System Architect

What You Will Do

Architecture & Design

• Contribute to the design of system and platform architectures for backend services
• Translate architectural concepts into concrete designs, APIs, and components
• Define and document service boundaries, data models, integration patterns, and runtime considerations
• Support architectural decisions related to scalability, reliability, and maintainability

Hands-On Development

• Design and implement backend services and APIs using C# / .NET
• Contribute production-quality code alongside the engineering team
• Build and evolve system components following agreed architectural patterns
• Participate in refactoring and modernization of existing systems

Integration & Distributed Systems

• Design and implement integrations between internal services and external systems
• Work with asynchronous, message-driven architectures supporting transactional and state-based processing
• Help ensure systems are robust, idempotent, and resilient

Quality & Operational Readiness

• Participate in code reviews and design reviews
• Support performance analysis, troubleshooting, and production issue resolution
• Help define logging, monitoring, and observability patterns
• Ensure solutions are production-ready and operable

Collaboration & Growth

• Work closely with the team to align on platform direction
• Collaborate with engineers, product owners, and domain experts
• Engage with customers when needed to clarify requirements and validate solutions
• Share architectural knowledge and best practices within the team
• Continuously grow architectural and domain expertise

What We’re Looking For

Core Skills & Experience

We expect candidates to meet most of the core requirements below and demonstrate the ability to grow in adjacent areas.

• Strong experience designing and building backend systems
• Solid proficiency in C# / .NET and Linux-based environments
• Experience with REST APIs and service-based architectures
• Good understanding of distributed systems concepts
• Experience with relational databases (e.g. MySQL, PostgreSQL)
• Familiarity with Git, CI/CD pipelines, and modern development workflows
• Ability to balance design thinking with practical implementation
• Familiarity with Docker and containerized deployments
• Comfortable working across teams as a technical expert and advisor

Highly Valued Skills & Experience (Specialized Knowledge)

These skills are not mandatory; however, candidates are expected to demonstrate meaningful experience across a subset of the areas below, aligned with their strengths and background.

Telecom / Platform Domain

• Exposure to telecom OSS, service fulfillment, or network automation
• Familiarity with TM Forum Open APIs or similar telecom standards
• Understanding of order, service, and resource lifecycle concepts

Orchestration & Automation

• Experience with workflow engines, orchestration platforms, and state machines
• Experience with microservices-based architectures and messaging systems
• Understanding of API-driven, asynchronous, and message-based architectures
• Experience with BPMN engines (Camunda, Flowable, Zeebe, etc.)

Network Automation

• Exposure to network controllers and automation systems
• Experience in telecom networks (IP, MPLS, optical, mobile, access, core)
• Familiarity with NETCONF/YANG, gNMI, SNMP, and CLI-based automation
• Understanding of intent-based and policy-driven networking (IBN)

Other

• Familiarity with Kubernetes deployments
• Kafka, RabbitMQ, and event streaming platforms
• Observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry)
• Exposure to time-series databases (InfluxDB, VictoriaMetrics, etc.)

Experience working with systems in production environments