Role Description At Livefront, we help companies design and build world-class digital products that command attention and inspire joy. We’re looking for an outstanding Solutions Architect to join our team. - Architecture Design & Implementation: Lead the design of robust architectures tailored to client needs. Implement these solutions hands-on, ensuring scalability and maintainability. - API Design & Integration: Design, develop, and integrate APIs, ensuring seamless communication between systems and enhancing overall performance. - Technical Leadership: Guide and mentor engineering teams, conduct code reviews, and set technical standards. Engage in technical spikes to explore new technologies and methods. - Client Interaction: Work closely with clients to understand their business goals, present technical solutions, and adjust strategies based on feedback. - DevOps & Release Management: Design, set up, and maintain CI/CD pipelines. Manage deployment processes to ensure smooth, reliable releases. - Problem-Solving & Troubleshooting: Address technical issues promptly and resolve them, ensuring minimal disruption to project timelines. - Adaptability: Engage in diverse projects, from API design to live team support to full-time DevOps, adapting your skills to meet varied client needs. Qualifications - At least 7-10 years of software engineering experience, preferably in a consulting environment or as part of an in-house, cross-functional product team. - Experience building consumer-facing native mobile and web applications, with a fluent command of the native languages and core frameworks. - Demonstrated expertise architecting, building, maintaining, and scaling modern software on various platforms. - Ability to design, set up, and maintain DevOps pipelines using various tools and techniques. - Ability to design and maintain CI/CD pipelines and manage complex deployments. Scripting expertise (Unix shell, Ruby, Perl, etc.). - Experience designing APIs and writing API specifications. - Ability to clearly articulate technical requirements to other engineers. - An understanding of computer networking (e.g., VPNs, SSH, Wi-Fi) and experience setting up, maintaining, and troubleshooting computer networks. - A keen sense for security: you're able to think around corners and see potential risks. - An ability to understand client expectations, the work the team has done and still has to do to meet those expectations, and the ability to motivate the team to successfully deliver. - Work samples showcasing performant, neatly organized code with clean, well-implemented user interfaces. - A talent for communicating directly with clients, managing expectations, and explaining advanced technical concepts and their implications. - Excellent communication skills and a strong ability to present and defend technical and architectural choices persuasively. - Renowned problem-solving skills. - Above-average discipline and personal organization skills. - A demonstrated hunger for personal and professional growth. - A self-evident love and care for the craft of software engineering. Benefits - Compensation is $115,000 - $160,000 per year. What to expect - When applying, please include a short note about yourself, a summary of your work experience, and a link to any public profiles you actively maintain (e.g., GitHub, LinkedIn, etc). - Our hiring process moves quickly and consists of several stages for candidates who capture our attention with their initial submission, sometimes including but not limited to a short preliminary phone interview, a series of video interviews, and a short take-home exercise, which you'll have up to a week to complete. Bonus points if you… - Have strong illustration chops in technical diagramming. - Speak, write, and/or educate publicly about technical topics. - Have publicly released your own personal, self-started products or apps. - Enjoy tinkering with emerging languages and platforms such as Go, Rust, Alexa, and/or Unity.