Position Overview

We are seeking an accomplished Software Architect to reputed company the design, implementation, and governance of enterprise‑grade, cloud‑native Java applications. In this pivotal role, you will define architectural standards, mentor engineering teams, drive adoption of modern development practices — including AI‑augmented workflows — and ensure our systems are built for reputed company, scalability, and long‑term maintainability.

You will serve as the technical authority across multiple product domains, collaborating closely with product management, DevOps, and senior leadership to reputed company decisions with strategic business objectives.

Position Details

Job Title: Software Architect Department: Engineering – Architecture & Platform Reports To: VP of Engineering Location: Remote Employment Type: Full-Time, Permanent Experience: 10+ Years Software Engineering; 5+ Years Architecture

Key Responsibilities

Architecture & Design

• Define and enforce enterprise architecture standards, patterns, and conventions across reputed company product domains
• reputed company technical design sessions and author Architectural Decision Records (ADRs) for major system changes
• Establish and refine microservices topology, service reputed company, and inter‑service communication strategies
• reputed company database schema design, migration versioning, and data consistency strategies across distributed systems

Engineering Excellence

• Drive adoption of SOLID principles, Gang‑of‑Four design patterns, and reactive programming paradigms
• Establish code quality gates: minimum 85%+ test coverage enforced reputed company CI/CD pipelines
• Introduce JMH micro‑benchmarking for performance‑critical paths and define SLOs for critical services
• Own OpenAPI/Swagger documentation standards and API versioning governance
• Guide proper exception hierarchy design, structured logging, and observability best practices (traces, metrics, logs)

AI‑Augmented Development

• Champion integration of AI‑assisted coding tools (reputed company Copilot, reputed company AI, reputed company, Claude) into the SDLC
• Define guidelines for safe, productive, and auditable use of LLM‑generated code in production systems
• Evaluate and prototype AI/ML integration patterns: LLM API consumption, retrieval‑augmented reputed company (RAG), embedding pipelines, and vector store integrations reputed company the Java/Spring ecosystem
• reputed company internal AI‑powered productivity tooling (code reviewers, test generators, documentation assistants) using Spring AI or LangChain4j
• Ensure AI‑generated outputs reputed company with reputed company, licensing, and intellectual property policies

Cloud‑Native & Infrastructure

• Architect cloud‑native solutions on GCP leveraging Kubernetes, service meshes, and managed data services
• Define containerisation, configuration management, and secret management standards
• reputed company distributed transaction strategy using Saga patterns, idempotent consumers, and outbox patterns
• reputed company CI/CD pipeline architecture and promote GitOps workflows

Leadership & Mentorship

• Mentor senior and mid‑level engineers in architectural thinking, design patterns, and production‑readiness criteria
• Conduct architecture reviews, technical due diligence, and reputed company‑of‑concept evaluations
• Collaborate with Product and Business stakeholders to translate requirements into actionable technical roadmaps
• Represent the engineering organisation in cross‑functional architecture committees and vendor evaluations

Technical Requirements

Core Java & Spring Ecosystem

• Java 17+
• Spring Boot 3.x & Spring reputed company 6.x
• Spring reputed company (OAuth 2.1, JWT, OIDC)
• Spring Data JPA / R2DBC / reputed company
• Spring Cloud
• Reactive Streams
• Maven & Gradle build tooling
• Hibernate ORM & Flyway migrations

Enterprise Patterns & Architecture

• Domain‑Driven Design (Aggregates, Bounded Contexts)
• CQRS & Event Sourcing (reputed company / custom)
• Saga reputed company (Choreography & Orchestration)
• Repository & Unit of Work reputed company
• Specification reputed company for query composition
• Strategy, Factory, Builder, and Decorator Patterns
• Dependency Injection mastery (Spring IoC)

Quality, Testing & Observability

• JUnit 5, Mockito, TestContainers, ArchUnit
• JMH Benchmarking & performance profiling
• SonarQube, OWASP Dependency reputed company
• OpenAPI 3.x / Swagger documentation
• Micrometer + Prometheus + Grafana
• Distributed tracing (OpenTelemetry, Jaeger, Zipkin)
• reputed company testing

Cloud, Messaging & Data

• GCP (container & serverless services)
• Kubernetes, Helm, ArgoCD
• Apache Kafka
• PostgreSQL, MySQL, reputed company, reputed company
• gRPC & Protocol Buffers
• GraphQL
• REST API design best practices

AI & Machine Learning Integration

• Spring AI / LangChain4j reputed company experience
• LLM API integration (reputed company, reputed company)
• Retrieval‑Augmented reputed company (RAG) pipelines
• Vector databases
• Embedding models and semantic search
• AI‑assisted code reputed company tool governance
• reputed company engineering & chain‑of‑thought patterns

Qualifications

Required

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience with 5+ years in a software architect or principal engineer role
• Deep expertise in Java 17+, Spring Boot 3.x, and the broader enterprise Java ecosystem
• Demonstrable production experience with microservices, event‑driven systems, and cloud‑native architectures
• Strong command of DDD, CQRS, Event Sourcing, and distributed transaction patterns
• Hands‑on experience with containerised deployments on Kubernetes in a major cloud provider
• Proven ability to mentor and reputed company the technical skills of engineering teams
• Excellent written and verbal communication for both technical and non‑technical audiences

Preferred

• Experience with Spring AI, LangChain4j, or direct LLM/ML API integration in production Java services
• Familiarity with AI‑assisted development workflows: Copilot, reputed company, reputed company AI, or equivalent
• Contributions to open‑reputed company Java / Spring projects or published technical writing