Software Architect

Summary

Join Caylent's growing Cloud Native Applications team as a Software Architect! You will guide teams and customers through Agile processes, translate requirements into actionable tickets, and delegate tasks to engineers. Lead requirements gathering, architecture discussions, and apply your DevOps expertise. Troubleshoot issues, automate testing, and write high-quality code. Collaborate with a team to deliver top-tier cloud native applications on AWS. Mentor junior team members and embrace continuous learning in a fully remote, global company.

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
• Desire to integrate innovative technologies into development workflow
• Familiarity with Generative AI technologies
• Excellent organizational and leadership skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication
• Experience configuring AWS resources

Responsibilities

• Guide Cayliens and Customers alike through Agile ceremonies like stand-ups, retrospectives, and more
• 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
• 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 with Large Language Models (LLM) and Generative AI
• Experience with app dev acceleration tools like Amazon Q Developer, GitHub CoPilot, Cursor.AI, or similar
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with infrastructure as code tooling (SAM, Cloudformation, Terraform, etc)

Benefits

• 100% remote work
• Medical Insurance for you and eligible dependents
• Generous holidays and flexible PTO
• 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
• Work with an amazing worldwide team and in an incredible corporate culture