Principal Software Architect

Location: New York
Posted on: November 20, 2024

Job Description:

You'll work with your high-powered teammates to create amazing products that are efficient, intuitive, beautiful, and responsive. You should sweat about milliseconds of response time and obsess over the next 1 percent of efficiency-and the next. You'll be building creative solutions to new challenges while ensuring that our applications can scale to match huge demand across the world. You should love multi-terabyte non-relational databases and have dreams about client-side MVC frameworks. The group is being built like a startup that already has its seed, A, B and C round in the bag. We have a lot to prove and it's going to be a wild ride.  Key Tech Skills: Javascript, CSS, node.js, NoSQL, MongoDB, MVC or JSF, Agile.
 
Responsibilities:
• Designing technical architectures for complex solutions
• Providing technical and thought leadership on agile teams
• Writing great software adhering to agile software engineering practices (e.g., TDD, continuous integration, automated tests, etc.)
• Code review and mentorship of other developers on agile team
• Collaborating with product owners, stakeholders and potentially globally distributed teams
 
Qualifications:
• Masters / Bachelors' in Computer Science or related field, or 4 years of relevant work experience
• Minimum of 6+ years of relevant experience in designing large scale solution architectures
• Knowledge of one of the following languages C#, Java, C++, Ruby, Python, Scala
Preferred Qualifications:
• Thorough knowledge of JavaScript, CSS and Web Standards
• Familiarity with client side MVC frameworks, preferably Backbone.js
• Experience with at least one major server side web development stack, preferably MVC or JSF
• Technical knowledge of the least one major RDBMS, preferably SQL Server
• Ideally, experience with node.js for Server Side JavaScript development
• Ideally, experience with a NoSQL database, preferably MongoDB
• Experience with Agile as software development methodology
 
 

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