Job Description
<p style="text-align:start; text-indent:0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width:0px"><span style="font-size:small"><span style="color:#222222"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="font-variant-caps:normal"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="letter-spacing:normal"><span style="orphans:2"><span style="text-transform:none"><span style="widows:2"><span style="word-spacing:0px"><span style="white-space:normal"><span style="background-color:#ffffff"><span style="text-decoration-thickness:initial"><span style="text-decoration-style:initial"><span style="text-decoration-color:initial"><b><u><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Title: Senior Software Architect</span></span></span></u></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:start; text-indent:0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width:0px"><span style="font-size:small"><span style="color:#222222"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="font-variant-caps:normal"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="letter-spacing:normal"><span style="orphans:2"><span style="text-transform:none"><span style="widows:2"><span style="word-spacing:0px"><span style="white-space:normal"><span style="background-color:#ffffff"><span style="text-decoration-thickness:initial"><span style="text-decoration-style:initial"><span style="text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Reporting to: CTO</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:start; text-indent:0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width:0px"><span style="font-size:small"><span style="color:#222222"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="font-variant-caps:normal"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="letter-spacing:normal"><span style="orphans:2"><span style="text-transform:none"><span style="widows:2"><span style="word-spacing:0px"><span style="white-space:normal"><span style="background-color:#ffffff"><span style="text-decoration-thickness:initial"><span style="text-decoration-style:initial"><span style="text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Required experience: 8+ yrs. Multiple projects on different stacks.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:start; text-indent:0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width:0px"><span style="font-size:small"><span style="color:#222222"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="font-variant-caps:normal"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="letter-spacing:normal"><span style="orphans:2"><span style="text-transform:none"><span style="widows:2"><span style="word-spacing:0px"><span style="white-space:normal"><span style="background-color:#ffffff"><span style="text-decoration-thickness:initial"><span style="text-decoration-style:initial"><span style="text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Location: Bangalore.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<h3 style="text-align:start; text-indent:0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width:0px; margin-bottom:5px"><span style="color:#222222"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="font-variant-caps:normal"><span style="letter-spacing:normal"><span style="orphans:2"><span style="text-transform:none"><span style="widows:2"><span style="word-spacing:0px"><span style="white-space:normal"><span style="background-color:#ffffff"><span style="text-decoration-thickness:initial"><span style="text-decoration-style:initial"><span style="text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="color:#434343"><span style="font-weight:normal">What you will do!</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></h3>
<ul style="color:#222222; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:small; font-style:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-weight:400; letter-spacing:normal; orphans:2; text-align:start; text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; widows:2; word-spacing:0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width:0px; white-space:normal; background-color:#ffffff; text-decoration-thickness:initial; text-decoration-style:initial; text-decoration-color:initial" type="disc">
<li style="color:black; vertical-align:baseline; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; margin-left:15px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Spearhead building of the new transformation backend platform from 0 to 1</span></span></li>
<li style="color:black; vertical-align:baseline; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; margin-left:15px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Design the software for all its stakeholders - its end-users, developers, technical and product support, and DevOps</span></span></li>
<li style="color:black; vertical-align:baseline; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; margin-left:15px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Evaluate technical/architectural options and tradeoffs.</span></span></li>
<li style="color:black; vertical-align:baseline; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; margin-left:15px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Implement proof-of-concepts. Hands-on.</span></span></li>
<li style="color:black; vertical-align:baseline; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; margin-left:15px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Create a solutions/design pattern library for similar problems and advocate them</span></span></li>
<li style="color:black; vertical-align:baseline; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; margin-left:15px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Provide technical leadership and guide development teams</span></span></li>
<li style="color:black; vertical-align:baseline; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; margin-left:15px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Setup best practices for design, coding, testing, security, monitoring, and release management</span></span></li>
<li style="color:black; vertical-align:baseline; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; margin-left:15px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Interface with cloud, and customers’ technical teams</span></span></li>
<li style="color:black; vertical-align:baseline; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; margin-left:15px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Measuring and constantly improving developer productivity</span></span></li>
