At Rave, we share the common goal of making the world a better and safer place. We're Ravers. Join us on our mission.
As a Lead Software Architect at Rave, you will utilize your strong problem solving and interpersonal skills to improve upon the existing design and development of a scalable suite of critical alerting and messaging applications that are a part of the Rave Mobile Safety Platform.
This is an exciting time to join Rave as we have experienced 10 years of double-digit growth and have recently received a significant investment by TCV (a leading private equity firm).
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Currently due to COVID all Ravers are working remotely.
Once Rave's offices safely re-open, this position can remain remote but will report into the headquarters in MA.
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What you'll do:
Design
- Partner early in the project lifecycle to create appropriate design patterns and recommendations based on existing design and platform foundation
- Participate in Agile SCRUM team discussions to ensure delivery of high-quality software
- Provide technical oversight and direction for software integrations with third parties
Development
- Partner to design and create software solutions to consume content supplied via RESTful APIs
- Develop secure, scalable, and highly fault tolerant code
- Review code and provide relevant feedback
Best Practices, Performance, Security
- Troubleshoot and debug software code to optimize overall performance
- Work with the software quality assurance team throughout the development process to test and fix/improve components where necessary
- Partner to research emerging architecture trends and industry standards
- Ensure designs consider security and compliance
Who you are:
- BS degree in Computer Science or other relevant field(s)
- At least 4 years experience designing highly scalable fault tolerant systems
- Strong knowledge of backend, frontend, site operations, AWS and programming languages including Java, js, etc.
- Background in Java development and ability to analyze code quickly
- Experience designing and implementing large scale content management solutions using scalable and modern architecture
- Experience with integrating third party libraries and APIs
- Ability to analyze complex systems and evolve them
- Experience designing for Cloud-based architectures (AWS, Azure, etc.)
Above and Beyond:
- Familiarity with a broad range of software engineering frameworks
- Experience working within Agile software development
- Experience with secure coding standards
Why you'll love it here:
- We build a very important product that has serious, life-saving implications but we don't take ourselves too seriously!
- Competitive base salary
- Ongoing training and coaching for career development
- Comprehensive medical, dental and vision coverage with significant company contribution
- Long and Short Term Disability
- 401K retirement savings program
- Employee Assistance Program
- Extremely generous paid time off
- On-site gym
- Pet Insurance
- Flexible hours
- Lively culture including happy hours, free lunch twice per month, company outings and more
Rave Mobile Safety is an Equal Opportunity Employer and utilizes the E-Verify Employment Eligibility Verification process.
