Surprise.com is on a mission to help people make a positive impact on
themselves, their teams, and their communities. Our flagship product, Surprise
for Teams™, is the world’s first and only SuccessOS™. Surprise for Teams makes
it fun and irresistible to perform better, which creates a positive, long-
lasting impact on people and their organizations.
We are currently looking for an experienced Chief Architect to join our team
and help us optimize our processes as we continue to scale rapidly in 2021.
Our ideal candidate will bring a track record of building high-quality
enterprise products, platforms, systems, and services that are highly
extensible, reliable, secure, and performant at scale. Ultimately, your
mission is to add business value and create competitive advantage for the
business through effective and efficient execution of product and technical
strategy.
What will you be doing?
* Architecting and designing new functional and non-functional subsystems of the product;
* Defining strategy for migration of existing parts of the product into microservices architecture;
* Creating the architecture and technical design of the system for scalability and ability handle high load (millions MOUs);
* Providing leadership and mentoring for technical leads;
* Providing insights on best technical solutions and practices, ensuring successful and efficient product development;
* Designing monitoring, reporting, and alerting systems across all infrastructure services;
* Assisting with problem management to increase response times, time to restore, and system availability;
* Assisting with implementation and/or redesign of AWS environments;
* Assisting with implementation and supporting of CI and CD stacks for development.
What are we looking for?
* 7+ year of experience in the software development industry;
* Extensive experience as a tech lead and/or architect;
* Proven experience developing backend architecture, including designing and implementation of CI/CD pipelines;
* Expert knowledge of any OOP language, Java and RoR would be a big advantage;
* Sprong exposure to AWS, Heroku, RDBMS, NoSQL;
* Technical proficiency in the scaling, security, and performance of enterprise applications, preferably with previous experience in consumer products;
* Experience working with globally distributed teams and managing other architects;
* Upper Intermediate English or higher (B2+).
What skills will come in handy?
* Being an analytical and creative thinker who can approach problems from a first-principles-based framework;
* Being an excellent communicator who can use compelling arguments to influence outcomes;
* Experience working in a high-growth, early-stage startup.
About Us
At Surprise.com, we’re committed to hiring builders who are inspired by our
team’s guiding principle: to derive a tremendous sense of purpose from the
inner quest for excellence itself, being driven from within to make anything
we touch be the best it can be. We take pride in developing deep user
understanding, obsess about the details, and go the extra mile to show our
users we love them. We are first and foremost customer driven – engineering,
product and design collaborate as equals to create a phenomenal end user
experience.
Benefits
* A team of extraordinary people, working hard to better themselves and further our mission;
* Competitive comp and equity;
* And, of course, we get Surprises internally.
