Senior Software Architect

Job Description

Job DescriptionSalary:

This is a full-time position to be worked out of our Tucson, Arizona office.

In this position you will utilize your ample experience to help design the high-level structure, provide strategic direction and technical standards of our data platform. The ideal candidate will possess a deep expertise in system design, high performance computing, distributed systems, and a high level of proficiency in C and C++. You will work closely with the Director of Product Development to bring the companys innovative vision to life and with the development team to implement and maintain that vision.

Responsibilities

• Ensure scalability, performance, and security.
• Implement efficient solutions for mathematical modeling and simulation.
• Evaluate and recommend tools, technologies and processes that align with the architecture, business plans and long-term strategy to ensure the highest quality product platform.
• Perform analysis, estimate work, design and update software architecture.
• Guide development team to ensure production and maintenance of high quality, tested and efficient code, following industry standards.
• Provide guidance on compatibility and integration to ensure an integrated architecture across disparate products and technologies.
• Communicate with stakeholders and engineers to ensure technology stack consistency across different teams and requirements are met.
• Develop proof of concepts for new, innovative solutions.
• Other duties as required

Requirements

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Math, or equivalent combination of education and related experience
• At least 8-10 years of experience in C/C++
• Extensive knowledge of data structures and algorithms
• Experience writing high performance code (SIMD, cache conscious design)
• Experience writing large-scale multithreaded systems (lockless programming, paradigms, best practices)
• Experience working with large data sources (SQL, Parquet, streaming, others)
• Experience designing and implementing large software systems
• Experience designing APIs for internal and external use
• Knowledge of mathematics (statistics, geometry, linear algebra, operations research) a plus
• Knowledge of machine learning (feature engineering, modeling techniques) a plus
• Knowledge of simulation (Discrete event simulation, monte carlo methods, distributions) a plus
• Knowledge of networking code (sockets, encryption, services, use libraries, best practices) a plus
• Experience designing and implementing distributed systems (CAP Theorem, high availability, orchestration) a plus
• Skill in designing UI/UX a plus