● 7+ years of experience in software development primarily with Java stack, Spring
● 3+ years of experience in designing software architecture for the multi-component environment
● Experience in building distributed systems: microservices, event-driven architectures in cloud
● Experience with mainstream data storage, replication, caching, and search technologies, such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, MS SQL Server, Amazon RDS, GCP CloudSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, and Lucene/Solr
● Experience with containers and orchestration platforms, including Kubernetes and Docker
● Comprehensive understanding of key technologies and their major pros/cons for resolving modern engineering problems
● Be open-minded and capable to learn from the decision history as well as providing solutions which lead to desired future state w/o fears from the past
● Excellent communication skills, written and verbal. You can explain your idea to any engineer and manager and perceive valuable feedback
● Experience building systems requiring extensive ETL, data lakes/platforms, and data sourcing
● Experience with Google Cloud managed services (ideally having GCP certification)
● Has successfully built and executed complex project with microservice architecture
Conditions & Space
You’ll have 20 paid holidays. Get sick? Stay home and get better — sick leavers are paid. Flexible working hours. Work remote or at the office (Kyiv, Cherkasy). You’ll be free to adjust your working space — choose a type of chair and model of laptop (depending on the project).
Clients & Projects
You’ll be engaged in the creation of products granted SIIA CODIE and GeekWire awards. Our clients are startups and companies with strong investments and innovative ideas. You’re free to change a project — internal rotation is available.
Learning & development
Online corporate library, soft skills training, and internal educational events are available for you. Our Career Advisor helps you with a Personal Development Plan. SPD-Ukraine covers your expenses on conferences, certifications, etc. Plus, free English classes with native speakers.
Sport & Health
You’ll get compensation for sports activities. If you take COVID testing, SPD-Ukraine covers your expenses. Medical insurance is also available. You’ll be able to get online support from psychologists and mentors provided by a third-party service.
Fun & Activities
You’ll enjoy two big company events (SPD Summer Party and SPD Winter Awards). Every month you’ll be able to have team-building activities. Presents are waiting for you for big life events (marriage, childbirth) and nice presents just for fun.
● Provide & translate software architecture vision, principles, and technology standards across the business direction or product area, working closely with engineeringing teams and product management to evaluate options and design a great solutions for the customers with an acceptable cost
● Devise technology and architecture solutions that propel engineering excellence across the organization, simplify otherwise complex problems, and address the “-ilities” (portability, usability, maintainability, scalability, recoverability, availability, extensibility, and security)
● Propose pragmatic, organized, and balanced technical decisions in areas such as build vs. buy, now vs. later, and refactor vs. rebuild
● Coach engineering teams, grow their level constantly and enable them making high-quality autonomous decision in the software design
● Manage tech debt for your responsibility zone, constantly reducing it and trying to minimize it during creation of new solutions
● Prototype experimental/researching solutions and drive innovations and prove the technology direction
● Build robust system diagrams, develop a detailed understanding of key aspects current software state, and provide a clear vision of proposed solutions or alternatives
● Describe technical context in intuitive ways for different audiences, adapting communication from highly technical deep dives with engineers to non-technical dialogue with senior stakeholders.
● Learn constantly, including in available cloud managed services (PaaS/SaaS/IaaS), libraries, frameworks and platforms (commercial and open source)
● Provides and oversees high-level estimates for scoping non-trivial features
The platform for investment professionals, used by thousands of customers, including large corporations, serial entrepreneurs and start-ups, venture capital and private equity firms, investment banks, law, accounting, and recruiting firms, and many others. Multiple awards winner: “The Best Financial & Market Data Information Solution”, 2 times “The Best Information Service delivered As Mobile App/Platform” at SIIA CODiE Awards.
As the Software Architect in engineering team, you will be facilitating architectural decisions and execution for one of product areas or business direction.
You will utilize your extensive background for working with talented engineers and insightful product managers to design and build exceptional solutions relied upon by thousands of PitchBook customers (many of them have big names, and the team is proud to work for their needs).
Also, this is an outstanding opportunity to work with strong professionals during a deep transformation phase bringing successful product solutions to the new level of maturity and scalability to match the highest grade of modern software development company.
Your ability to collaborate with colleagues, provide technical leadership in a matrix-style structure, level up engineers and development managers, and extend architecture influence across multiple engineering teams will be critical to your success. You will solicit feedback, engage others with empathy, and help create a culture of belonging, teamwork, and purpose.
If you love building customer-centric solutions, can drive and embrace changes, strive for excellence every day, are adaptable and focused, and believe work should be fun, come join us!