Software Architect

We are obsessed with the hero's journey at JobNimbus. Every person has a hero's journey—Hermione Granger, James T. Kirk, Frodo Baggins, Anna & Elsa, Nacho Libre, and even YOU! This is our “call to adventure” to come check out JobNimbus. What do you have to lose? You might make a few new friends, learn about a sick new company doing some amazing things, and maybe even land a new job!

Mission:

Define and drive the architectural vision, structure, and patterns in line with business strategy. Improve the performance, maintainability, and long-term scalability of the platform. Ensure solutions meet user needs, remain secure, and enable teams to deliver high-quality features on time.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Legacy Systems Refactoring
• Collaborate with Cross-Functional Product Teams
• Establish and uphold engineering standards. Ensuring that solutions and underlying code are being built according to architecture best practices, verifies designs of software systems follow engineering best practices and align with company architectural vision
• Understands and can provide meaningful guidance to teams and leadership on both backend and frontend architectures (with a current emphasis on backend). Effectively follows the Separation of Concerns principle in new and refactoring designs.
• Prototyping and Feasibility Analysis
• Security & risk assessment
• System Performance Monitoring
• Progress communication
• Technical Roadmap Ownership
• Architectural Documentation 

What Makes You the Hero for This Job:

• 10+ years of professional software development experience
• 4+ years of experience as an Architect, Strategic Principal Engineer, Strategic Lead Engineer, or equivalent
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, related field -or- equivalent experience

• C#, NodeJS
• Architecting software using AWS Cloud Services (Lambdas, ECS, Cloudfront, API Gateway, RDS, etc)
• Understanding of CDN’s, Load balancers and API Gateways
• Relational and Document databases (preferably Postgres and DynamoDB)
• Kafka (or similar message brokers)
• Redis (or similar)
• Couchbase 
• API Design (RESTful and GraphQL)
• API Security and authentication (OAuth, JWT)
• Fine grained access controls in a distributed system
• Containers (Docker. ECS, Kubernetes, etc)
• Terraform (or similar IaaC tooling)
   

 Superpowers:

• Ownership. You own the outcomes, drive initiatives, and solve problems proactively. If you need direction and someone to hold your hand, this job is not for you.
• Customer Obsessed. Everything we build should leave our customers saying, "Aw dip. This product is off the charts cool. Whoever wrote that code deserves a raise!"
• Proactive Learning. You stay ahead of the curve, continuously learning and implementing cutting-edge technologies.
• Team Commitment. You build, mentor, and lead a high-performance engineering team that delivers results together.
• Self Awareness. You know your strengths, weaknesses, and how to surround yourself with the right talent to succeed.

Mentor (Hit us up to get more information)

Dustan Halbach - Specialist in hiring amazing people, lover of the outdoors, hunting, fly fishing, snowboarding, hockey and golf.

JobNimbus is proud to be an equal opportunity / affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal opportunity regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. This position may require the successful completion of a criminal background check and/or drug screen. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know in the application.

If you have any questions regarding this job post, please email jobs@jobnimbus.com.