About the role:
Software Architect for a mentoring HO position as an integral member of our recently formed Developers Guild. We are a data and analytics company for digital media, tracking ads for companies like AT&T, Disney, McDonald's and more, across all platforms: Desktop, Mobile, Smart TVs, YouTube, Facebook, etc.
Responsibilities:
- Provide technical guidance and coaching to engineers through brainstorming sessions, design reviews, and pair-programming
- Advise regarding technical standards of quality, monitoring, security, modifiability, extensibility and maintainability of software
- Act as a technology trailblazer - evaluate new technologies, frameworks, tools, and methodologies, conduct PoCs and make recommendations to engineering management. Spread the knowledge by training engineering staff.
- Constantly review code, look for design breaches, provide meaningful and relevant feedback to developers, stay up-to-date with system changes.
- Create documentation, flow charts, and diagrams that record systems behavior, data flows, etc. with the purpose of serving as a reference for new team members, auditors, etc.
Required:
- BSc/MSc in Computer Science or equivalent
- 7+ years of hands-on experience building high scale / data-intensive systems
- 1+ year of leading a team
- Hands-on experience and a good understanding of a variety of technologies and programming languages such as Scala/Java and Big Data stream processing
- Superb understanding of SDLC process and coding principles
- Experience maintaining business-critical production systems
- Experience working in a high-paced and rapidly growing organizations
Good presentation skills
