Job Description
The Lead Software Engineer Cloud Architect is responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining OpenEye's large-scale cloud-based video management platform, leading modernization efforts, and guiding technical strategy to ensure scalability, stability, and innovation, including AI integration.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and lead implementation of large-scale cloud-based projects throughout the software development lifecycle.
- Architect and implement reusable frameworks, components, and tools for multiple engineering teams.
- Lead modernization efforts of legacy architectures, including migration to microservices and cloud-native patterns.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to align technical solutions with business goals while maintaining architectural integrity.
- Mentor engineers and promote best practices for code quality, testing, and maintainability.
- Drive technical standards and participate in strategic planning and cross-departmental technical councils.
- Design and adopt AI-enabled capabilities, ensuring responsible, scalable, and auditable AI usage.
- Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field or equivalent skills and experience.
- 12 years of professional software engineering experience, including demonstrated success in lead and architectural roles.
- Deep experience designing and operating cloud architectures and infrastructure using AWS services such as EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, etc.
- Substantial expertise with Java and the Spring Framework for building large-scale, high-performance systems.
- Exceptional skill in designing new systems and enhancing legacy systems to ensure long-term stability, scalability, and maintainability.
- Strong experience in performance optimization, including profiling, tuning, and improving efficiency at scale.
- Significant exposure to big data challenges, designing systems capable of ingesting, processing, and storing massive volumes of data efficiently.
- Strong understanding of architectural design principles, scalability strategies, and data-intensive system operations.
- Excellent critical thinking, problem-solving, and mentoring skills.
- Ability to influence technical decisions through collaboration and strategic foresight.
- Strong quality ethic and test-first mindset.
- Excellent communication and teamwork skills.
Benefits & Perks
Compensation/salary range: 140,000 - 190,000 USD annually
Work schedule: Flexible hybrid work schedule
Work environment perks: Casual dress code, jeans welcome, collaborative and fun culture, idea sharing encouraged
Additional benefits: Medical, dental, vision benefits starting day 1, generous medical plan subsidy, health savings account with company contribution, up to 5,000 USD annual 401k match, company-paid short-term and long-term disability, AD&D and life insurance, paid maternity and paternity leave, 15 days paid vacation (increases after 3 years), 7 paid sick wellness days per year, 9 paid holidays per year, educational assistance program, employee equipment program, free alarm system for home
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