Position: Principal Architect
Company: Surprise
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

**What will you be doing?**
Architecting and designing new functional and non-functional subsystems of the product;
Defining strategy for migration of existing parts of the product into microservices architecture;
Creating the architecture and technical design of the system for scalability and ability handle high load (millions MOUs);
Providing leadership and mentoring for technical leads;
Providing insights on best technical solutions and practices, ensuring successful and efficient product development;
Designing monitoring, reporting, and alerting systems across all infrastructure services;
Assisting with problem management to increase response times, time to restore, and system availability;
Assisting with implementation and/or redesign of AWS environments;
Assisting with implementation and supporting of CI and CD stacks for development.

**What are we looking for?**
7+ year of experience in the software development industry;
Extensive experience as a tech lead and/or architect;
Proven experience developing backend architecture, including designing and implementation of CI/CD pipelines;
Expert knowledge of any OOP language, Java and RoR would be a big advantage;
Sprong exposure to AWS, Heroku, RDBMS, NoSQL;
Technical proficiency in the scaling, security, and performance of enterprise applications, preferably with previous experience in consumer products;
Experience working with globally distributed teams and managing other architects;
Upper Intermediate English or higher (B2+).

**What skills will come in handy?**
Being an analytical and creative thinker who can approach problems from a first-principles-based framework;
Being an excellent communicator who can use compelling arguments to influence outcomes;
Experience working in a high-growth, early-stage startup.