Are you a skilled engineering leader looking to make the move to a forward-thinking tech company? Do you enjoy designing quality solutions and embracing new technologies? Good news! 1WorldSync is looking for a Principal Software Architect to join our team in Chicago, IL.
1WorldSync is the industry leader in product content management. With approximately 550 employees across the US, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Portugal, Switzerland, and the UK, we’re seeking a Principal Software Architect to support our growing global team.
Reporting directly to our Director of Engineering, the Principal Software Architect will guide the design and implementation of the software solutions under the User Generated Content (UGC) business division. Our teams work across the front-end (React & Elm), backend (Java/Kotlin & Ruby), DevOps, and QA. We need a seasoned engineer who can shape the long-term design of our system. This person will guide our teams in architecting product features in a way that moves us towards that vision. We have a team-oriented culture, value collaboration, self-direction, and continuous improvement. We learn from our experiences to always improve, and we have fun and celebrate our successes.

As a Principal Software Architect at 1WorldSync, responsibilities include the following:

• Establish and champion the high-level, long-term architectural strategy for the UGC division’s suite of solutions
• Ensure feature architecture aligns with the established technical strategy through active guidance of development teams
• Develop the engineering team’s capability in architectural design and implementation through mentorship and enablement
• Lead the research, evaluation, and adoption of new technologies to advance our solutions.
• Partner with product and business leadership to ensure the technical strategy effectively addresses customer requirements and business goals
• Drive enhancements in engineering-wide practices, including CI/CD, monitoring, security, and developer experience tooling
• Mentor engineers on technical best practices via collaborative design, pairing, and detailed code reviews

REQUIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

• 7+ years of full-stack application development in our language stack (Kotlin, Java) and with AWS (strong Kotlin experience preferred)
• 3+ years of experience with event-driven development (SQS, SNS, Kafka, Kinesis, Pub/Sub) and idempotent patterns
• 3+ years of experience developing APIs for front end applications
• 3+ years of strong experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and large data sets
• 3+ years of experience leveraging and maintaining CI/CD tooling (CircleCI, GitHub Actions)
• 3+ years of experience leveraging infrastructure as code using Terraform

DESIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

• Previous experience leveraging automated database DDL (Liquibase, Flyway)
• Previous experience with object data stores (AWS S3, Azure Blob Storage, GCP Cloud Storage) and/or document data stores (AWS DynamoDb, MongoDB, NoSQL)
• Previous experience building containerized applications (Docker) and deploying them to orchestration (AWS ECS, Kubernetes, Docker Swarm)
• Experience with source control tools such as Git

• Establish and champion the high-level, long-term architectural strategy for the UGC division’s suite of solutions
• Ensure feature architecture aligns with the established technical strategy through active guidance of development teams
• Develop the engineering team’s capability in architectural design and implementation through mentorship and enablement
• Lead the research, evaluation, and adoption of new technologies to advance our solutions.
• Partner with product and business leadership to ensure the technical strategy effectively addresses customer requirements and business goals
• Drive enhancements in engineering-wide practices, including CI/CD, monitoring, security, and developer experience tooling
• Mentor engineers on technical best practices via collaborative design, pairing, and detailed code review