Principal Software Architect

Summary

Join SEON's Architecture team as a Senior Software Architect and lead software engineering projects across the product development organization, shaping the technical architecture. This hybrid or remote role, based in the US, involves collaborating with development teams to design robust solutions, analyzing system performance, documenting design decisions, reviewing implementations, preparing deployment plans, and working with various teams to ensure timely and efficient delivery of new developments.

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

Benefits

This is a Hybrid or remote role and the ideal candidate will be based in the US