Software Architect

Summary

Join Caylent's growing Cloud Native Applications team as a Software Architect, leveraging your deep application design expertise to deliver AWS solutions. Work alongside engineers, architects, sales, and project managers to support customers bringing cutting-edge ideas to market. Guide teams through Agile ceremonies, translate customer requirements into actionable tickets, and delegate tasks for project completion. Lead requirements gathering, architecture discussions, and apply your DevOps pipeline knowledge. Troubleshoot issues, automate software testing, write high-quality code, and clearly communicate designs. Mentor less experienced teammates and stay curious by tackling new technologies. This role requires strong collaboration, communication, and technical skills, with a focus on delivering clear, actionable solutions that meet client goals.

Requirements

• Confidently addresses client questions and identifies gaps in requirements with proposed next steps
• Focus on delivering clear, actionable solutions that meet client goals
• Facilitates alignment across stakeholders or technical priorities and deliverables
• Navigates differing perspectives with professionalism to ensure shared understanding and progress
• Breaks down complex technical concepts for non-technical audiences in a clear, concise manner
• Adapts communication style based on audience and context to improve clarity and decision-making
• 5+ years of proven experience in software development and cloud-native systems
• Strong background in established engineering practices and scalable architectures
• Expertise in web technologies (HTML, CSS) and frameworks (React, Vue, Angular, MVC .Net, etc.)
• Proficiency in server-side scripting (Python, Node.js, PHP, Ruby, etc.)
• Deep knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB)
• Experience in API integrations across applications, vendors, and cloud environments
• Understanding of modern application architectures (event-based systems, queues, microservices)
• Development experience on a major cloud platform (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Desire to integrate innovative technologies into development workflow
• Familiarity with Generative AI technologies
• Proven ability to lead a workstream and support others while contributing individually
• 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
• Private Health Insurance
• 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
• Work with an amazing worldwide team and in an incredible corporate culture