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About the role
- Software Architect at Vendavo influencing core product architecture and practices while working on modern technologies.
Responsibilities
- Architecture & Technical Leadership
- Define and own the technical roadmap for the platform, aligning architecture decisions with business objectives and product strategy.
- Design scalable, resilient microservices architectures using event-driven patterns (Event Sourcing, CQRS), message brokers (Kafka, Kinesis, SQS), and Data Mesh principles.
- Champion event-driven development practices across teams, designing domain events, event schemas, pub/sub topologies, and asynchronous communication patterns for loosely coupled services.
- Lead the architectural transformation from legacy monolithic systems to modern, event-driven, cloud-native services.
- Establish and enforce architectural standards, design patterns, coding guidelines, and technology guardrails across engineering teams.
- Conduct architecture reviews, threat modeling, and technical feasibility assessments for new features and platform initiatives.
- Write production-grade code in Node.js and Python, contributing to critical system components, proof-of-concepts, and performance-sensitive modules.
- Design and optimize complex ETL pipelines and data workflows involving Amazon DocumentDB (MongoDB-compatible), MySQL on RDS, and other AWS-native data services.
- Lead database schema design, query optimization, and data migration strategies across MySQL (RDS) and DocumentDB.
- Architect CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, infrastructure-as-code, and deployment automation targeting AWS EKS (Kubernetes) and other managed services.
- Drive the migration of legacy ETL processes (e.g., Talend) to native Python/Node.js-based data pipelines with improved reliability and maintainability.
- Partner with the Engineering Manager to translate business requirements into implementable technical designs and sprint-ready work items.
- Mentor and coach developers and QA engineers across both Scrum teams, raising the technical bar through design reviews, pair programming, and knowledge-sharing sessions.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, DevOps, Security, and other engineering teams to ensure cohesive platform evolution.
- Drive technical decision-making through RFCs, ADRs (Architecture Decision Records), and collaborative design sessions.
- Champion engineering excellence: testability, observability, performance, and security-by-design.
- Drive adoption of automated testing strategies (unit, integration, contract, and performance testing).
- Lead security architecture reviews, penetration test remediation, and vulnerability management.
- Establish SLOs/SLIs and monitoring/alerting strategies to ensure platform reliability.
- Lead the design and integration of Generative AI solutions including LLM-powered copilots (e.g., Claude Code), Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems, and Model Context Protocol (MCP)-enabled architectures.
- Architect scalable and secure GenAI frameworks leveraging Amazon Bedrock, embeddings, vector databases, and advanced prompt orchestration strategies.
- Establish governance, monitoring, and guardrails to ensure responsible, reliable, and cost-effective deployment of enterprise GenAI capabilities.
Requirements
- 12 + years of professional software engineering experience with at least 3–4 years in an architect or senior technical leadership role.
- Deep expertise in Node.js with hands-on experience building enterprise-grade backend services and APIs.
- Strong proficiency in Python for data engineering, ETL pipelines, scripting, and automation.
- Solid experience with Amazon DocumentDB (or MongoDB) and MySQL on AWS RDS, including schema design, indexing, and query optimization.
- Demonstrated experience designing and implementing microservices architectures, RESTful APIs, and event-driven systems.
Benefits
- Professional growth and Development opportunities.
- Working within a team of friendly, skilled people where help is always within reach
- Flexible working hours
- 4 recharge days, where the entire company goes on a brief pause in all geographies for 1 day each quarter. This day can be spent in whatever way helps you recharge, to regain energy, and dive back into the next workday
- High-end laptop (Dell or Mac)
- Competitive pay and bonus
- 18 vacation days in a year in addition to 15 days Sick Leave/ Casual leave per calendar year.
- 16 hours of paid volunteer time off per year
- Wedding gift and newborn gift allowance for employees.
- 26 weeks of paid maternity leave and one week of paid paternity leave.
- 12 wellness leaves for women employees
- Health Insurance of up to 7 lacs for self, spouse, 4 dependent children, and parents. 100% of the premium is paid by Vendavo and it covers the employee, spouse, children, and their parents.
- Group Term Insurance coverage up to three times of their Annual CTC . Dependents are not covered.
- Group Personal Accident coverage up to three times of Annual CTC. Dependents are not covered.
- Provident fund contributions
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