<li style="color:black; vertical-align:baseline; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; margin-left:15px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Work with product managers to build application extensibility into the design</span></span></li>
<li style="color:black; vertical-align:baseline; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; margin-left:15px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Occasional project management when a project is more technical focused</span></span></li>
<li style="color:black; vertical-align:baseline; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; margin-left:15px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Occasional people management in the absence of other senior leaders</span></span></li>
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<h3 style="text-align:start; text-indent:0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width:0px; margin-bottom:5px"><span style="color:#222222"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="font-variant-caps:normal"><span style="letter-spacing:normal"><span style="orphans:2"><span style="text-transform:none"><span style="widows:2"><span style="word-spacing:0px"><span style="white-space:normal"><span style="background-color:#ffffff"><span style="text-decoration-thickness:initial"><span style="text-decoration-style:initial"><span style="text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="color:#434343"><span style="font-weight:normal">What do we look for?</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></h3>
<ul style="color:#222222; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:small; font-style:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-weight:400; letter-spacing:normal; orphans:2; text-align:start; text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; widows:2; word-spacing:0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width:0px; white-space:normal; background-color:#ffffff; text-decoration-thickness:initial; text-decoration-style:initial; text-decoration-color:initial" type="disc">
<li style="color:black; vertical-align:baseline; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; margin-left:15px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Proven experience with full development life cycle for large-scale software products</span></span></li>
<li style="color:black; vertical-align:baseline; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; margin-left:15px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Clear communication, decision-making, understanding and explaining trade-offs</span></span></li>
<li style="color:black; vertical-align:baseline; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; margin-left:15px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Engineering best practices - code quality, testability, security, release management</span></span></li>
<li style="color:black; vertical-align:baseline; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; margin-left:15px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Good knowledge of performance, scalability, software architecture, networking</span></span></li>
<li style="color:black; vertical-align:baseline; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; margin-left:15px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Capacity to think in abstract and also obsess about details</span></span></li>
<li style="color:black; vertical-align:baseline; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; margin-left:15px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Experience designing microservices architecture</span></span></li>
<li style="color:black; vertical-align:baseline; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; margin-left:15px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Strong bent on engineering culture and focused on improving the developer experience</span></span></li>
<li style="color:black; vertical-align:baseline; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; margin-left:15px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Self-managed and motivated</span></span></li>
<li style="color:black; vertical-align:baseline; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; margin-left:15px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Capacity to break complex problems and work on abstract problems</span></span></li>
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<h3 style="text-align:start; text-indent:0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width:0px; margin-bottom:5px"><span style="color:#222222"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="font-variant-caps:normal"><span style="letter-spacing:normal"><span style="orphans:2"><span style="text-transform:none"><span style="widows:2"><span style="word-spacing:0px"><span style="white-space:normal"><span style="background-color:#ffffff"><span style="text-decoration-thickness:initial"><span style="text-decoration-style:initial"><span style="text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="color:#434343"><span style="font-weight:normal">What will enable your growth?</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></h3>
<ul style="color:#222222; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:small; font-style:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-weight:400; letter-spacing:normal; orphans:2; text-align:start; text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; widows:2; word-spacing:0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width:0px; white-space:normal; background-color:#ffffff; text-decoration-thickness:initial; text-decoration-style:initial; text-decoration-color:initial" type="disc">
<li style="color:black; vertical-align:baseline; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; margin-left:15px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Outcome driven.</span></span></li>
<li style="color:black; vertical-align:baseline; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; margin-left:15px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Metrics oriented.</span></span></li>
<li style="color:black; vertical-align:baseline; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; margin-left:15px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Consistently delivering collective success.</span></span></li>
<li style="color:black; vertical-align:baseline; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; margin-left:15px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Developer advocate and engineering cultural savant</span></span></li>
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