Software Architect

The Mission

We are seeking a talented Software Architect to join our growing Cloud Native Applications team. The right candidate is someone who has a deep understanding of building applications in the cloud and utilizing cloud native services to make applications more reliable and scalable. This person would also have a general understanding of industry best practices used for building applications. Your mission will be to work with a team of developers to ensure we are delivering high quality applications and services to our customers.

Your Assignment

• You will be a mission control specialist, guiding Cayliens and Customers alike through Agile ceremonies like stand-ups, retrospectives, and more
• You will translate customer requirements and into a workable backlog of tickets for engineers
• Delegate tickets to a team of engineers in order to complete customer projects
• Lead requirements gathering, backlog grooming, and architecture discussions.
• Apply your understanding of DevOps pipelines, including build automation, branching strategies, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, security, monitoring, logging, and alerting
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues in customer dev, test, and production environments
• Automate software testing at multiple levels (component, configuration item, subsystem, system) and monitor results
• Write production quality code, including unit and integration tests.
• Work with a team to deliver top-quality cloud native applications on AWS for customers
• Clearly communicate and document your designs, processes, and procedures.
• You will demonstrate a passion to Stay Curious as you mentor peers, tackle new technologies, and learn from our word-class team of engineers
• Coach and mentor less experienced teammates, coach and be mentored by world class engineers

Your Qualifications

• 5+ years of proven experience in software development, cloud systems, scalable architectures.
• Strong background in established engineering practices
• Expertise in underlying web technologies like HTML and CSS, and experience developing with a framework like React, Vue, Angular, MVC .Net, etc.
• Experience with modern server-side scripting languages such as python, node.js, php, ruby, etc.
• In-depth knowledge of relational databases (e.g. PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL databases (e.g. MongoDB)
• Demonstrated experience in API integrations across applications, vendors, networks, and cloud environments.
• Understanding of modern application architectures (event based systems, message queues, microservices, etc)
• Development experience on a major cloud platform (Azure, AWS, or GCP)
• Proven ability to learn new technology quickly and effectively. 
• Ability to lead a work stream, contributing individually while you help to organize others on the team
• Excellent organizational and leadership skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication
• Experience configuring AWS resources

Preferred Qualifications

• BS in a computing-related field, or commensurate experience.
• Experience with testing and automation
• Experience with UI/UX
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with infrastructure as code tooling (SAM, Cloudformation, Terraform, etc)

Benefits

• 100% remote work
• Flexible Time Off
• Competitive phantom equity
• Paid for exams and certifications
• Peer bonus awards
• State of the art laptop and tools
• Equipment & Office Stipend
• Individual professional development plan
• Annual stipend for Learning and Development
• Work with an amazing worldwide team and in an incredible corporate culture

Caylent is a place where everyone belongs.  We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Our approach helps us to build a winning team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and abilities. So, regardless of how your diversity expresses itself, you can find a home here at Caylent.   

We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, veteran status, genetic information, disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. If you would like to request an accommodation due to a disability, please contact us at hr@caylent.com.