Principle Architect - Backend

ABOUT US

Founded in 2014, Circles is a global technology company reimagining the telco industry with its SaaS platform - Circles X, helping telco operators launch and operate successful digital brands through its offerings.

Having pioneered a successful blueprint for disrupting the telco space in Singapore, Circles has since launched its own digital telco, Circles.Life, in Singapore, Taiwan and Australia. Circles has also partnered with other telco operators to launch digital services, enabling our partners to accelerate growth and capture market share within a short period of time.

Today, Circles is partnering with operators in 14 countries to deliver delightful digital experiences to millions of people through our businesses.

We are backed by global investors such as Sequoia, Warburg Pincus, EDBI Singapore and Founders Fund – renowned backers of industry-shaking innovators.

Role expectations

• Gaining in-depth domain knowledge about the bounded contexts, customer experience and operator experience in CirclesX Platform.
• Architect, Design and implement solutions, in alignment with platform and DDD principles adopting organization's architectural standards and best practices.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to the engineering teams working on the services and mentor engineers in adopting and implementing DDD concepts, best practices, and architectural standards.
• Work closely with the Product Management & Business teams to convert business requirements to tangible capabilities while providing a very hands-on technical leadership to the rest of the engineering team. 
• Bring in best practices and past learnings related to performance, reliability, and scalability to the designs and implementations.
• Collaborate with security and compliance teams to ensure that the designs and implementations are adhered to organizational security policies, industry standards, and any relevant regulations.
• Implement monitoring and observability strategies into the designs, ensuring that the engineering team can effectively identify and address issues in production.
• Maintain up-to-date documentation for the applications, including its design, implementation, APIs, and any relevant domain knowledge.
• Supervise the end-to-end delivery of the capabilities by leading the engineering team.
• Guide, coach and mentor engineers and foster a Platform culture of high performance.

Requirements

• About 14+ years software industry experience.
• Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent. MSc in Computer Science / Software Engineering will be beneficial.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to lead a team of 6-10 senior engineers.
• In depth passion to get hands dirty with coding.
• In depth understanding in at least one modern backend development framework / language with a focus on Java, Spring Boot and/or Golang.
• In depth understanding in at least one modern frontend development framework with a focus on ReactJS. Experience in Vanilla JS, CSS and JQuery.
• In depth understanding working on SQL & NoSQL Databases such as MongoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis etc. Hand-on experience in query optimizations and data modeling for scale and performance.
• In depth understanding of Software Design Patterns and Enterprise Integration Patterns.
• In depth understanding of application performance optimizations both in backend and frontend.
• In depth understanding of DevOps, Observability and Domain Driven Design.
• A very good understanding on containerization and K8s stack.
• Preferred experience in Elasticsearch and Kibana (ELK Stack) or similar.
• Preferred experience with messaging systems like RabbitMQ or similar.
• Deep dive, problem-solving, RCA and systematic thinking to reach to the cause of issues.
• Able to work independently and multi-task effectively.