Software Engineer

We are looking for an exceptional System Architect to lead the design and evolution of our platform architecture. This is a hands-on role requiring deep technical expertise in building secure, scalable, and cost-efficient systems. You will be responsible for critical architectural decisions affecting system performance, security, reliability, and modularity across our entire platform. In this role, you will also be responsible to: Architecture & Design - Design microservices and platform features from concept to production-ready specifications - Create technical designs for complex system components and develop proof-of-concepts in Golang - Architect secure, fault-tolerant systems with automated failover, circuit breakers, and end-to-end encryption - Analyze existing system architecture to understand current implementations and plan gradual replacement of legacy components - Plan implementation phases, migration strategies, and feature deprecation timelines Architectural Governance & Collaboration - Review and approve architectural designs from engineering teams with detailed feedback - Lead architecture review sessions and facilitate technical decision-making across teams - Partner with Product Managers, Dev Leads, Security, SRE and Infrastructure teams to establish platform-wide standards - Lead threat modeling exercises and drive technical consensus for platform-wide initiatives - Mentor engineers on architectural best practices and resolve complex technical challenges Documentation & Planning - Write comprehensive technical documentation including ADRs, design documents, runbooks, and API specifications - Create visual system diagrams and research technical solutions from diverse sources - Design zero-downtime migration strategies and define acceptance criteria for architectural changes Requirements Qualifications / Experience / Technical Skills - 8+ years building scalable distributed systems, with 3+ years in System/Platform Architect roles - Proven experience architecting both large microservice environments (100+ services) and monolithic applications - Strong hands-on Golang coding skills - must write production-quality code - Communication & Data: Protocol Buffers, gRPC, WebSockets, Kafka event streaming, PostgreSQL (partitioning, replication, HA) - Security & Authentication: OAuth 2.0/OIDC, JWT, mTLS, data encryption, public key cryptography, zero-trust architecture - Infrastructure & Operations: Working knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), distributed systems patterns (Saga, circuit breakers, retries) - Scale: Experience with systems handling millions of requests/events per day - Exceptional technical writing and communication abilities for diverse audiences - Experience planning phased implementations and leading complex cross-team projects - Proven track record with feature flags, gradual rollouts, and zero-downtime deployments - Ability to facilitate architectural decision-making and create technical roadmaps - Mentorship mindset and cost analysis capabilities - Experience with AI-assisted workflows, particularly in system analysis and hunting for inconsistencies and corner cases. Nice to Have - Additional Languages: Ruby, Rust, Python, Java, C++, Kotlin-multiplatform - Advanced Security: Key Management Systems (HSM, AWS KMS), Secrets Management (Vault), specific crypto algorithms - Extended Infrastructure: Service mesh (Istio, Linkerd), NoSQL databases, Redis clustering, stream processing (Flink, Spark) - Cloud & Compliance: AWS/GCP/Azure expertise, PCI-DSS, HIPAA, SOC2 - Community: Open source contributions, conference speaking, technical writing