Software Architect
Job Summary
Job Description
As a Software Architect at Super.com, you'll be the most senior technical individual contributor, leading the resolution of complex technical challenges across frontend and backend development. You will define the long-term technology roadmap and guide engineering efforts to achieve user and business impact. This role requires expertise in React, Python, Node microservices, AWS, Kubernetes, and more. Responsibilities include overseeing technical direction, mentoring engineers, driving architectural change, contributing to OKR planning, and ensuring sustainable development practices. You will work autonomously, directing your efforts to the highest-leverage tasks.
Must have:
- 5+ years as Staff Engineer or above
- Staff-level coding skills in full-stack web dev
- Senior expertise in JS and Python
- Deep expertise in full-stack web development and system design
- Experience leading major projects and working with complex codebases
- Experience mentoring senior engineers
- Experience owning and debugging production services
12 skills required
Job Details
About Super.com
We started Super.com to help maximize lives–both the lives of our customers and the lives of our employees– so that everyone can experience all that life has to offer. For our employees, our promise is that Super.com is more than just a job; it’s an opportunity to unlock one’s potential, where learning is celebrated and impact is realized.
We are more than a fast-paced, high-growth tech company; we care about our people and take career progression seriously. This is your career and our aim is to supercharge it through the people, the work, and the programs that fuel who we are.
About this team
Super.com engineering has four full-stack product development focus areas: fintech, travel, earnings, and a superapp membership program to unite them all. Between them, our dozens of microservices and event-driven architecture handle 1000s of requests and events per second, ingest over 1TB of data per day and process over $1MM per day in sales. We have 80 engineers across our product development and infrastructure teams. We work in close partnership with Product Managers, Designers, and QA in an agile, fast-paced scaleup environment that respects work/life harmony.
About this role
As a Software Architect you will be the most senior technical individual contributor in our company. You will be the point person for solving the most difficult technical challenges our engineering org faces spanning frontend and backend web development as well as system architecture. You will drive our long-term technology roadmap and how to best leverage engineering to drive user and business impact in our fintech, travel, earnings, and membership products. You will predominantly work with React on the frontend, and a combination of Python and Node microservices on the backend. Other technologies you’ll work with include Gitlab, AWS, Kubernetes, Postgres, Redis, Datadog, Amplitude, and Snowflake. You will report to the engineering department head, and play a key role on our “techxecutive” team.
Challenges you'll solve
- Oversee the technical direction for engineering org full-stack web development projects and system architecture
- Raise the bar for engineering through mentorship, leading by example, and contributing to technical decision making and guilds
- Tackle high-priority, high-impact, and ambitious initiatives to propel our company and technical excellence forward, getting your hands dirty with POCs and working with others to productionize
- Report into the engineering department head, but work largely self-directed and autonomously. Your role will be versatile, making use of your judgment to direct your efforts to the highest leverage use of your time in any given week
- Contribute to quarterly OKR planning and brainstorming to ensure we are prioritizing technical initiatives to improve engineering productivity and architecture robustness
- Help ensure our engineering teams strike the right balance between building quickly and building sustainably, and build vs. buy decision making
About You
- Highly motivated, interested in wearing multiple hats, and looking forward to working in a fast-paced scaleup environment with an emphasis on delivering business value
- Still highly technical and have at least staff-level coding skills at this point in your career
- A positive / enthusiastic person who enjoys solving problems, not just identifying them
- Strong technical and non-technical communication skills
- Get excited about leading cross-team technical discussions and driving architectural change progressively and through influence
- 5+ years experience as a Staff Engineer or above (including CTO), working on full-stack web development
- At least staff level coding ability and intuition for full-stack web development
- At least senior depth in JS and Python
- Deep expertise in full-stack web development, system design, and using modern web technologies & cloud-based infrastructure
- Have been a technical lead (not necessarily people lead) for shipping major projects, and have worked with multiple complex codebases and across teams
- Have mentored senior engineers, and look forward to continuing to do so
- Have experience owning, monitoring, and debugging production services, including high QPS services
- Have worked in a startup or scaleup environment
We Believe in Equal Opportunity
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process. If needed, please notify our Talent Acquisition Partner.
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