Remote Java/AI Architect

Key Responsibilities:

• 70% Delivery & Execution
• Collaborates and pairs with other product team members (UX, engineering, and product management) to create secure, reliable, scalable software solutions
• Documents, reviews and ensures that all quality and change control standards are met
• Writes custom code or scripts to automate infrastructure, monitoring services, and test cases
• Writes custom code or scripts to do "destructive testing" to ensure adequate resiliency in production
• Creates meaningful dashboards, logging, alerting, and responses to ensure that issues are captured and addressed proactively
• Contributes to enterprise-wide tools to drive destructive testing, automation, or engineering empowerment
• Identifies product enhancements (client-facing or technical) to create a better experience for the end users
• Identifies unsecured code areas and implements fixes as they are discovered with or without tooling
• Identifies, implements, and shares technical solutions that can be used across the organization
• Creates and architects foundational code elements that can be reused many times by a product
• Creates meaningful architecture diagrams and other documentation needed for security reviews or other interested parties
• Defines Service Level Objectives for product to constantly measure their reliability in production and help prioritize backlog work
• 20% Support & Enablement:
• Fields questions from other product teams or support teams
• Monitors tools and participates in conversations to encourage collaboration across product teams
• Provides application support for software running in production
• Proactively monitors production Service Level Objectives for products
• Works with vendors and the open-source community to help identify and implement feature enhancements in software products
• Works with other product teams to create API specifications and contracts for shared data
• Proactively reviews the performance and capacity of all aspects of production: code, infrastructure, data, and message processing
• Triages high priority issues and outages as they arise
• 10% Learning:
• Participates in and leads learning activities around modern software design and development core practices (communities of practice)
• Learns, through reading, tutorials, and videos, new technologies and best practices being used within other technology organizations
• Attends conferences and learns how to apply new technologies where appropriate

You can get further details about the nature of this opening, and what is expected from applicants, by reading the below.

Qualifications:

• 6-8 years of experience
• Mastery of a modern programming language such as Java, Python, or JavaScript/TypeScript
• Mastery of a modern web application framework such as Node.js
• Mastery of writing SQL queries against a relational database
• Mastery of a version control system (preferably Git)
• Proficient in modern front-end technologies and frameworks such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript/TypeScript, and ReactJS
• Proficient in a Linux or Unix based environment
• Proficient in a CI/CD toolchain and safe release practices such as feature flags and phased rollouts
• Proficient in test-driven development, effective unit test creation, and end-to-end test automation using modern testing methodologies and frameworks
• Proficient in destructive testing methodologies and tools
• Proficient in a cloud computing platform (preferably Google Cloud) and the associated automation patterns they provide
• Proficient in production systems design and defensive coding practices, including High Availability, Disaster Recovery, Performance, Efficiency, and Security
• Proficient in modern microservice-based architectures and methodologies, and in frameworks for building them such as Spring Boot
• Proficient in successful application of design patterns
• Proficient in a NoSQL database
• Proficient in query optimization and troubleshooting
• Proficient in effective data modeling within both SQL and NoSQL databases
• Proficient in designing and implementing RESTful and GraphQL APIs, including GraphQL services that aggregate data from many upstream services
• Experience working with 12-factor methodology and understanding its benefits, and able to demonstrate appropriate patterns to more junior team members
• Experience building or integrating generative AI and LLM-based services, such as agent-based workflows (Vertex AI/Gemini a plus)
• Experience using AI-assisted tools across the product development lifecycle, and coaching other engineers to use them effectively
• Experience with front-end performance optimization (bundle size, load time) and production observability and monitoring

Exact compensation may vary based on several factors, including skills, experience, and education. xuwmhxw

Remote working/work at home options are available for this role.