Principal/Architect

Roberts Recruiting•Boston, MA

About The Position

Our Engineering team is adding speed and capacity by hiring talented engineers such as you. Alongside our agile teams, the Head of Development and our CTO, you'll be working with innovative technologies, processes and people to architect our Enterprise SaaS web application: Merchandising Cloud. Our vision is to provide the most robust platform in the world for two way collaboration between a company's headquarters and their retail stores. You will provide technical and architect-level guidance to our technical leads and their teams as they design and develop key feature enhancements involving image recognition, machine learning, analytics, 3D visualizations and other innovative technologies. This is a senior position for a self-motivated engineer that has done this before and relishes the opportunity to do it again. We are committed to developing software solutions that ensure the highest reliability, performance and user engagement for our clients.

Requirements

A talented, senior level engineer with a strong sense of pace and urgency
Someone with a proven track record of being the “go to” technology expert
Deep and wide knowledge of open source technology and technology trends
A self-motivated individual with a deep sense of pride in your work
An effective collaborator with excellent verbal and written communications skills
Client facing experience crafting solutions to real problems
Working towards a B.S/M.S. in Computer Science or equivalent discipline
8+ years engineering experience that includes architecting, designing, and developing enterprise scale web applications
Experience in building systems with high performance, security, scalability and reliance
Experience communicating with users, clients, other technical teams, and project management to understand requirements and describe software product features and technical designs
Experience working with agile software development methodologies and key best practices
Expert level knowledge of Git and relevant unit test frameworks
Experience with public clouds such as AWS and Azure

Nice To Haves

Experience with one or more of the following: Machine learning and big data
Real time processing technologies
BI tools
Ruby on Rails
React
CI/CD pipelines
NOSQL technologies

Responsibilities

Architect, design, and develop software solutions that are functional, well tested, maintainable, efficient, elegant and adhere to best practices
Analyze user needs and scope out technical and functional requirements to meet those needs
Specify technical solutions in clear and concise written documentation
Provide technical leadership, ensuring engineers understand our strategy and vision
Collaborate across multiple agile teams with the Technical Leads, Developers, Testers, the Product Owner and UX Design teams
Contribute as a senior level developer to projects requiring a high level of technical expertise, industry experience and product domain knowledge
Represent us to clients and external partners as a technical expert
Meet with clients to understand their needs and propose solutions that meet those needs
Investigate and recommend new technologies, processes, and techniques to enhance Merchandising Cloud
Mentor and guide other engineering team members in both technology and technique