Software Architect, Super

• Highly motivated, interested in wearing multiple hats, and looking forward to working in a fast-paced scaleup environment with an emphasis on delivering business value
• Still highly technical and have at least staff-level coding skills at this point in your career
• A positive / enthusiastic person who enjoys solving problems, not just identifying them
• Strong technical and non-technical communication skills
• Get excited about leading cross-team technical discussions and driving architectural change progressively and through influence
• 5+ years experience as a Staff Engineer or above (including CTO), working on full-stack web development
• At least staff level coding ability and intuition for full-stack web development
• At least senior depth in JS and Python
• Deep expertise in full-stack web development, system design, and using modern web technologies & cloud-based infrastructure
• Have been a technical lead (not necessarily people lead) for shipping major projects, and have worked with multiple complex codebases and across teams
• Have mentored senior engineers, and look forward to continuing to do so
• Have experience owning, monitoring, and debugging production services, including high QPS services
• Have worked in a startup or scaleup environment

Desirable

• As a Software Architect you will be the most senior technical individual contributor in our company
• You will be the point person for solving the most difficult technical challenges our engineering org faces spanning frontend and backend web development as well as system architecture
• You will drive our long-term technology roadmap and how to best leverage engineering to drive user and business impact in our fintech, travel, earnings, and membership products
• You will predominantly work with React on the frontend, and a combination of Python and Node microservices on the backend
• Other technologies you’ll work with include Gitlab, AWS, Kubernetes, Postgres, Redis, Datadog, Amplitude, and Snowflake
• You will report to the engineering department head, and play a key role on our “techxecutive” team
• Oversee the technical direction for engineering org full-stack web development projects and system architecture
• Raise the bar for engineering through mentorship, leading by example, and contributing to technical decision making and guilds
• Tackle high-priority, high-impact, and ambitious initiatives to propel our company and technical excellence forward, getting your hands dirty with POCs and working with others to productionize
• Report into the engineering department head, but work largely self-directed and autonomously. Your role will be versatile, making use of your judgment to direct your efforts to the highest leverage use of your time in any given week
• Contribute to quarterly OKR planning and brainstorming to ensure we are prioritizing technical initiatives to improve engineering productivity and architecture robustness
• Help ensure our engineering teams strike the right balance between building quickly and building sustainably, and build vs. buy decision making