Senior Software Architect

Summary

Join SEON's Architecture team as a Senior Software Architect and lead software engineering projects, shaping our technical architecture. This hybrid or remote role (US-based preferred) involves collaborating with various teams to design, develop, and deploy robust solutions. You will analyze system performance, document design decisions, and manage project implementation. SEON offers a competitive compensation package including employee stock ownership, flexible hours, generous holiday allowance, and comprehensive health insurance.

Requirements

• Strong working knowledge of modern web development technologies (two or more of the following: Java with Spring, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python)
• Experience with measuring and improving the performance of distributed systems
• Strong understanding of how web services and SaaS applications work
• Expertise with Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Experience with relational databases (we use PostgreSQL)
• Experience with modern DevOps tools (Terraform, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, ELK stack)
• Strong organizational skills and ability to work together with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Ability to work independently, prioritize your workload
• Excellent written and verbal English communication skills

Responsibilities

• Work out the technical scope of cross-team software projects based on the business requirements
• Collaborate with the development teams to design robust and performant solutions to the needs of SEON and our customers
• Analyze the performance of existing systems and work out solutions for improving it
• Document design decisions in the form of Architecture Decision Records
• Review the implementation of the technical plans
• Prepare deployment and migration plans and improve on existing deployment processes
• Collaborate with the engineering teams to push our solutions to production in a timely and efficient manner
• Collaborate with the Product Management team to prioritize, schedule and deliver new developments
• Work together with the SRE team to troubleshoot production issues and to enhance the observability of existing products
• Manage the implementation of our projects, coordinate between teams

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with multiple database technologies (eg.: ClickHouse, Neo4J, Redis, Elasticsearch)

Benefits

• Employee stock ownership plan (ESOP)
• Flexible hours
• Generous Holiday allowance
• Access to significant opportunities for learning and development
• Private health insurance including dependants (inc. employee assistance & mental health support)
• Complimentary weekly language courses
• Enhanced Parental leave
• Monthly company breakfast and weekly Lunch allowance
• Work from anywhere 60-day remote work