function of the code they are operating.
• Interact directly with SREs and customers to triage, debug, and remediate production issues.

 
Experience and Qualifications

• Education: Formal higher-education degrees in STEM fields or vocational certificates related to software development are preferred, but not required. Real-world experience and proven track records count as much, if not more.
• 5+ years of professional experience architecting software in modern SaaS, cloud, web, and mobile environments.
• 7+ years of professional programming experience with languages and frameworks such as React, Angular, TypeScript, Node, Express, Ruby, Rails, Python, Django, C#, .NET.
• Familiar with cloud and Linux sysadmin experience – IaaS, PaaS, and container/orchestration experience is important.
• Real-world shipping product development experience using client-side JavaScript frameworks and backend dynamic languages/frameworks in a service-oriented architecture.
• Proven track record of success in high-functioning continuous delivery environment.
• Working knowledge and hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes (or similar container/orchestration).
• Expertise with a variety of relational and NoSQL databases. MSSQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL, CouchDB, DocumentDB, DynamoDB, MongoDB, Redis preferred.
• Solid understanding of modern API design patterns (REST, GraphQL, JSON, etc.)
• Understanding of source control systems (git, hg, etc.) and related workflow patterns (e.g. GitFlow)
• Familiarity with Big Data systems such as Hadoop, HBase, HDFS, Spark, Kafka, etc. is a plus.
• Understanding of privacy-by-design frameworks, and code-level security techniques is a plus.
• Strong verbal and written communication and documentation skills is required.