Technical Java/Golang Lead Architect / Engineer, Illinois

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Role: Technical Java/Golang Lead Architect / Engineer

Location: Remote but should be in Portland ME, San Francisco Bay Area CA, Dallas TX, Washington DC, Chicago IL Must be local to these areas.

Duration: Direct Hire (Full-time)

Job Description:

Need Answers for below questions with submissions

Tell me about a complex system you designed

What made you choose X tech/tool for that design

How would you approach designing a system to handle millions of transactions concurrently?

What techniques or technologies would you use to ensure scalability and performance?

Tell me about your process for evaluating and selecting a technology stack for a new project.

How do you balance the trade-offs between different technologies?

Can you tell me about a time when you had to make a decision that involved a significant trade-off?

How did you communicate this decision to your team and stakeholders?

How do you approach performance optimization in your designs?

Can you share a specific example where your optimization efforts led to significant improvements?

Team/Project:

TAG responsible for virtual card management

Handle card authorizations for purchase

Currently, a monolithic app that is old, slow and complicated to make improvements

Millions of transactions happening concurrently

Cannot get to all authorization real time (with current tech)

Working on the blueprint to move to a modernized, microservices based application next year this architect will be leading the new design and decisions

Important to understand DB concurrency have millions of transaction happening at once, need to handle customer balances real time,

Lead will be over 4 teams (2 in Brazil, 1 Australia, 1 US) to guide from a technical/architectural standpoint (no people management)

Architect:

Act as technical Architect on TAG projects for 4 teams

Will jump from team to team (project/project) to review business problems, where are the bottlenecks, and provide an architectural/design solution

Mentor engineers on team

Looking for architects that can

Lead blueprint and planning and then partner with teams to implement solutions

Must Haves:

Architecture background leading decisions on software architecture, decision making for tools/tech

Golang development

If no, golang will need to learn GoLang and should have examples of when they have had to learn new technologies in the past

Cloud experience preference for AWS

NoSQL DB preference for MongoDB

General understanding and working knowledge with testing, devops, releases

Interviews

1st IV with Jatin

Basic fit check, talk through past project, architecture and system design experience

Take home project

2nd IV panel (L4 and L5 architects on)

Technical deep dive

Will cover: Design questions, Review previous architectural projects, Technical and tooling decisions and WHY they made them (previous roles and from take home project), Review take home project

They are looking for a deep dive into details not a high level look at past projects

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