Software Architect

Job Description

Posted 28 days ago

As the Software Architect, your hands-on leadership and deep understanding of digital and mobile will inspire and motivate your team to realize new heights in app and website development. This role provides the ability to work on multiple projects ranging from small to large-scale projects with a nimble and close-knit agency culture. You’ll work from home and lead a distributed, remote development team. Your leadership will span architectural decisions, partnering directly with our clients, leading multiple projects, and collaborating with our product and project managers. You’ll inspire the team to ensure consistency across projects through our engineering process including ensuring effective use of automated testing, coding standards, frameworks, peer reviews, and patterns.

Our nimble, start-up approach offers our clients the opportunity to leverage modern software engineering practices and tools to deliver high-quality software efficiently. As our Architect, you will have the autonomy to make decisions and influence the technical direction of the company.

About Us

Foxbox Digital is an award-winning digital product agency, headquartered in Chicago. We partner with clients ranging from Fortune 50 companies to high-growth startups and everyone in between to design, develop, and deliver successful digital experiences.

We're a remote-first team of nearly 50 and growing rapidly. We are looking for other high energy, tech-enthusiasts, to join our global team.

We measure twice and cut once. We value proactive actions over reactive ones. We only invest in talent who are determined to succeed, and partner with clients who are purposeful in their mission.

If you want to learn more about how we work and what we believe in, check out Foxbox Culture.

• Deliver high-quality digital and mobile products for clients.
• Utilize your communications expertise to partner with sales teams and client architects to design to-be architecture and application migration plans.

• Partner directly with clients to understand product problems, propose solutions, and work with the development team on the implementation and build of applications based on scalable, portable, and resilient designs.

• Inspire and lead our engineering team.
• Drive high-quality consistency across projects through our engineering process, rooted in CI/CD, automated testing, trunk-based development, and peer reviews.

• Contribute to Scrum processes (backlog refinement and sprint planning).
• Coach and train a team of experienced Software Engineers.
• Participate in the hiring process to screen and interview candidates.
• Occasionally travel to clients and work on-site (project kickoffs, train development teams).

• Work with great productivity tools including: Github, Jira, Slack.

Requirements

Experienced with:

· Mandatory: JavaScript, React, Node, TypeScript.

· Desirable: knowledge in Ruby, Go, Elixir, Python or Java.

• Lead on multiple mobile projects relentlessly pursuing the true problems.
• Hands-on, technical, a keen problem solver who takes calculated risks.
• Persistent in delivering impactful solutions and designing architecture on mobile projects.

• Care about code quality: purposely deliver high-quality coding standards and well-written code.

• Test-focused: leverage automated testing to produce stable code.
• Strong desire to learn: you’re always looking for ways to improve your abilities.
• Opinionated: you have a strong opinion and are able to challenge others (gracefully).

• Exceptional communication skills – written, oral, visual, formal, informal (able to adapt to client environment technical and non-technical).

• Helpful: digital agency experience.
• Experienced in Scrum Ceremonies.

Benefits

• Work with an incredible team of talented, passionate people across the US and Latin America.
• Remote-first company with an office in Chicago. Work from home or from one of our co-working spaces on your schedule.
• Autonomy to lead exciting projects and structure how projects are run.
• Training program and resources to ensure you have opportunities to continue developing your skills and knowledge.