Sr. Software Architect

Sr. Software Architect

The FreedomPay Commerce Platform is the technology of choice for many of the largest companies across the globe in retail, hospitality, lodging, gaming, sports and entertainment, foodservice, education, healthcare and financial services. FreedomPay's technology has been purposely built to deliver rock solid performance in the highly complex environment of global commerce. The company maintains a world-class security environment and was first to earn the coveted validation by the PCI Security Standards Council against Point-to-Point Encryption with EMV standard in North America. FreedomPay's robust solutions across payments, security, identity and data analytics are available in-store, online and on-mobile and are supported by rapid API adoption. The award winning FreedomPay Commerce Platform operates on a single, unified technology stack across multiple continents allowing enterprises to deliver a consistent, repeatable experience on a global scale. FreedomPay is a fast paced, high growth company with a great culture with competitive benefits and compensation with a business casual atmosphere.

We are currently seeking a seasoned Sr. Software Architect with experience in the Microsoft technology stack (.NET, C#, SQL) and various other technologies. In this full-time, salaried position, they will join a team of world class architects, engineers and developers solving complex problems.

This position will have multiple responsibilities including solution architecting and software design of complex systems. The right candidate will be comfortable with systems integration and have experience bringing sub-systems together into a single system. The software architect must be able to leverage various frameworks, patterns, and tools. They will have shared accountability for the quality of the solution and ensure seamless integration and implementations. This position will report to the Director of Software Architecture.

Job Responsibilities

Analyze and understand client's technology environment including system process and data flows, integrations, interactions and dependencies, and conceptual designs

Understand and participate in the entirety of the enterprise architecture, systems, services, platforms, and technology

Participate in business requirements gathering activities with project managers, business systems analysts, and other architects

Conduct white board design sessions with clients, both internal and external

Architect complex software solutions using business requirements and produce appropriate artifacts such as functional and operational requirements, and software prototypes

Present / communicate the architecture and software solutions to key stake holders, team members, and developers

Understanding of architectural design patterns, their strengths and weaknesses, and when it's appropriate to use them

Work within Scrum teams to create Epics and Development Requests and provide estimates

Follow, enforce, and contribute to technical and coding standards and approaches to promote reuse and consistency

Facilitate and conduct regular code reviews to ensure best demonstrated practices and proper architecture

Collaborate with the QA team to ensure proper test plan, test coverage, test execution, and defect remediation

Provide expertise and oversight to developers for solution delivery, from a technical / architecture perspective

Required Skills & Experience

At least a BS / BA Degree in MIS, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

A minimum of 10 years experience as a Software Developer / Engineer / Architect

3+ years experience integrating with and / or designing Payment Industry APIs and Frameworks such as Stripe, Adyen, Verifone, Square.

A minimum of 3 years experience in high volume transactional processing environments including multi-threaded services and service bus implementations (financial or payment related industry)

Production experience with Azure services (ServiceBus, EventHub, Functions)

Expert level understanding of C#, .Net Core, , strong object-oriented experience

General

Strong MS Office, Project and Visio or Lucid Chart skills

Strong database design and mindset on performance

Experience designing systems that handle large amounts of secure data

Git, Bitbucket, SVN, Artifactory, NuGet

Strong English written and verbal interpersonal communication skills

Resolve technical problems, disputes, and make tradeoffs as appropriate

Manage risk identification and risk mitigation strategies associated with the architecture

Ensure the architecture is sustainable, deployable, and secure

Excellent multi-tasking skills, managing multiple initiatives at one time in a fast-paced environment

Travel may be required (U.S. and International)

Pluses

IoT experience - Architecting mobile, hardware devices, and distributed applications and platforms including complex distributed service environments (SOA, Cloud, distributed windows applications and services, and SDK's)

SQL 2012+, High availability groups

CICD with Team City, Octopus deploy, etc.

React

Experience developing multithreaded, high concurrency services (Windows Services)

As the fastest growing commerce company in the industry, we offer the opportunity for tremendous upward mobility within the company as well as development and professional growth opportunities. FreedomPay's fulltime roles provide exceptional benefits including medical, prescription, dental and vision coverage, Life Insurance, Retirement Plans with company match, commission sharing plan, flexible hybrid working environment, and great parental and other leave programs. All positions must be able to successfully pass a background check as well as a credit check.

FreedomPay is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability / Veterans. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.