Software Architect @ Tom Ferry - Santa Ana, CA

Main Responsibilities

• Work with the Product Engineering Group to advise, align, and streamline key decisions for shared technology in partnership with Engineering and Product management
• Own the forward-looking vision of the Illum software design, implementation, coding standards, collaborating proactively with other engineers and leadership on overall improvements to our engineering velocity, system reliability, code health, and more
• Advocate for the needs of the engineering organization, and ensure the engineering voice is heard as a first-class citizen in important strategic meetings across the business
• Design, develop and critique APIs, data models, controllers, and views. Ensure sound separation of Illum software platform to ensure maximum code-reuse, rapid development, non-blocking release pipelines, and design elegance
• Unifying our vision and aligning all engineers around a focused set of architectural principles by promoting rigorous and regular design documentation. Nurture a culture of design first thinking
• Key hands-on code laden ownership of a few crucial components of our technical stack
• Communicate effectively with cross-functional teams, engineers, Product Managers, and partners
• A key mentor and guide for engineers across engineering as a whole
• Participate in technical collaboration sessions
• Collaborate with the Product and Project Management to understand and contribute to the quarterly roadmap and resource planning
• Be clear, proactive and constructive in giving feedback and facilitating a culture of peer review

Required Experience and Background

• 8+ years of software engineering experience
• Strong system design skills
• Has experience designing commercial cloud applications at scale preferably in AWS.
• Experience across the entire software development lifecycle and stack, including infrastructure, frontend and backend
• Experience in technical people leadership and mentorship of junior engineers
• Experience working in diverse teams with varieties of professional backgrounds
• Commercial experience developing complex web applications
• Software Engineering or Computer Science (or related) education
• Has experience introducing and enforcing rigorous software development review practices
• Has written and reviewed design documents, and can champion and drive scalable and maintainable code practices
• Collaborative working style and the good written and verbal communication skills
• Language agnostic - has experience with a variety of languages and technologies
• Our code is currently mostly PHP/Javascript with a PostGres DB hosted on Heroku platform

Language Skills

Strong command of the English language and grammar. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organizations.

Computer and Technical Skills

Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications, including intermediate to advanced skills with Excel. Working experience with project management tools/software

Work Environment

Well-lighted, heated and/or air-conditioned indoor office setting with adequate ventilation.

The office work environment can be boisterous. Attire is business casual.

This position must be located in either California, Idaho, or Texas. Employees located in Boise, ID; Orange County, CA or Dallas, TX are in a hybrid work environment: Scheduled in-office Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday with the ability to work remotely Thursday/Friday. The hybrid schedule is subject to change based on the needs of the company.

Travel

Hardly ever. May be given the opportunity to travel overnight – by car or air – to experience or support various events – sometimes working in excess of eight (8) hours/day.Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job.

TOM FERRY IS AN EEO.

TOM FERRY PARTICIPATES E-VERIFY.

All offers are contingent upon receiving acceptable results from a pre-employment background check and drug test.

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