Software Architect (Java)

An established USA transportation software development company is looking for a motivated Principal Software Engineering Lead / Architect. Our software serves more than 1.5 million trips per year, utilizing experience and knowledge accumulated during the company’s 22 year existence as well as modern technologies.

This is a full-time remote position.

Base Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering covering all stages of the product and service lifecycles
• 7+ years of experience in software development using Java
• Computer Science fundamentals in system design, data structures, algorithm design, and complexity analysis
• Strong background in OO design
• Working knowledge of enterprise application patterns
• Experience with at least one well-known ORM framework
• 5+ years of experience in working with relational databases
• 2+ years of experience in Spring Framework or in one of the Spring products based on it
• Knowledge of inversion of control design principle and experience with Dependency Injection frameworks
• Knowledge of CI/CD best practices
• Understanding of containerization technologies
• Experience releasing products with 24x7 availability
• Code reviews, design reviews, automated testing, whiteboard discussions
• Experience mentoring junior software engineers to improve their skills, and make them more effective

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related field
• Experience with evaluating different architectural approaches and solutions
• Comfortable with reactive stack (Webflux, Reactor, etc.)
• Hibernate or EclipseLink
• Spring Cloud
• Experience with monolithic and microservices architectures
• Experience implementing and consuming RESTful APIs (Spring RESTful)
• OpenAPI (Swagger)
• Experience with distributed caches (e.g. Infinispan, Terracota, Hazelcast)

Responsibilities

• Become an expert in all aspects of the software developed by the company, including legacy applications
• Be a role model and coach for the software development team
• Estimate and plan task execution
• Perform hands-on development, prototyping
• Lead code reviews and design reviews
• Communicate with users, other technical teams, and senior management to collect requirements, describe software product features and technical designs if needed
• Deploy new releases or assist in deployment
• Document solutions and software code according to best practices
• Report team progress to the company leadership
• Participate in discussions on how to improve and optimize internal processes and practices
• Mentor team members