Reporting to Vice President, Engineering, the Software Architect is a key technical leadership position at Codeship.

Responsibilities

• Technical Architecture

• Serve as lead technologist of the Codeship engineering organization
• Own the overall architecture of Codeship software
• Provide leadership, make final decisions and build consensus around key technical direction, implementation, and architecture
• Ensure architecture and implementation meets current and future needs in terms of scale, user experience, and systems foundation
• Manage and mitigate the technical risks of the business
• Ensure the architecture scales with the business

• Technical execution of the product roadmap

• Technical planning of epics, including high level architecture, scope estimation and release planning
• Help ensure team is producing high-quality code as measured by test coverage, simplicity, and maintainability
• Identify and implement development process and methodology improvements
• Keep stakeholders apprised on status of planned work and work in progress
• Enable Marketing and Sales with information about product and technology
• Review architecture decisions and code changes

• Strategic technical direction

• Provide domain expertise in areas relevant to Codeship’s build platform, i.e. CI/CD, scalable software applications, or developer tooling
• Work with Product Management and customers to contribute to the strategic direction of the product and roadmap
• Contribute technical items to the product roadmap
• Feedback to Product Roadmap and Executive team on scope of roadmap items
• Actively participating in technology ecosystems important to Codeship
• Leadership on technical direction including decision-making on key technical items
• Make decisions involving the trade-offs between long and short term business needs

• External communication and marketing

• Strong preference for someone who can be an active voice in the development community
• Participation in or strong following/exposure to open source software initiatives
• Interest in contributing to or writing content relevant to our customers and ecosystem

Requirements

• 10+ years of hands on experience with architecting and building SaaS or cloud-based software systems at scale
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or technical degree with demonstrated experience
• Deep knowledge of solid software engineering principles: object-oriented design, algorithmic complexity, and software design patterns
• Detailed understanding of and experience with modern software engineering practice including testing, continuous integration and continuous delivery
• Previous experience with a continuous integration platform
• Experience with microservices / distributed systems
• Detailed understanding of operating systems, containerization and application delivery at scale
• Passion for building high-performing and fully automated systems
• Comfortable in a culture of fast iteration
• Experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery platforms
• Experience working with a remote/distributed team
• Strong communication, mediation, and leadership skills