Enterprise Software Architect

Josys; Bengaluru; Presencial; INR 4.000.000 - 7.000.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Josys is seeking a skilled Full Stack Enterprise Software Architect to design, develop, and maintain scalable cloud-native SaaS applications. You will drive architecture strategy and governance, partnering with Product, Security, and Infra to align technology decisions with business needs.

The role emphasizes building scalable microservices, secure patterns, and high availability across regions, with a strong focus on Node.js, AWS, and modern CI/CD practices.

Formación

• 10+ years of software engineering with at least 6 years in a hands-on Architecture role designing and delivering scalable enterprise SaaS platforms.
• Proven experience architecting and building cloud-native SaaS applications capable of supporting high growth and large-scale distributed workloads.
• Strong expertise in distributed systems, microservices, RESTful APIs, GraphQL, and event-driven integration patterns.

Responsabilidades

• Define and drive enterprise architecture strategy, roadmaps, and engineering standards to support growth and scalability.
• Lead architecture governance and design reviews for consistency, security, reliability, and maintainability across engineering initiatives.
• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Infra, Security, and Compliance to align tech decisions with business goals.
• Architect cloud-native SaaS platforms and distributed systems using Node.js and microservices.
• Define secure architecture patterns including authentication, authorization, encryption, audit logging, and secrets management.
• Design observability, resiliency, disaster recovery, multi-region readiness, and automated scaling patterns.
• Optimize cloud architecture, operational efficiency, and platform cost management.
• Establish API architecture standards and integration frameworks for secure communication across systems.
• Mentor teams on architecture best practices and design reviews.

Conocimientos

Node.js

Cloud-native architecture

SaaS

CI/CD

Terraform

Kubernetes

AWS

RESTful APIs

GraphQL

Security best practices

Educación

Bachelor's or Master's in CS

Herramientas

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Kubernetes

Docker

Descripción del empleo

Software Architect

About Josys

Josys is a modern AI-native identity security and governance platform. Enterprise AI adoption has made identity the fastest-growing attack surface, and the hardest to govern. Josys discovers, governs, and secures every identity - human, machine, and AI agent - across every application in the enterprise, allowing security and IT teams to surface risk, control access, and remediate identity threats in real-time. Trusted by over 1,000 organizations and MSPs worldwide, Josys turns identity from the fastest-growing attack surface into an autonomously governed advantage.

For more information, visit josys.com.

About the role

We are seeking a skilled Full Stack Enterprise Software Architect to join our team and help us build innovative and scalable applications for Josys. The ideal candidate will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining full-stack software that meet our company’s business requirements and user needs.

To be successful in this role, the candidate must have a strong understanding of software architecture and design principles, as well as experience working on SaaS applications. Additionally, the candidate MUST have experience with scaling applications and systems preferably working on building cloud native SaaS applications in 1→10 or 10→100 growth scenarios.

Key Responsibilities:

• Define and drive enterprise architecture strategy, technology roadmaps, and engineering standards aligned with business growth objectives and long-term platform scalability.
• Lead architecture governance and design review processes to ensure consistency, scalability, security, reliability, and maintainability across all engineering initiatives.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, Infrastructure, Security, and Compliance teams to align technology decisions with business priorities and operational goals.
• Architect and design scalable, resilient, secure, and high-performance cloud-native SaaS platforms and distributed systems leveraging Node.js and modern microservices architectures.
• Define secure architecture patterns aligned with SOC2, ISO27001, GDPR, and enterprise security best practices, including authentication, authorization, tenant isolation, encryption, audit logging, and secrets management.
• Design cloud-native platform capabilities including observability, resiliency, fault tolerance, disaster recovery, multi-region readiness, and automated scalability.
• Partner with engineering and infrastructure teams to optimize cloud architecture, operational efficiency, system reliability, and platform cost management.
• Define and implement API architecture standards and integration frameworks to enable secure, scalable, and seamless communication across internal platforms and external systems.
• Collaborate with external technology partners and vendors to evaluate, integrate, and optimize third-party platform capabilities.
• Evaluate and incorporate emerging technologies, AI-assisted automation, and intelligent workflow capabilities into the enterprise platform architecture strategy where applicable.
• Create and maintain architecture documentation including system diagrams, technical standards, data models, integration specifications, and architectural decision records (ADRs).
• Mentor and guide engineering teams on architecture best practices, engineering standards, scalability principles, and high-quality software design through technical leadership and design reviews.
• Stay current with evolving trends in cloud-native technologies, SaaS platforms, distributed systems, security, and enterprise architecture practices to continuously improve platform capabilities and engineering maturity.

Requirements / Qualifications:

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering with at least 6 years in a hands-on Architecture role designing and delivering scalable enterprise SaaS platforms.
• Proven experience architecting and building cloud-native, SaaS applications capable of supporting high growth and large-scale distributed workloads.
• Strong expertise in designing and implementing distributed systems, microservices architectures, RESTful APIs, GraphQL services, and event-driven integration patterns.
• Extensive hands-on experience with Node.js and related technologies for building scalable, reliable, and high-performance systems.
• Deep understanding of cloud-native architecture and experience working with AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, and modern container orchestration platforms.
• Experience driving platform engineering, Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), and CI/CD automation initiatives using tools such as Terraform, Helm, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or equivalent technologies.
• Strong knowledge of relational and NoSQL database technologies, data modeling, indexing strategies, caching, and scalable data processing architectures.
• Experience designing secure enterprise systems with knowledge of authentication, authorization, encryption, secrets management, audit logging, and secure software development practices.
• Familiarity with enterprise security and compliance frameworks.
• Experience implementing observability, resiliency, fault tolerance, disaster recovery, and high-availability architecture patterns for mission-critical systems.
• Hands-on experience building and managing integrations with third-party SaaS platforms using SDKs, REST APIs, and secure data exchange mechanisms.
• Experience with Elasticsearch, search architecture, and scalable querying solutions is highly preferred.
• Exposure to Ruby on Rails, Golang, or additional backend technologies is a plus.
• Strong understanding of software architecture principles, design patterns, scalability engineering, and engineering best practices.
• Ability to define architecture standards, technical governance processes, and development best practices across engineering organizations.
• Strong computer science fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, concurrency, distributed computing, and system design.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills with the ability to balance technical trade-offs and business priorities.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and cross-functional collaboration skills with the ability to influence technical direction across teams.
• Experience mentoring engineers and conducting architecture reviews, code reviews, and technical design evaluations.
• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum development methodologies and experience working in fast-paced product engineering environments.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, or a related technical field.