Position: Lead Architect
Company: Unit City
Category: Lead
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

**About Us**

We have built the world's largest and most global networks for **on-demand production **of customized items e.g. t-shirts, wall art, mugs, books, hoodies, and cards. We support a new wave of e-commerce entrepreneurs and the global shift towards local and more sustainable production.
We own no physical assets, our asset is a digital connectivity platform that enables world-class on-demand production for e-commerce platforms and applications. We already have more than 100 production partners in 30 countries. In 72 hours we can reach more than 5 billion people and potential consumers in a smarter, faster, and greener way.

**What you will be doing:**

• Assuring that our solutions are sustainable, scalable and are built in accordance with best practices and soundly architecturally designed
• Working in an Agile environment, including Continuous Integration and Deployment with Domain-Driven Development
• Cultivating relationships between product, engineering , security and key stakeholders
• Researching, consulting and innovating the tools, frameworks, hardware and software for providing web scale cloud services
• Assisting stakeholders in understanding technical implications and consequences of strategic choices
• Ensuring scalability, performance and security according to defined strategies and processes
• Advising and guiding in technology choices and their application

**Who you are**

• Holding a Masters degree in Computer Science or 5+ years in a similar position
• You can relate architectural decisions and recommendations to business needs and thrive when working in the intersection between business and engineering development
• Strong technical background and an expert in many tech stacks (mobile, web, backend)
• You have experience working with solution architecture in a complex enterprise environment supporting multiple teams
• Passionate about engineering practices like agile, continuous delivery, test-driven development, traceability and observability
• Experience designing and building highly scalable cloud native applications
• Familiarity with common cloud services (AWS, GCP, etc.), microservice architectures (Kubenetes, event streaming , etc.), products (e.g. AWS Gateway, Postgres, BigQuery)
• You are not just a PowerPoint architect, but you work hands-on with development
• Enjoy sharing your ideas and continuously improve yourself and the team around you
• A great communicator, comfortable explaining complex concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.

**What we offer**
• We offer you a chance to be part of a truly amazing journey in a company that sets very high targets and works hard to achieve them. You will be able to work with smart, motivated and engaged co-workers from all over the world, in an intense and very energetic environment. This leads to you having a tangible impact on the way that we operate and expand our business.
• Some of the highlights of the package include:
• Strong technical culture of continuous innovation and improvement
• Chance to become a shareholder
• Flexible festive holidays, swap days off according to your values and beliefs.
• Work at one of our hub city offices or even remotely
• And much much more!