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Description

FunnelEnvy is looking for a Platform Architect to own and drive the technical architecture and related health and performance KPIs for our real-time marketing personalization platform. You’ll also be responsible for preserving our ability to rapidly validate hypotheses in the solution while also ensuring service levels at scale for enterprise customers.

About Us

We’re a fast growing startup near San Francisco with technology and services focused on delivering more valuable customer experiences. For the past two years we’ve delivered return on traffic by focusing on technology and execution. Current and past customers include HP, Zillow, Disney, TripAdvisor, VMware and Angie’s List.

We’re well positioned for growth and we need to ensure that our platform can meet the functional, performance and quality demands that will be expected by our growing list of (typically high-traffic) customers. We need help to make sure we maintain the high standards that we’ve become known for.

Who We're Looking For

The ideal candidate has many years of experience in enterprise cloud, big data and high performance environments, and can lead the evolution of our architecture to strike the right balance between agility and stability.

In this role you’ll be a key member of our product engineering team, providing leadership and guidance to other engineers on your team. You’ll be expected to research, experiment and validate and demonstrate the benefit of your architectural approaches while leading the developers in the implementation.

You’ll own and be responsible for:

  • Helping to develop a consistent framework to strike the right balance between performance, scalability, accrued technical debt and overall velocity.
  • Optimizing the performance, uptime and reliability of the platform and ensuring that strict service levels are maintained over time and at scale.
  • Improving and maintaining the uptime reliability of our key integrations.
  • Ensuring that our infrastructure can accommodate and scale to heavy front end load and significant back-end data requirements
  • Establishing a scalable and reliable infrastructure & data storage strategy.
  • Mitigating technical and architectural risk of new features in the platform.

Key competencies to be successful at this position

  • Excellent communication skills
  • Success with developing and owning implementing distributed cloud architectures with big data and real-time performance requirements.
  • Expert backend software development skills
  • Deep expertise with 3rd party API integrations
  • Experience with service and algorithm design and implementation
  • Thinks strategically when making architectural decisions
  • Ability to balance cost/risk with business concerns
  • Embraces and demonstrates of Agile methodology/iterative development
  • Solid leadership and mentoring skills
Start date
ASAP
From
FunnelEnvy
Published at
13.04.2017
Contact person:
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Project ID:
1325689
Contract type
Freelance
Workplace
100 % remote
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