Software Architect

16 Nov 2024

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Job Description

What We Do: The Software Architecture team designs and develops software systems and applications. We make high-level decisions determining design choices, platforms, technical and coding standards. Software Architects oversee and work closely with software engineers, Software Engineering Manager and Product. We determine the technical direction of software development projects. Each major product initiative is supported by a Software Architect. We anticipate and plan for medium to long term technical work that needs to be done in the next 3 months to a year.

What You Do: As a Software Architect you will contribute to our industry leading software platform. You will play a key role in building enterprise software used by companies to attract and retain top talent. The right individual for this role will be a motivated, energetic, and detail-oriented leader who takes utmost pride in their work and has a consistent track record of building performant and scalable SaaS applications and will thrive by working in a high-growth environment using the latest internet technologies.

Day-in-the-Life: As a Software Architect, a typical day may include the following…

  • Build the best applications in the industry
  • Ensure software meets all requirements of performance, scalability, quality and security to produce world class products
  • Provide architecture and technical guidance to the engineering teams
  • Ensure consistency with architectural design and code standards
  • Collaborate with QA, Product and other stakeholders
  • Research new technologies and stay ahead of the industry
  • Evaluate emerging technologies and apply them (if applicable) in the Payscale Platform
  • Innovate. Don’t be complacent

Qualifications

  • 6+ years software engineering experience, 2+ years in an architect role
  • You can clearly articulate technical concepts to developers, managers, and less technical colleagues.
  • Experience serving as the technical lead on multiple high impact and high visibility projects.
  • Experience mentoring senior engineers on designing and implementing challenging projects.
  • Experience implementing and designing micro services architecture
  • Experience designing and implementing Event Drive Architecture (e.g. Kafka, AWS Kinesis, Azure Event Hubs, GCP PubSub)
  • Experience with cloud providers (AWS, Azure) and cloud native solutions.
  • Agile/SCRUM experience.
  • Implementation knowledge of Object-Oriented Programming Design Patterns
  • Experience with RESTful Web Services
  • Working knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker and containerization
  • CI/CD experience is a

    plus

Tools:

  • .NET Core, Microsoft .NET Framework, .NET Coding Standards, Unit Testing Frameworks
  • JavaScript Frameworks (Angular 5)
  • Relational Databases (SQL Server 2019)
  • NoSQL Databases (MongoDB)
  • Elastic Search, Kibana, Logstash
  • Python knowledge is a

    plus

Additional Information

Benefits and Perks – The Highlights:

All around awesome culture where together we strive to:

  • Pursue excellence every day
  • Create customer value
  • Compete to win (and lose!) as a team

As part of our culture of transparency and commitment to employee engagement, we have several programs and resources such as:

  • Regular virtual company meetings
  • Coffee chats
  • Table for 4 Executive conversation
  • Spirit Week
  • Pulsing tools for continuous conversations to drive performance and career growth
  • Strengths based tools designed to help employees engage with peers and managers, supported through a program called StandOut
  • Access to top notch learning courses for all employees through LinkedIn Learning
  • As well as constant re-evaluation of what our employees need to be successful at work!

Our more standard benefits include:

  • Flexible Paid Time Off program – most employees average around 3 weeks per year
  • 14 paid holidays including Independence Week, Juneteenth and World Mental Health Day
  • 3 comprehensive health plans to fit your unique needs; plans have up to 100% company-paid premium coverage for employee Medical, Dental and Vision
  • Access to Premera’s Healthcare Services including an Employee Assistance Program (EAP), 24-hour Nurse Hotline, Telehealth (Doctor on Demand), Talkspace, and other virtual care options
  • Flexible Spending Account (FSA) options for pre-tax employee allocations towards: Medical, Dependent Care, Parking, and Transit
  • Company Paid Short Term Disability, Long Term Disability, and Life Insurance
  • Comprehensive Paid Parental / Adoption Leave program
  • 401k program with fully vested, immediate company match

Equal Opportunity Employer:We embrace equal employment opportunity.

PayScale is committed to a policy of equal employment opportunity for all applicants and employees. It is our policy that employees will not be subjected to unlawful discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin or ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran or military status, marital status, sexual orientation, political ideology and any other basis protected by federal, state, or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including but not limited to: recruitment, hiring, transfers, promotions, training, discipline, termination, compensation and benefits, performance appraisals, education, and social and recreational programs.

  • ID: #22899275
  • State: Arizona Phoenix 85001 Phoenix USA
  • City: Phoenix
  • Salary: USD TBD TBD
  • Job type: Full-time
  • Showed: 2021-11-16
  • Deadline: 2022-01-15
  • Category: Et cetera