Chief Software Architect

A BIT ABOUT US

Lever was founded nine years ago to tackle the most strategic challenge that companies face: how to recruit and hire top talent. We’re building the next generation of hiring software that companies like Netflix, Atlassian, KPMG, and McGraw-Hill Education rely on to grow their teams. We've rethought the talent acquisition paradigm and are the innovation leaders in our space and looking for the right people to join us as we scale. 

We’re extraordinarily proud of the company we’ve built so far (not to mention humbled to be recognized as the #1 place to work in San Francisco, as well as a top workplace in the entire United States). Our people are Lever’s biggest competitive advantage and we’ll continue investing in our “Leveroos” and people-first culture.

THE CHALLENGE 

Business is great at Lever and we're at work scaling our systems and our teams to better support our rapidly growing customer base. Our engineering team is stepping up to the challenge of ensuring our product continues to perform well and operate reliably and efficiently as we add ever more customers, users, opportunities and candidates all while accelerating the delivery of new, innovative features to the market.

THE OPPORTUNITY

We are looking for an experienced architect who can both own our overall product architecture and elevate the practice of architecture at Lever. The Chief Architect will do hands-on work on further developing and enhancing Lever's architecture and technical direction and will also, through example and influence and by developing processes and structures, ensure that architecture done elsewhere in the organization is of high-quality and is consistent with our technical strategy.

THE TEAM

Working as part of Engineering's senior leadership team, the Chief Architect will be one of Lever's key technical leaders. The Chief Architect will engage with engineering leaders, product managers and business leaders to build alignment on technical direction and will provide thought leadership across the company.

THE SKILL SET

• 10+ years of experience as an Architect/Principal Software Engineer in a tech company with a track record of delivering software with high business impact
• 3+ years of experience in a technical leadership role
• Demonstrated prior experience leading the design of a service-oriented enterprise software-as-a-service.
• Significant experience selecting technologies and designing cloud-native solutions that have been successfully implemented and deployed at scale
• Strong knowledge of application data modeling and database design, ideally with document-centric databases like MongoDB
• Ability to drive consensus on technical approach and a track record establishing processes to ensure architectural consistency
• Experience with identity access management and role-based permissions for enterprise products
• Experience leading or working with a central architecture function preferred.

WITHIN 1 MONTH, YOU’LL

• Complete Ramp Camp, our onboarding program designed to get you up to speed on our business, vision and team and gain an understanding about how your role fits into Lever's broader organization.
• Ramp up on Lever’s engineering stack by pair-programming with your teammates and attend engineering training sessions designed and presented by your peers.
• Complete your engineering starter project and deploy your first changes to production!

WITHIN 3 MONTHS, YOU’LL

• Be deeply involved with the development of key subsystems of the product, providing architectural and design leadership to the engineers.
• Have established the meetings and processes needed to build and maintain alignment on architecture and technical direction
• Run “engineering roundtable” meetings to promote technical knowledge sharing and architectural best practices.
• Lead and facilitate product engineering design reviews.
• Have met with Product Managers and developed a clear understanding of Lever's product roadmap

WITHIN 6 MONTHS, YOU’LL

• Have contributed to implementing changes or enhancing the code to improve its product architecture
• Own the architectural roadmap for the product
• Own the database schema for the product
• Presented to executive management the target architecture for the product and the roadmap to get there

WITHIN 12 MONTHS, YOU’LL

• Have created a forward looking technical roadmap for the product
• Have led and delivered projects to advance the product architecture.
• Be providing best practices for component design for the target product architecture, and leading design reviews for them
• Own the technical training plan and onboarding process for new engineers
• Periodically present to the executive staff the architectural roadmap for how the product will scale to support the business growth.

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THE LEVER STORY

Lever builds modern recruiting software for teams to source, interview, and hire top talent. Our team strives to set a new bar for enterprise software with modern, well-designed, real-time apps. We participated in Y Combinator in summer 2012, and since then have raised $73 million. As the applicant tracking system of choice for Netflix, Atlassian, KPMG, and McGraw-Hill Education, and thousands more leading companies, Lever means you hire the best by hiring together. 

Lever is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations and will work with you to meet your needs. If you are a person with a disability and require assistance during the application process, please don’t hesitate to reach out! We celebrate our inclusive work environment and welcome members of all backgrounds and perspectives. Learn more about our team culture and commitment to diversity and inclusion.  

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