Architect

Care.com • Salt Lake City, UT

4h • Hybrid

About The Position

Care.com is a consumer tech company with heart. We’re on a mission to solve a human challenge we all face: finding great care for the ones we love. We’re moms and dads and pet parents. We have parents and grandparents so we understand that everyone, at some point in their lives, could use a helping hand. Our culture and our products reflect that. Care.com offers an array of services that enable families to find, manage and pay for care and provide employment opportunities for caregivers. Our engineering organization is reimagining our tech stacks and consolidating to a single cloud native platform so we can test and learn faster. The new platform is composed of gRPC microservices and Lambdas in Go, Kafka streams, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch, GraphQL, and micro-frontends on Node and React. We're utilizing industry best practices and tools like OpenTelemetry, Splunk, Github, SignalFX, Figma, and others to make our lives easier. Here, entrepreneurs, self-starters, team players, and big thinkers unite behind a common cause. Here, we’re applying data analytics, AI, and the latest technologies to solve universal problems and connect people in new ways. If you like having autonomy, if you thrive on collaboration and building new things, and if you’re all about using your talent for good, Care.com is the place for you. We are seeking a highly motivated individual to join the Technology team as an Architect. The candidate would join a small, agile team responsible for building our fulfillment platform. The candidate will be responsible for the analysis, design, programming, testing, documentation, and implementation of new product features. Design and develop an extremely high-volume, fault-tolerant, scalable distributed system that uses technologies such as: Java and J2EE technologies Golang microservices deployed on Kubernetes with an Istio service mesh gRPC and GraphQL APIs AWS Lambdas AWS Step Functions & Express Workflows Amazon EventBridge AWS DynamoDB Postgres AWS Cloud Development Kit Kafka Elasticsearch

Requirements

• 10+ years of professional engineering experience
• 8+ years of deep experience designing and building high-volume, fault-tolerant, scalable distributed systems, with significant expertise in Java, Golang, or comparable backend technologies.
• BS or MS in Computer Science or a similar engineering discipline
• Experience with Microservices architecture is required.
• AWS experience is required, including knowledge of serverless technologies (Lambdas, DynamoDB, EventBridge) and container orchestration (Kubernetes/Istio).
• Experience leading a team (team/tech lead) and acting as a design authority or system architect for large-scale production projects.
• Ability to thrive as part of a multi-site development team

Responsibilities

• Work with stakeholders in product management to understand business requirements
• Work with other disciplines to drive cross-functional efforts
• Shape development processes to promote a high-quality output while continuing to iterate quickly
• Own and review deliverables for accuracy, quality, performance, and completeness
• Work with team to create architecture and design documents, project timeline, and user stories
• Ability to lead and manage a globally distributed development team
• Mentor and guide the professional and technical development of members of the team

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level