Caylent is hiring a
Software Architect

Summary

Join Caylent, a cloud native services company, as a Software Architect to help organizations bring the best out of their people and technology using Amazon Web Services (AWS). The right candidate will have a deep understanding of building applications in the cloud and utilizing cloud native services. Your mission will be to work with a team of developers to ensure we are delivering high quality applications and services to our customers.

Requirements

• 5+ years of proven experience in software development, cloud systems, scalable architectures
• Strong background in established engineering practices
• Expertise in underlying web technologies like HTML and CSS, and experience developing with a framework like React, Vue, Angular, MVC .Net, etc
• Experience with modern server-side scripting languages such as python, node.js, php, ruby, etc
• In-depth knowledge of relational databases (e.g. PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL databases (e.g. MongoDB)
• Demonstrated experience in API integrations across applications, vendors, networks, and cloud environments
• Understanding of modern application architectures (event based systems, message queues, microservices, etc)
• Development experience on a major cloud platform (Azure, AWS, or GCP)
• Proven ability to learn new technology quickly and effectively
• Ability to lead a work stream, contributing individually while you help to organize others on the team
• Excellent organizational and leadership skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication
• Experience configuring AWS resources

Responsibilities

• You will be a mission control specialist, guiding Cayliens and Customers alike through Agile ceremonies like stand-ups, retrospectives, and more
• You will translate customer requirements and into a workable backlog of tickets for engineers
• Delegate tickets to a team of engineers in order to complete customer projects
• Lead requirements gathering, backlog grooming, and architecture discussions
• Apply your understanding of DevOps pipelines, including build automation, branching strategies, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, security, monitoring, logging, and alerting
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues in customer dev, test, and production environments
• Automate software testing at multiple levels (component, configuration item, subsystem, system) and monitor results
• Write production quality code, including unit and integration tests
• Work with a team to deliver top-quality cloud native applications on AWS for customers
• Clearly communicate and document your designs, processes, and procedures
• You will demonstrate a passion to Stay Curious as you mentor peers, tackle new technologies, and learn from our word-class team of engineers
• Coach and mentor less experienced teammates, coach and be mentored by world class engineers

Preferred Qualifications

• BS in a computing-related field, or commensurate experience
• Experience with testing and automation
• Experience with UI/UX
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with infrastructure as code tooling (SAM, Cloudformation, Terraform, etc)

Benefits

• 100% remote work
• Flexible Time Off
• Competitive phantom equity
• Paid for exams and certifications
• Peer bonus awards
• State of the art laptop and tools
• Equipment & Office Stipend
• Individual professional development plan
• Annual stipend for Learning and Development