FastSpring is looking for ahands-onSoftware Architect to join our high-impact Payments team. Software Architects are responsible for architecting, prototyping and delivering our industry-leading full-service eCommerce platform.
Responsibilities
- Work directly with Product Management and Engineering leaders to define the technical requirements for high-level company initiatives for our highly available payment processing, subscription billing, and reporting platform
- Investigate and prototype new technical areas such as development frameworks, reporting, deployment tools, infrastructure, and other greenfield areas
- Identify complex problems and advocate solving them as a part of the overall roadmap.
- Break requirements into written phased development that can be developed and deployed by multiple teams
- Provide best practice leadership across our agile software development teams to design and develop product features. Including; design, frameworks, security and unit testing
- Using strong project management skills leads development projects ensuring they stay on track. Provide progress updates to all levels of the organization
- Ensure a robust software delivery process through clear procedures as well as automated build, test, and deployment capabilities
- Reduce time to market by decomposing large feature requirements into small development tasks suitable for incremental releases
- Provide design and code review with other team members to ensure best practices are being followed
- Mentor junior members of the development team
- Flexible hours to work with remote team members on feedback and requirements
- Respond to production issues and apply continuous improvement techniques to fully resolve them
Qualifications
- Payments experience is a MUST.
- Highly proficient in coding, debugging and optimization – we want to learn at least one thing from you every month.
- Design that scales, is resilient and focuses on end-to-end observability for globally growing SaaS solution using Java, AWS and industry standard tools (Confluence, Sumo etc)
- Sense of Urgency – we are scaling and believe in iterative, progressive delivery. You will tremendously succeed if you are a leader who can accelerate the first line of code to production safely, learn from customer behavior and make it better.
- Strong Data modeling and SQL/NoSQL experience with real life knowledge of System Design Patterns (e.g., caching, queuing, dead letter queue, idempotency, safety- vs. liveness etc)
- 10+ years of experience
- Proven ability to communicate and lead in a hybrid or remote environment.
Benefits, Perks, Health & Wellness:
Consistent with FastSpring’s values and applicable law, we provide the following information to promote pay transparency and equity. The base pay range below represents a good faith estimate of the low and high end base pay range for the listed position. This role may be eligible for the corporate bonus plan (or, if a sales role, a commission plan as defined in the sales incentive plan document). In addition, FastSpring provides a variety of benefits to employees.
Estimated Base Pay Range $170,000-$195,000 USD
About the Company:
FastSpring is an EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY/AFFIRMATIVE ACTION employer. Candidates are considered for employment with FastSpring without regard to their race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender, pregnancy, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, military status, veteran status (specifically status as a disabled veteran, special disabled veteran, Vietnam Era veteran, recently separated veteran, armed forces service medal veteran, or other protected veteran) or other classification protected by applicable federal, state or local law.