The Software Architect at Apptegy is responsible for transforming business requirements into scalable specifications, designs, and user stories. The role requires experience in domain-driven design and the ability to support a development team. Strong communication and collaboration skills are essential.
About Apptegy
Apptegy partners with school districts to simplify communication, elevate their brand, and empower every role in their organization. We put our clients front and center in everything we do because it's our clients who are most passionate about education. We build our products and features to make everyone in a school community better communicators. Ask any of our clients about us, and they will tell you that Apptegy’s people are thoughtful and high-performing. Our fast response time and quality support mean school leaders, teachers, and staff always have a partner ready to help provide a solution. Joining Apptegy is your opportunity to be on a high-performing team and contribute to our growth and your own.
We value thoughtfulness and high performance in everyone. That’s how we’ve grown quickly and won (and kept) thousands of school districts across the U.S. The engineering team is fast-growing and you’ll have the tools, the mentors, and the resources you need to be successful. We ask you to be someone who is internally motivated to do your best work and that you care about others. Apptegy’s Software Architect position is your opportunity to join a high-performing team and contribute to our growth and your own.
Why You’ll Love This Job
A Software Architect at Apptegy works within the Product and Engineering teams to refine business requirements and translate them into scalable specifications, designs, and user stories. The ideal Architect candidate will be experienced with domain-driven design and capable of eventually offering hands-on support to a development team working in an environment that includes products built on Ruby on Rails. An architect is also expected to be an exceptional communicator, listener, collaborator, and team player.
What You’ll Do
- Support product leaders in translating business requirements into high-level product specifications ensuring business value, system integration, scalability, and feasibility.
- Work with humility as a member of an engineering team to assist in creating user stories produced from high-level product specifications and participate in their implementation.
- Sculpt data models with performance, integrity, and longevity in mind.
- Work closely with multi-disciplinary engineering teams to design solutions that integrate well with our ecosystem of backend services (Ruby/Rails) and frontend applications (Web - Vue.js and Mobile - iOS and Android).
- Produce architectural design documents consumed by various internal teams to aid in the support and refinement of our multi-service architecture.
- Dive deep into design patterns and principles to keep simplicity, scalability, and availability in our architecture as it evolves.
- Assist tech support and engineering team members in the resolution of production issues, as needed.
Who You Are
- 10+ years of experience with a focus on backend and solid experience in a SaaS environment using technology similar to Ruby on Rails.
- An aptitude for challenge and a track record of success.
- Deep experience as a software engineer involving both deciding feature and/or platform architecture, writing code, and building products.
- Strong experience in a top-level database system (ideally PostgreSQL, but others work also).
- Capable of working closely with other software engineers to accomplish larger objectives and leading conversations on design and architecture for software development.
- You have opinions, you're comfortable expressing and defending those opinions, but you aren’t dogmatic.
Apptegy will not consider remote candidates from California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Nevada, New York, Rhode Island, or Washington for this opening.
Why You'll Love Working With Us
We take our responsibility as a company seriously and aim to make this the best job that you’ve had (and one that sets you up for future success). We want your day at work and your time at home to be a joyful experience that’s why we provide:
--Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and life insurance coverage
--Retirement 401(k) with employer match
--Health Savings Accounts (HSA) and Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)
--Mental Health Reimbursement
--Unlimited paid time off including seasonal (December) company-wide time off
--Paid parental and medical leave
We value thoughtfulness and high performance in all candidates as we progress through the interview stages. If the challenge of building a rapidly growing company excites you as much as it does us, we hope you’ll consider joining us.
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Apptegy is an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information.
Top Skills
Ruby On Rails
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