Software Architect II

The FreedomPay Commerce Platform is the technology of choice for many of the largest companies across the globe in retail, hospitality, lodging, gaming, sports and entertainment, foodservice, education, healthcare and financial services.  FreedomPay’s technology has been purposely built to deliver rock solid performance in the highly complex environment of global commerce. The company maintains a world-class security environment and was first to earn the coveted validation by the PCI Security Standards Council against Point-to-Point Encryption with EMV standard in North America. FreedomPay’s robust solutions across payments, security, identity and data analytics are available in-store, online and on-mobile and are supported by rapid API adoption. The award winning FreedomPay Commerce Platform operates on a single, unified technology stack across multiple continents allowing enterprises to deliver a consistent, repeatable experience on a global scale.  FreedomPay is a fast paced, high growth company with a great culture with competitive benefits and compensation with a business casual atmosphere.
The FreedomPay Commerce Platform is the technology of choice for many of the largest companies across the globe in retail, hospitality, lodging, gaming, sports and entertainment, foodservice, education, healthcare and financial services.  FreedomPay’s technology has been purposely built to deliver rock solid performance in the highly complex environment of global commerce. The company maintains a world-class security environment and was first to earn the coveted validation by the PCI Security Standards Council against Point-to-Point Encryption with EMV standard in North America.  
 
FreedomPay’s robust solutions across payments, security, identity and data analytics are available in-store, online and on-mobile and are supported by rapid API adoption. The award winning FreedomPay Commerce Platform operates on a single, unified technology stack across multiple continents allowing enterprises to deliver a consistent, repeatable experience on a global scale.  FreedomPay is a fast paced, high growth company with a great culture with competitive benefits and compensation with a business casual atmosphere. 

Job Responsibilities

• Possess and demonstrate fantastic organizational, time management, conceptualization, communication, and problem-solving skills.
• Deep understanding of architectural design patterns, their strengths and weaknesses, and when it’s appropriate to use them end to end, ensuring measurable success criteria and timely stakeholder communication.
• Align Architectural Designs to business outcomes and Objectives & Key Results (OKRs) with disciplined execution—clear standards, traceability, and on-time deliverables. Capture trade-offs and approvals in Architecture Decision Records (ADR).
• Collaborate with Product Managers and Owners, SRE/Platform, Security, Data, QA and Development Managers, producing concise, audit-ready artifacts.
• Practice ticket and time management (daily time logs; prompt open/update/close of tickets)
• Translate Requirements into Architectural Designs that meet Functional and non-Functional Requirements (Availability, Latency, Throughput, Security) with versioning, change control, and well-defined rollout and rollback plans.
• Follow Architectural and industry best practices, standards, and patterns. Escalate and communicate exceptions as-needed
• Contribute to security-by-design, e.g. threat model inputs, as it applies to architectural designs using approved patterns and templates; escalate exceptions with rationale and impact. Capture trade-offs and approvals in Architecture Decision Records (ADR).
• Participate in incident lifecycle; lead Root Cause Analysis (RCA) synthesis for Architecture as applicable
• Develop and document Proofs-of-Concept (PoC) to vet, test, and explain Architectural Designs; to act as reference code and support/unblock engineering teams
• Executive-ready polish of domain documentation (clear narrative, crisp diagrams, explicit risks/assumptions)
• Maintain hands-on involvement writing code for PoCs, creation of frameworks, packages, examples, etc.
• Schedule and conduct inter-team and intra-team Arch Design review sessions
• Participate in Development Team pull requests as-needed to ensure alignment with guidelines and practices
• Author documentation (Architectural Designs, API Model Definitions, Data Models/Schemas, Swimlane Diagrams) & review documentation for completeness
• Participate in / lead design reviews; record decisions as Architecture Decision Records (ADR)
• Create migration and technical-debt plans with milestones
• Produce high-level multi-system diagrams & outlines (C4 , cross-system sequence flows, and swimlanes) 

Required Skills & Experience

• A minimum of 6 years of experience as a Software Developer/Engineer or 2 years of experience as a Software Architect I working with .Net/C# on a daily basis.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and conceptual skills.
• Good grasp of software architecture principles including SOLID, Domain-Driven Design (DDD), and Clean Architecture
• Ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines.  This includes strong decision making and collaboration with Managers, Leads, Architects, Principals, and others to design/develop right-sized solutions accordingly.
• Strong understanding of current Microsoft development technologies.  Strong understanding of surrounding technologies, cloud architecture and services, and other 3rd party tools and services relevant to FreedomPay.
• Possess great organizational and self-managerial skills.  Also be comfortable with priority shifting, focus shifting, as the business may dictate and rally the team to be flexible.
• Ability to anticipate potential problems and determine and implement solutions.
• Ability to deal with ambiguity and drive through to the details.
• Strong English reading and writing communication skills, with an ability to express and understand complex technical concepts.  As other languages are a requirement, that will be explicitly noted during the recruitment process.
• At least a BS/BA Degree in MIS, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

What makes you stand out:

• A demonstrable track record of developing scalable services and applications in fast-paced environments and supporting those projects in both Regional Production and Disaster Recovery environments.
• Hands-on experience working with technologies such as Redis, Kafka, EventHubs, Memcached.
• A mindset focused on performance, security, and maintainability.
• An understanding of event-driven architecture and distributed systems.
• Working knowledge of both SQL and NoSQL databases.
• A Confluent Certified Developer
• A Redis Certified Developer 

As the fastest growing commerce company in the industry, we offer the opportunity for tremendous upward mobility within the company as well as development and professional growth opportunities. FreedomPay's fulltime roles provide exceptional benefits including medical, prescription, dental and vision coverage, Life Insurance, Retirement Plans with company match, commission sharing plan, flexible hybrid working environment, and great parental and other leave programs. All positions must be able to successfully pass a background check as well as a credit check.
FreedomPay is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Veterans. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.