Principal Software Architect - Java/Python

Role & Responsibilities:

• Define and drive the overall software architecture and technical vision across products, platforms, and engineering teams.
• Design highly scalable, secure, reliable, and maintainable distributed systems and enterprise applications.
• Lead architecture decisions involving microservices, APIs, cloud platforms, databases, messaging, integration, and system performance.
• Translate business requirements into technical architecture, solution designs, and implementation roadmaps.
• Establish and enforce architecture standards, design principles, coding practices, and engineering best practices.
• Conduct architecture reviews, technical design reviews, and provide guidance on critical technology decisions.
• Identify technical risks, scalability bottlenecks, and architectural debt, and define strategies to address them.
• Work closely with engineering, product, DevOps, security, QA, and business stakeholders to deliver complex initiatives.
• Mentor and guide senior engineers, tech leads, and architects, helping build strong technical capabilities within the organization.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend appropriate tools, frameworks, and platforms based on business and technical requirements.
• Drive initiatives around cloud adoption, modernization, platform engineering, automation, observability, security, and performance optimization.

Preferred Candidate Profile:

• 8-10 years of strong software engineering experience, with significant experience in architecture and technical leadership.
• Proven experience designing and implementing large-scale, highly available, distributed software systems.
• Strong understanding of system design, software architecture, design patterns, distributed computing, and scalability.
• Hands-on experience with Java, Python, Go, C#, or similar enterprise programming languages.
• Strong expertise in microservices, REST/GraphQL APIs, event-driven architecture, messaging systems, and integration patterns.
• Experience with at least one major cloud platform such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Strong knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases, caching, search, and data-storage architectures.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, and modern DevOps practices.
• Strong understanding of application security, cloud security, authentication/authorization, and secure software development.
• Demonstrated ability to lead architecture initiatives across multiple engineering teams without necessarily having direct people-management responsibility.