Remote Senior Software Architect

Summary

Join PointClickCare, a leading North American healthcare technology platform, as a Senior Software Architect. You will collaborate with stakeholders to understand their requirements and translate them into scalable software solutions. As a Senior Software Architect, you will drive the technical feasibility analysis for projects, lead engineering teams, and define the strategic architecture vision.

Requirements

• Solid experience in designing large scale, web-based software products
• Experience developing and deploying complex systems in Azure or another public cloud provider
• Deep familiarity with many elements of our technology stack, including Kubernetes, Docker, Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, Avro, JavaScript, MySQL, and Gradle
• Prior experience with high-throughput healthcare information systems using HL7 or FHIR, or analogous integrations in other domains
• Ability to manage system complexity through modularization and specification of maintainable boundaries between components
• Exceptional analytical, planning, and diagnostic abilities
• Active listening skills and clear communication in speaking, writing, and diagramming
• Interpersonal skills to build consensus and promote understanding and adoption of architectural strategy
• Recognition and application of object-oriented design principles, software design patterns, and architectural patterns

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to translate complex and ambiguous business requirements into robust solution designs
• Assess the technical feasibility of new projects and help engineering teams to solve their most difficult technical challenges
• Understand and contribute to the long-term system architecture strategy and teach others about it
• Design for non-functional requirements including maintainability, efficiency, scalability, observability, availability, and security
• Estimate resources required for a proposed design and optimize plans for cost, performance, or other attributes
• Help to review design proposals from others
• Produce technical documentation relating to application architecture, design steps, integration processes and testing procedures
• Research new software, tools, and practices, and provide recommendations and proofs of concept
• Define best practices, patterns, and guidelines in coding and system design
• Review designs and code to ensure its compliance with best practices and coding standards
• Provide technical mentoring, guidance, and consultation to other architects and engineering teams to ensure the successful execution of software projects
• Analyze legacy code and plan for enhancements to maintainability and other non-functional requirements

Benefits

• $162,000 - $181,000 a year base salary range
• Bonus + equity + benefits