Software Architecture - Sr Advisor I

What You Will Do

• Design, develop, and evolve scalable, resilient backend services and APIs.
• Provide technical leadership and architectural guidance across complex software initiatives.
• Collaborate across engineering, architecture, product, and operations teams to define technical designs and implementation strategies.
• Design and optimize solutions using PostgreSQL and other relational database technologies for high-volume transactional workloads.
• Lead application and database modernization and migration initiatives while maintaining availability, performance, data integrity, and security.
• Design and operate cloud-native applications using containers and Kubernetes.
• Improve CI/CD, deployment automation, testing, observability, and production-readiness practices.
• Use AI-assisted development tools to improve design, implementation, testing, documentation, and troubleshooting while independently validating generated output.
• Troubleshoot complex application, API, database, and distributed-system issues.
• Mentor engineers, influence technical direction across teams, and help establish consistent engineering practices.
• Required Qualifications
• 10+ years of professional software-engineering experience designing, developing, and supporting production systems.
• Strong experience developing backend systems in Go or another modern programming language, with the ability and willingness to become productive in Go.
• Significant experience with software architecture, technical design, and technical leadership across complex or distributed systems.
• Strong experience designing APIs and service-based architectures.
• Strong experience with relational databases, SQL, data modeling, performance optimization, partitioning, and data-migration techniques.
• Experience designing and operating cloud-native applications using containers and Kubernetes.
• Experience with CI/CD, deployment automation, automated testing, observability, and production troubleshooting.
• Strong understanding of distributed-system concepts including scalability, resiliency, availability, concurrency, and failure handling.