Distinguished Software Architect

Leading Software Architect
This role is ideal for a highly skilled and experienced software architect who will play a key part in defining the technical roadmap and architecture for our API platforms as they evolve.
As a senior member of our team, you will be responsible for helping shape the vision of our platform and guiding the implementation of major projects. You will need to have excellent communication and teamwork skills, both written and verbal, to facilitate collaboration across teams and foster a positive working relationship between stakeholders and engineers.
Key Responsibilities:
Technical Leadership
: Help shape the roadmaps for critical building blocks of our back-end systems.
API Architecture Expertise
: Become an authority in the area of API architecture and service communication.
Software Engineering Best Practices
: Define and evangelize best practices for software architecture and layering, service performance, resiliency patterns, and library consumption.
Innovative Solutions
: Design and implement intricate aspects of the system, showcasing your aptitude for tackling complex technical challenges effectively.
Distributed Cloud Infrastructure
: Propose innovative approaches and solutions to help future-proof our distributed cloud infrastructure.
Cross-Team Collaboration
: Engage with others to shape improvements through writing clear design documents, influencing others' designs, and running design meetings.
Major Project Implementation
: Guide the implementation of major projects, assisting in realistic task breakdown and keeping engineers in sync within and across teams using excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Engineering Guidance
: Provide guidance and mentorship to other engineers, assisting them in their professional development and helping them navigate technical challenges.
Reliability and Velocity Standards
: Facilitate and orchestrate cross-team initiatives that set a higher standard for reliability, velocity, and security.
Requirements:
Commercial Experience
: Ten-plus (10+) years of commercial experience developing sophisticated distributed web applications on the JVM.
Programming Languages
: Experience writing Java, with additional experience with backend languages such as Scala, Python, and Typescript a plus.
Communication and Teamwork
: Strong communication and teamwork skills, both written and verbal.
Cross-Team Facilitation
: Facilitating collaboration across teams, and fostering a positive working relationship between stakeholders and engineers.
Asynchronous Programming
: Expert in asynchronous or reactive programming techniques and associated patterns.
Computer Science Fundamentals
: Deep knowledge of computer science and engineering fundamentals: concurrency, data structures, and distributed systems.
Resiliency Techniques
: Understanding of resiliency techniques and patterns - load balancing, throttling, back pressure, circuit breaking, etc.
Distributed Cloud Environments
: Experience working in large distributed cloud environments (ideally AWS).
Modern Networking Protocols
: A strong working knowledge of modern networking protocols such as HTTP/2, protobuf, and Web Sockets.
RPC Frameworks
: A huge plus will be experience with RPC Frameworks like gRPC.
About the Role:
This role sits within our API Platform team as part of the Product Platform group.
As a versatile staff software engineer, you will be responsible for helping shape the vision of our platform.
Critically, you will have the experience to guide the implementation and turn that vision into a reality.