Application Architect

A rapidly-growing company that is developing world-class trading technology to help customers invest seamlessly is looking for an Application Architect. The selected candidate will be in charge of monitoring the development team's progress to make sure they adhere to the original concept, development philosophies, and delivery dates. The company’s innovative trading platform is tailor-made to suit all types of investment needs and experience levels. This position requires at least 4 hours of overlap with the GMT+4 time zone. 

Job Responsibilities:

• Develop, create, and put into effect architectural best practices for platforms with high availability, performance, scalability, and fault tolerance.
• Analyze current applications, pinpoint areas for development, and create optimization plans
• Participate in product management by hearing what the company needs are and addressing them. in favor of a technology strategy
• Conduct talks about design and have a say in key decision-makers choices about deployment topologies, scaling, performance, and sizing
• Implement PoCs (Proof of Concepts) and standardize software delivery to participate in the technology evaluation process. implementing good DevOps practices
• Monitor the development team's progress to make sure it adheres to the original concept, development philosophies, and delivery dates.
• Showcase a thorough understanding of the SOLID design concepts, modeling techniques, and principles of software quality assurance
• Efficiently review code and give developers technical advice or coaching
• Develop and keep up with the documentation needed for software, such as technical specifications, design documents, and test plans.
• Secure the overall performance of the application stack as well as the quality and fit of the technological solution

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Engineering, IT, or Computer Science (or equivalent experience)
• At least 5+ years of relevant experience as an application architect
• At least 14+ years of engineering experience
• At least 5+ years of experience creating, architecting, and suggesting solution architecture across multiple platforms (Web, Android & iOS)
• Knowledge of software development, algorithm design, and data structures
• Experience with AWS cloud, Apache Kafka, Kubernetes, Java 8+, and Spring framework
• Working knowledge of Maven, Jenkins, Chef, etc. in continuous integration
• Prolific experience with Hibernate, React Native, SQL/NoSQL DBs, REST/RESTful APIs, and microservices architecture
• Demonstrable experience in agile methodology, quality assurance procedures, and software testing techniques
• Experience working in dynamic, complex situations with multi-vendor, multi-culture, distributed offshore and onshore development teams
• In-depth knowledge of trading, brokerage, or financial platforms 
• Strong analytical and detail-oriented problem-solving abilities
• Good communicator with a command of English