Principal Software Architect

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom, +2 more countries.

📋 Description

• Design, develop, and implement scalable, production-quality services across the foundational Testlio software platform.

• Create architectural guidelines and reference frameworks that define domain boundaries and modularize the codebase into individual services.

• Collaborate with the Director of Engineering on consolidating frontend frameworks, enhancing operational performance, and ensuring observability.

• Plan for system efficiency, security, cost-effectiveness, and adherence to ISO 27001 standards.

• Incorporate secure AI/LLM patterns into customer-facing interfaces with operational safeguards and failure handling for the Quality API.

• Counsel executive, product, and engineering teams on significant technical decisions and convert business requirements into technical approaches.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 15 years of practical software development experience in creating cloud-native, mission-critical platforms.

• Advanced expertise in distributed system architectures, data modeling, event-driven design, and both relational and NoSQL database technologies.

• Demonstrated success in designing and transitioning application infrastructures from monolithic structures to modular services.

• Extensive experience in establishing enterprise-ready patterns in AWS, focusing on high availability, cost efficiency, and secure infrastructure.

• Strong knowledge of contemporary full-stack coding environments, including frontend web frameworks, scripting languages, and CI/CD pipelines.

• Hands-on, production-level experience in deploying AI/ML or LLM-based solutions with observable and safe automation practices.

• Proficiency in English.

• Excellent written and verbal communication abilities.

• Capacity to perform effectively as an individual contributor in dynamic, ambiguous settings.

• Strong collaboration and alignment capabilities, including the ability to guide distributed engineering teams without direct authority.

• Exceptional analytical thinking skills.

• Ability to communicate and document technical decisions asynchronously across different time zones globally.

🏝️ Benefits

• Fully remote and globally distributed work environment.

• Flexible paid time off, encompassing national holidays, personal days, and sick leave.

• Stock options.

• $300 annual learning stipend.

• Inclusive, purpose-driven culture.

• Tools and support for achieving career success in a fully remote environment.