Architect

Asset Panda - Frisco, TX

Full-time - Senior

Remote - Frisco, TX

Publishing Industries

About the position

The Architect position at Asset Panda involves designing and implementing a robust cloud strategy for a fast-growing SaaS company. The role requires collaboration with business leaders to translate requirements into technical designs, guiding the engineering team in executing these strategies while ensuring best practices in software development. The Architect will also focus on optimizing cloud resources, enhancing security, and mentoring engineers to foster a culture of innovation in a fully remote environment.

Responsibilities

• Architect/Design a well-informed Cloud strategy and guide the engineering team in execution and adaptation of process.
• Partner with business executives and functional leaders in understanding requirements and translate these requirements into designs.
• Collaborate on integration patterns with development teams for both batch and real-time data movement.
• Maintain an ongoing awareness of emerging technology and industry trends, to inform technical domain strategy and direction.
• Enterprise-level data modeling and information classification expertise.
• Familiarize, evaluate and recommend cloud architecture solutions to meet the strategic needs of the company.
• Regularly evaluate Cloud resources and optimize how the cloud resources are being utilized and managed.
• Improve the security posture of the application.
• Lead, mentor, pair with software engineers of diverse backgrounds to write clean code.
• Mentor the engineering team to implement best practices in development.
• Architect/Design/Enhance existing Asset Panda SaaS platform including but not limited to Custom Asset definition, Custom Asset lifecycle creation, automation and execution, and Full text Search.

Requirements

• 2+ years of experience as an Architect - leading the technical architecture of a Cloud based, Multi-tenant SaaS platform.
• 10+ years of experience with Software Development using Javascript/NodeJS. Experience with Typescript will be nice to have.
• Experience working with AWS.
• Proven capability to architect and implement distributed systems based on serverless technology and/or microservices architecture. Knowledge of event-driven programming is a major plus.
• Strong experience with Key-Value Datastores (DynamoDB).
• Strong experience with GraphQL and REST.
• Strong experience with Elasticsearch or Opensearch.
• Proficient in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles and tools, with a specific emphasis on using AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK).
• Ability to work in a team environment and with globally distributed teams.
• Guide development in responding to technical challenges in a timely manner.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with Typescript.

Benefits

• Asset Panda pays the employee-only premium for medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Asset Panda paid life insurance policy
• 401k matching
• HSA employer contribution
• Unlimited PTO