Remote Senior Technical Architect

Description:

• As a Senior Technical Architect at IOG, you will be responsible for the technical strategy and direction of one or more products, ensuring a full understanding of the product from a technical perspective.
• You will design and deliver new features, communicate with stakeholders, and educate them on the implications of technical decisions.
• Your role involves coordinating and communicating effectively, as well as crafting key components such as libraries and infrastructure to maintain architecture quality.
• Providing technical leadership to development teams, delegating tasks, and ensuring scalability and architectural coherence are key responsibilities.
• You will make decisions on new languages and libraries, including training and usage standards, and manage technical debt pragmatically to deliver high-quality products within deadlines.

Requirements:

• Set out best practices and ensure software engineering principles are followed.
• Define and document technical and architectural visions for products, libraries, or components.
• Design technical solutions for business requirements and document their effectiveness objectively.
• Break down solutions into smaller tasks with clear acceptance criteria and short completion times, clarifying technical nuances.
• Mentor, influence, and lead teams of software engineers, including line management duties.
• Hold a degree in Computer Science/Engineering (advanced degree preferred) with a minimum of 5 years of industrial/commercial development experience.
• Demonstrate strong commercial awareness and business focus, with at least 2 years of leadership in component or product level architecture.
• Possess knowledge of decentralized application architectures, functional and object-oriented programming paradigms, modern software engineering approaches, and selected programming languages (e.g., Rust, Scala, Javascript).
• Have experience working with scientists, researchers, and formal methods specialists, as well as practical experience with Agile software development methods.
• Exhibit aptitude in writing architecture specifications and executive summaries, facilitating technical discussions, managing time effectively, problem-solving, teaching concepts, coding, clear communication, and decision-making.

Benefits:

• Remote work option available.
• Reimbursement for laptops.
• New starter package to purchase hardware essentials like headphones and monitors.
• Opportunities for learning and development.
• Competitive Paid Time Off (PTO) policy.