Software Architect

Responsabilities

• 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

About You

• 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
• Still highly technical and have at least staff-level coding skills at this point in your career
• 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

Preferred Experience

• 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 
• 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)

Nice to have

• Technical depth with our stack (python & node web services, react, postgres, kubernetes, aws, datadog)
• Data eng experience
• Devops experience
• Have participated in eng 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

We've got you covered

• We are a Remote-first company, we offer flexible working hours with complete work-from-home freedom and a guilt-free unlimited vacation policy
• Enjoy rewards and travel discounts using SuperTravel
• Competitive salaries, equity options, full benefits from day one, wellness budgets, and paid development - we’ve got you covered!
• UberEats credits, meal budgets, special treats, and team lunches. When in the office, enjoy daily snack services and unlimited coffee, tea, and other drinks
• Guiding continued growth with Learning & Development, Diversity & Inclusion events, TED talk Tuesdays, and Lunch & Learn opportunities
• We welcome new additions with a generous EI top-up, parental leave, additional vacation, and a flexible return-to-work plan
• Game nights, Happy Hours, internal hackathons, team-building games, workouts, and more