Senior Software Architect

This is a full-time position to be worked out of our Tucson, Arizona office.

In this position you will utilize your ample experience to help design the high-level structure, provide strategic direction and technical standards of our data platform. The ideal candidate will possess a deep expertise in system design, high performance computing, distributed systems, and a high level of proficiency in C and C++. You will work closely with the Director of Product Development to bring the company’s innovative vision to life and with the development team to implement and maintain that vision.

Responsibilities

• Ensure scalability, performance, and security.


• Implement efficient solutions for mathematical modeling and simulation.


• Evaluate and recommend tools, technologies and processes that align with the architecture, business plans and long-term strategy to ensure the highest quality product platform.


• Perform analysis, estimate work, design and update software architecture.


• Guide development team to ensure production and maintenance of high quality, tested and efficient code, following industry standards.


• Provide guidance on compatibility and integration to ensure an integrated architecture across disparate products and technologies.


• Communicate with stakeholders and engineers to ensure technology stack consistency across different teams and requirements are met.


• Develop proof of concepts for new, innovative solutions.


• Other duties as required

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Math, or equivalent combination of education and related experience


• At least 8-10 years of experience in C/C++


• Extensive knowledge of data structures and algorithms


• Experience writing high performance code (SIMD, cache conscious design)


• Experience writing large-scale multithreaded systems (lockless programming, paradigms, best practices)


• Experience working with large data sources (SQL, Parquet, streaming, others)


• Experience designing and implementing large software systems


• Experience designing APIs for internal and external use


• Knowledge of mathematics (statistics, geometry, linear algebra, operations research) a plus


• Knowledge of machine learning (feature engineering, modeling techniques) a plus


• Knowledge of simulation (Discrete event simulation, monte carlo methods, distributions) a plus


• Knowledge of networking code (sockets, encryption, services, use libraries, best practices) a plus


• Experience designing and implementing distributed systems (CAP Theorem, high availability, orchestration) a plus


• Skill in designing UI/UX a plus