Loopio is hiring a
Software Architect

Summary

Loopio is seeking a passionate and curious Software Architect to build and support their platform development. The role involves managing AWS infrastructure, improving security, automation, mentorship, and strategic decision making. Loopio is a remote-first company with established core sync hours and focus time during the workday.

Requirements

• Experience in a high growth agile software development environment
• A focus on automation and reducing toil
• Leadership within the team, expressing candor & curiosity
• Experience with AWS and AWS services (EC2, RDS, Route 53, VPCs, etc)
• Strong understanding of Immutable Infrastructure and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
• Experience with monitoring tools (CloudWatch, Datadog etc.)
• Solid understanding of best practices for delivery of cloud based managed applications at a global scale (e.g. DevOps, SRE, continuous delivery)

Responsibilities

• Building, maintaining, scaling, and hardening AWS infrastructure that supports current and future needs of our platform
• Maintain and improve the security posture of Loopio’s infrastructure in order to protect customer data
• Automating manual tasks, allowing the team to continue to focus on moving forward: improving our security posture, evaluating new technologies, and helping launch exciting new features
• Participate in strategic platform and technology decisions, including new technologies, cost-savings strategies, and improved process
• Project based work including software upgrades, centralized logging, automated monitoring, automated configuration management, testing, exploring alternative tools to incorporate into the environment, etc
• Mentor and coach others, providing technical guidance and helping build an environment of knowledge-sharing and candid feedback
• Playing a supporting role by joining Incident Response and on-call rotations
• Improve both our incident response and disaster recovery processes by simulating failure scenarios

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building and supporting high performance / high availability platforms with microservices architecture
• Containerization technology - Docker, ECS, Fargate
• Experience with Jenkins (CI/CD pipelines)
• Experience with centralized configuration management tools, such as Chef

Benefits

• Your manager supports your development by providing ongoing feedback and regular 1-on-1s
• You have tons of autonomy and responsibility: this role provides an opportunity to try new things and push creative boundaries
• You’ll learn more than you thought was possible; our team is obsessed with personal and professional growth (every Looper receives a professional mastery allowance each year)
• You’ll be set up to work remotely with a MacBook laptop, a monthly phone and internet allowance, and a work-from-home budget to help get your home office all set up!
• You’ll be joining a culture that has thoughtfully built out opportunities for connections in a remote first environment
• We have Employee Resource Groups and many more moments for us to have fun and learn together!
• You’ll be a part of an award-winning workplace and one of Canada’s fastest growing companies with ample opportunity to make a big impact here!