As the Software Architect, your hands-on leadership and deep understanding of digital and mobile will inspire and motivate your team to realize new heights in app and website development. This role provides the ability to work on multiple projects ranging from small to large-scale projects with a nimble and close-knit agency culture. You’ll work from home and lead a distributed, remote development team.
You’ll serve as the architect on multiple projects, including a Telehealth app, which virtually connects patients and healthcare providers. This Enterprise project supports a publicly-traded health benefits provider and offers you the opportunity to lead a 9-person cross-functional team and collaborate both internally and externally.
Your leadership will span architectural decisions, partnering directly with our clients, leading multiple projects, and collaborating with our product and project managers. You’ll inspire the team to ensure consistency across projects through our engineering process including ensuring effective use of automated testing, coding standards, frameworks, peer reviews, and patterns.
Our nimble, start-up approach offers our clients the opportunity to leverage modern software engineering practices and tools to deliver high-quality software efficiently. As our Mobile Architect, you will have the autonomy to make decisions and influence the technical direction of the company.
About Us
We are a award-winning digital product agency, headquartered in Chicago. We partner with clients ranging from Fortune 50 companies to high-growth startups and everyone in between to design, develop, and deliver successful digital experiences.
We’re a remote-first team of nearly 50 and growing rapidly. We are looking for other high-energy, tech-enthusiasts, to join our global team.
Move Purposely.
We believe in Moving Purposely. This means everything we do is thought through. We value proactive actions over reactive ones. We measure twice and cut once. This is why we only invest in talent who are determined to succeed, and partner with clients who are purposeful in their mission.
What you’ll do
- Deliver high-quality digital and mobile products for clients using React Native, iOS, Android, and Elixir.
- Utilize your communications expertise to partner with sales teams and client architects to design to-be architecture and application migration plans.
- Partner directly with clients to understand product problems, propose solutions, and work with the development team on the implementation and build of applications based on scalable, portable, and resilient designs.
- Inspire and lead our engineering team.
- Drive high-quality consistency across projects through our engineering process, rooted in CI/CD, automated testing, trunk-based development, and peer reviews.
- Contribute to Scrum processes (backlog refinement and sprint planning).
- Coach and train a team of experienced Software Engineers.
- Participate in the hiring process to screen and interview candidates.
- Occasionally travel to clients and work on-site (project kickoffs, train development teams).
- Work with great productivity tools including: Github, Jira, Slack.
Who you are
- Experienced with React Native, and either iOS or Android.
- Lead on multiple mobile projects relentlessly pursuing the true problems.
- Hands-on, technical, a keen problem solver who takes calculated risks.
- Persistent in delivering impactful solutions and designing architecture on mobile projects.
- Care about code quality: purposely deliver high-quality coding standards and well-written code.
- Test-focused: leverage automated testing to produce stable code.
- Strong desire to learn: you’re always looking for ways to improve your abilities.
- Opinionated: you have a strong opinion and able to challenge others (gracefully).
- Exceptional communication skills – written, oral, visual, formal, informal (able to adapt to client environment technical and non-technical).
- Helpful: digital agency experience.
- Experienced in Scrum Ceremonies.
- Upper-Intermediate English
- Located near Central Timezone (UTC-6) – Central / Latin America
Compensation and Benefits
- Long term contract.
- We send you a Macbook Air to work or $ 600 USD so you can buy the notebook you want.
- Apple products so you can build your workspace: screen, headphones, keyboard, mouse, among others.
- 25 days of PTO (Paid Time-Off),
- English classes,
- Courses, trainings and certifications,
- 3 days off for Q to study,
- Salary reviews every January.