Technical Java / Golang Architect

Role: Technical Java/Golang Architect
Location: Remote "Should be in Portland ME, San Francisco Bay Area CA, Dallas TX, Washington DC, Chicago IL Must be local to these areas"
Duration: Direct Hire (Full-time)

Job Description:

• TAG responsible for virtual card management
• Handle card authorizations for purchase
• Currently, a monolithic app that is old, slow and complicated to make improvements
• Millions of transactions happening concurrently
• Cannot get to all authorization real time (with current tech)
• Working on the blueprint to move to a modernized, microservices based application next year this architect will be leading the new design and decisions
• Important to understand DB concurrency have millions of transaction happening at once, need to handle customer balances real time,
• Lead will be over 4 teams (2 in Brazil, 1 Australia, 1 US) to guide from a technical/architectural standpoint (no people management)

Lead/Architect:

• Act as technical lead on TAG projects for 4 teams
• Will jump from team to team (project/project) to review business problems, where are the bottlenecks, and provide an architectural/design solution
• Mentor engineers on team
• Looking for architects that can
• Lead blueprint and planning and then partner with teams to implement solutions

Must Haves:

• Architecture background leading decisions on software architecture, decision making for tools/tech
• Golang development
• If no, Golang will need to learn Golang and should have examples of when they have had to learn new technologies in the past
• Cloud experience preference for AWS
• NoSQL DB preference for MongoDB
• General understanding and working knowledge with testing, DevOps, releases