Software Architect

Responsibilities

• Define and guide the platform’s architectural strategy toward cloud-native and event-driven architecture.
• Partner with engineering managers, product leaders, and senior engineers to align technical decisions with customer and business priorities.
• Evaluate tradeoffs involving scalability, performance, reliability, security, maintainability, and user experience.
• Provide technical leadership for modernization initiatives and incremental migration efforts.
• Design and review architecture for complex features, services, integrations, and platform capabilities.
• Mentor engineers and strengthen technical judgment across the team without relying on direct authority.
• Establish engineering standards, patterns, and practices that improve quality and consistency.
• Guide adoption of automated testing, continuous delivery, observability, and operational readiness.
• Partner with teams on AI-assisted development practices and potential AI-enabled product capabilities.
• Communicate architectural recommendations and technical tradeoffs to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Successfully complete a fingerprint background check in accordance with CJIS requirements.

Requirements

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, including significant experience designing and delivering production software systems.
• Strong technical foundation in .NET and C# and experience with established systems and modernization efforts.
• Experience designing or evolving event-driven and distributed architectures.
• Experience building or operating systems in AWS using cloud-native design principles.
• Experience designing APIs, service integrations, and scalable backend systems.
• Strong understanding of relational databases, data modeling, system performance, automated testing, continuous delivery, observability, and secure development.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code, containerization, or cloud deployment patterns.
• Ability to make decisions amid ambiguity and clearly communicate technical tradeoffs.
• Experience mentoring engineers and influencing technical direction without direct authority.
• Experience using AI tools to improve engineering workflows, quality, and outcomes.
• Preferred experience leading platform modernization or incremental production migrations.
• Preferred experience with iOS, Android, Windows, cross-platform mobile development, Angular, React, public-sector systems, public safety, or regulated environments.

Benefits

• Primarily in-office work with hybrid flexibility and an expectation of at least three days per week in the office.
• Fingerprint background check required in accordance with CJIS requirements.