Software Architect

Caliberly; Dubai; On-site; AED 350,000 - 550,000; Full time

Job summary

Caliberly is seeking a highly skilled Software Architect to design scalable, secure cloud-based solutions with a strong emphasis on AWS.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, lead architectural implementation, and mentor engineers while ensuring best practices, encryption, and robust API security across services.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related field.
• Proven experience as a Software Architect with focus on cloud-based, scalable systems (AWS preferred).
• Hands-on with AWS services such as EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, DynamoDB, ECS, EKS, etc.
• Strong knowledge of microservices, distributed systems, and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Proficient in RESTful APIs, API versioning, authentication/authorization, and documentation.
• Experience with message queues (SQS, SNS, Kafka, RabbitMQ).
• Familiarity with Agile, DevOps, CI/CD, and IaC tooling; security-focused development.
• Excellent communication and mentoring abilities; ability to simplify complex concepts.

Responsibilities

• Architect and design scalable, secure cloud-based software solutions focusing on AWS.
• Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and stakeholders to translate requirements into designs.
• Lead implementation and guide development teams through the full SDLC.
• Evaluate existing systems, propose improvements for performance, security, and scalability.
• Define architectural standards, best practices, and coding guidelines.
• Stay current with cloud trends and assess new tech for impact on architecture.
• Mentor junior engineers and foster technical excellence.
• Work with security teams to ensure encryption, access control, and API security.
• Design secure client-server communication and RESTful API security patterns.
• Integrate message queues to enable asynchronous microservice communication.
• Drive architectural decisions and resolve complex technical challenges.

Skills

Cloud architecture

AWS

REST API design

Microservices

Security best practices

DevOps

CI/CD

IaC

Leadership

Communication

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/Software Engineering

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Job description

We are seeking a highly skilled Software Architect with extensive hands-on experience and a proven track record in designing highly scalable systems in cloud environments, preferably AWS. The ideal candidate will possess a deep understanding of cloud technologies, architecture principles, best practices, application security, client-server aspects, RESTful API design, and message queue systems. While experience with End-to-End Encryption (E2EE) is welcome, it is not mandatory for this role.

Responsibilities:

• Architect and design highly scalable, reliable, and secure cloud-based software solutions, with a focus on AWS services.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams including product managers, engineers, and stakeholders to understand business requirements and translate them into technical specifications and system designs.
• Lead the implementation of architectural solutions, providing hands-on expertise and guidance to development teams throughout the entire software development lifecycle.
• Conduct technical evaluations and assessments of existing systems, identifying areas for improvement and proposing innovative solutions to enhance scalability, performance, security, RESTful API design, and message queue integration.
• Define and enforce architectural standards, best practices, and coding guidelines to ensure consistency and maintainability across projects.
• Stay abreast of emerging technologies, trends, and industry best practices in cloud computing, software architecture, application security, client-server communication, RESTful API design, message queue systems, and evaluate their potential impact on our architecture and technical stack.
• Mentor and coach junior members of the team, fostering a culture of continuous learning and technical excellence.
• Collaborate with security teams to ensure that the architectural designs meet the required security and compliance standards, and incorporate appropriate security measures, including encryption, access controls, and application security.
• Design and implement secure client-server communication protocols and mechanisms, ensuring data confidentiality, integrity, authentication, and RESTful API security best practices.
• Integrate message queue systems into the architecture to enable asynchronous communication between microservices and improve system scalability, reliability, and performance.
• Drive architectural decisions and provide technical leadership in resolving complex technical challenges and issues related to application security, client-server communication, RESTful API design, and message queue integration.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• Proven experience as a Software Architect, with a focus on designing highly scalable and reliable systems in cloud environments, preferably AWS.
• Hands-on experience with a wide range of AWS services such as EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, DynamoDB, ECS, EKS, etc.
• Strong understanding of cloud architecture principles, microservices architecture, distributed systems, and containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
• Proficiency in designing and implementing RESTful APIs and microservices-based architectures, including API versioning, authentication, authorization, and documentation.
• Experience with message queue systems such as Amazon SQS, Amazon SNS, Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc.
• Experience with Agile development methodologies and DevOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code (IaC), and automated deployment.
• Solid understanding of application security principles, common vulnerabilities, and best practices for secure software development.
• Experience in designing and implementing secure client-server communication protocols and mechanisms.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to think strategically while paying attention to detail.
• Experience with End-to-End Encryption (E2EE) is a plus, but not mandatory.