As a Software Architect, you would be in-charge of the overall UI/UX of the platform which enables beautiful and rich business apps to be developed by abstracting the complexities of scale, performance, configuration, monitoring, testing, logging, alerting etc. while still allowing the app developer to focus on business logic.

To be successful in this role you have to be a proactive individual who constantly challenges the existing frameworks and makes strategic choices to meet the growth requirements of our client. Furthermore, you will be working in a diverse cultural environment and collaborating with creative minds from all over the world.

Job Responsibilities:

• Responsible for design and development of UI and related tiers in multi-tiered, scalable applications in the traditional as well as Cloud based environments.
• Provides knowledge in UI technology standards and architectural governance. Provides guidance to project teams regarding UI guiding principles, system and application design, coding and design standards, best practices, and system performance and availability.
• Support and create a Standard Framework for development projects, Common Libraries to re-use components.
• Influence development managers to ensure appropriate levels of quality on owned architecture(s).
• Collaborates effectively with peer architects to solve complex problems spanning their respective areas and resolves a technological disagreement. Arbitrates disagreements among engineers and makes decisions where needed convincing the team.
• Lead collaboration efforts and mentor other developers, programmers, and designers in conceptualizing and developing new software programs and applications. Liaise with network administrators, systems analysts, and software engineers to assist in resolving problems with software products or company software systems.
• Design, run and monitor software performance tests on new and existing programs for the purposes of correcting errors, isolating areas for improvement, and general debugging.
• Participate in critical analysis of test results and deliver solutions to problem areas.
• Conduct research on emerging application development software products, languages, and standards in support of procurement and development efforts.

If what you read so far excites you about joining us, then we would like you to be already equipped with the following qualifications:

• Advanced Degree in Computer Science or related field (or equivalent experience)
• 10+ years of software development experience using traditional software development life cycle methodologies (covering requirements, design, development, testing and Implementation of n-tier architecture) as well as more current methodologies such as Agile (RUP, XP, SCRUM, Iterative Development).
• Extensive experience with object-oriented UI Tier software development methodologies and practices. Ability to design and implement Multi Browser UI Frameworks development, UI Unit Tests, UI Diagnostics, and Performance.
• Must have exposure with Test Driven Development/Refactoring ideas/ Domain driven design patterns/continuous integration/Build Automation / Data-Mapper framework/Mocks. Background in implementing n-tier, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and MVP/MVC architecture. Product conceptualization to realization.
• Well versed with Refactoring Tools, Unit Test Tools, UML based Design Tools, Data Modeling Tools.
• In-depth knowledge and work experience in HTML5/CSS3, Sass/Less, flex layouts, XML, JSON.
• Formal testing and software quality assurance experience including complete testing cycle (unit, application, integration, user acceptance).

These are the frameworks/libraries/tools we use today:

• PolymerJS / Lit / AngularJS
• NGINX, NodeJS, GO lang
• CSS LESS or SASS frameworks
• Web load balancers, web servers, web authentication design patterns and libraries (Oath, PassportJS, SAML, etc.), web sockets and libraries
• Browser-based data visualization libraries such as Google charts and Highcharts.
• Webpack, Vulcanize, npm, Bower, Git
• Wireframes/Prototyping (Figma, Illustrator, Sketch, etc.)