Job Description

We are looking for an experienced lead architect to help our team continue to deliver high quality, testable, and scalable software. Our globally distributed team is responsible for several important microservices and frontend applications at SquareTrade.

In this role, you will:

Partner with product owners and stakeholders to understand and translate business and technical requirements for the team

Drive the design and architecture of our projects

Understand the big picture, end to end, for our projects

Stay up to date on team progress and communicate to stakeholders

Guide and mentor team members

Be a positive influence on the team and organization

Ensure team is delivering high quality code that makes an impact

Identify business improvement opportunities and pursue them with appropriate stakeholders

Provide production support as needed

Job Responsibilities

Partner with product owners and stakeholders to understand and translate business and technical requirements for the team 

Drive the design and architecture of our projects Understand the big picture, end to end, for our projects 

Stay up to date on team progress and communicate to stakeholders 

Guide and mentor team members Be a positive influence on the team and organization Ensure team is delivering high quality code that makes an impact Identify business improvement opportunities and pursue them with appropriate stakeholders Provide production support as needed

Requirements

5+ years of professional software development experience in Java based enterprise applications

5+ years of demonstrated automated unit/integration test experience

Strong Java skills and the desire to work with Spring and Spring Boot 2

5+ Experience in event driven architecture and domain driven design 

5+ Experience building robust microservices

Must have experience in cloud technologies.

Solid understanding of RESTful APIs

Knowledge and experience with scalable distributed systems

Knowledge and experience with debugging performance problems in distributed systems

Familiarity with event driven architectures and related technologies such as Kafka and ActiveMQ

Strong relational database experience (Postgres preferred)

Experience working in an agile environment that follows Scrum or other agile methodologies

Strong written and verbal communication skills

Work effectively with a diverse team spread across multiple time zones

Primary Skills

Java , Spring-boot , API, micro service , Cloud migration , even drivers architecture , domain driven design

Experience

6-10 year