About the role
Storable is looking for a Software Architect who is passionate about designing and building high quality software and playing a crucial role in evolving the Architecture to deliver on our vision of a unified platform.
How is this different from other software engineering jobs?
As the leading provider of technology solutions in the self-storage industry, we are creating innovative experiences for our customers that help them run better businesses than ever before. You should be passionate about building the right solutions and be comfortable working in an open-ended, dynamic environment where roles are flexible and communication is essential. This is a great opportunity for you to join a team that encourages innovation, creativity, teamwork, professional growth, and advancement.
What you’ll be doing
- You will be responsible for outlining the architectural and technical direction of Storable’s consumer-facing products
- As a member of the Architecture team, you will work with other Architects to ensure that technology solutions align with long-term product, security, and enterprise visions and roadmaps
- You will lead cross-product discussions and drive alignment on technology strategy
- You will drive innovation around engineering principles and practices, identifying improvements and ideas, and driving their adoption across the organization
- You will evaluate technical issues and initiatives, work with teams to recommend solutions that align with the Architectural direction, and guide teams during implementation
- You will collaborate with product and engineering team leads to translate business objectives into clear problem statements and system requirements
- You embrace ambiguity and work towards bringing clarity to the roadmap in collaboration with the Consumer Group Product and Engineering Managers
- You will define standard software engineering/architecture practices at an Organisational level
- You must be a strong team leader. You enjoy mentoring and collaboration across engineering and product teams
What you need to bring to the table
- Strong hands-on coding experience with 10+ years in consumer web development technologies and architectures
- Track record for effectively aligning large organizations on long-term technical visions and for leading teams of senior engineers to successfully execute a multi-quarter technical vision
- Familiarity with architectural patterns of highly scalable enterprise service design, including monitoring, analytics, and reliability engineering
- Strong understanding of cloud technologies (AWS, Kubernetes) and passion for adopting DevOps practices (CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code)
- Extensive experience designing and developing React and NodeJS applications acrossmultiple development teams
- Exposure to microservice & asynchronous event-based architectures
- Experience designing and maintaining globally distributed, large-scale systems
- Experience with server-side technologies and track record of identifying performance bottlenecks and outlining remedies (caching, asynchronous processing, parallelization techniques)
- Deep understanding of REST API design principles and practices
- Experience with cloud configuration and deployment technologies
- Experience with Agile software development practices