Lead software architecture for scalable, resilient, high-availability enterprise systems across multiple domains. Apply AWS cloud architecture, guide technology choices, collaborate with customers and founders, mentor engineering teams, establish engineering best practices, and contribute to India leadership and business growth while remaining technically engaged.
Work Location: Bengaluru, India
Reporting to: Director of Engineering
Experience: 10+ years
Responsibilities
You like to roll up your sleeves to solve problems of any size and domain. You are passionate about delivering game-changing value and love mentoring and coaching super-smart engineers.
As a Software Architect at Kickdrum, you will:
- Be an engineering leader with deep technical expertise working at the core of everything we build
- Get to work across several business domains such as Logistics, Healthcare, IoT, etc.
- Apply cloud architecture using AWS to power great user experiences for web, mobile, and desktop enterprise applications
- Work closely with our founders to design and deliver game-changing value to our customers and users
- Work with our customers to finalize architecture and technology choices
- Lead an exceptional team of smart and driven engineers as their coach and guru
- Be part of the Kickdrum India Leadership team to strategize and grow Kickdrum’s footprint in India in terms of people, business, and products
- Be exposed to all aspects of running a business while still staying technical
You’d make a great Software Architect at Kickdrum if you are:
- Experienced in architecting and building high-availability enterprise-grade systems with at least a decade of industry experience
- Ready to roll up your sleeves to solve business and technology problems of any size and domain (Please note: We don't want you coding regularly, but we want you capable of coding if/when needed on something new or complex)
- Passionate about applying a design-driven approach to problem-solving
- An advocate of delivering game-changing value to our customers and users
- Extremely passionate about code reviews, engineering best practices, and mentoring/coaching engineers to make them successful
- Love being in charge of designing and architecting original and innovative multi-layered, complex, highly scalable, and resilient systems
- Experienced in effectively working with remote/hybrid teams
- Obsessed with customer success and a complete sense of ownership and accountability
- A cloud expert with a mastery of AWS
Kickdrum Bengaluru, Karnataka, IND Office
RN Chambers, 2nd floor, Koramangala 3rd Block, Bengaluru, India, 560034
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