Software Architect

What you'll be working on:

• Oversee the technical direction for engineering org full-stack web development projects and system architecture
• Raise the bar for engineering through mentorship, leading by example, and contributing to technical decision making and guilds
• Tackle high-priority, high-impact, and ambitious initiatives to propel our company and technical excellence forward, getting your hands dirty with POCs and working with others to productionize
• Report into the engineering department head, but work largely self-directed and autonomously. Your role will be versatile, making use of your judgment to direct your efforts to the highest leverage use of your time in any given week
• Contribute to quarterly OKR planning and brainstorming to ensure we are prioritizing technical initiatives to improve engineering productivity and architecture robustness
• Help ensure our engineering teams strike the right balance between building quickly and building sustainably, and build vs. buy decision making

Our Technology:

• We use a state of the art architecture powered by Node and Python microservices and React frontend
• We use Postgres for storage, Redis for caching, and Snowflake for our data warehouse
• We use Gitlab for version control and CI/CD, and our infrastructure is hosted on AWS, making use of Kubernetes, RDS, etc
• We invest heavily in monitoring and automated alerting using Datadog
• We use Amplitude, Hotjar, and LogRocket for client-side metrics and experimentation
• We use Material-UI and maintain our own component library, using Figma for mock-ups
• We integrate with a multitude of third-parties to support our compliance, risk, and security policies]

Who we're looking for:

• Highly motivated, interested in wearing multiple hats, and looking forward to working in a fast-paced scale-up environment with an emphasis on delivering business value
• A positive / enthusiastic person who enjoys solving problems, not just identifying them
• Strong technical and non-technical communication skills
• Get excited about leading cross-team technical discussions and driving architectural change progressively and through influence
• 5+ years experience as a Staff Engineer or above (including CTO), working on full-stack web development
• At least staff level coding ability and intuition for full-stack web development , and at least senior depth in JS and Python
• Deep expertise in full-stack web development, system design, and using modern web technologies & cloud-based infrastructure
• Have been a technical lead (not necessarily people lead) for shipping major projects, and have worked with multiple complex codebases and across teams
• Have mentored senior engineers, and look forward to continuing to do so
• Experience implementing event driven architecture, message brokers, event streaming and storage (Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc.) 
• Have experience owning, monitoring, and debugging production services, including high QPS services
• Have worked in a startup or scaleup environment, and with medium scale products (typically high QPS and/or large customer base)

Bonus Points for:

• Technical depth with our stack (Python & nNde web services, React, Postgres, Kubernetes, AWS, Datadog)
• Data Engineering experience
• DevOps experience
• Have participated in Engineering org knowledge sharing / tech talks, and/or led a guild to establish engineering best practices
• Have been a key decision maker for build/buy decision making and SaaS selection