Senior Architect

At Navi, principal engineers are technically hands-on leaders at the helm of large projects, leading right from defining the vision to writing bullet-proof code (and everything in between). They mentor and grow senior and lead engineers, systematically solve org-wide issues, and are the ones who we trust to shape the future of our engineering.
Responsibilities:
Become the tech owner for Navi's most complex and impactful projects.
Define, own, and implement a long-term technology vision for your team(s).
Define and Own the end-to-end architecture of your team(s).
Create components/libraries/services/utilities to be used across the team/org wherever required.
Set up and ensure adherence to engineering best practices by partnering with the engineering manager/director and tech leads.
Raising the bar for quality, availability, resiliency, and uptime of the platform
Collaborate with other principal engineers and architects to establish Navi-wide engineering best practices, systematically solve cross-cutting issues, and standardize tooling and technologies.
Mentor and grow senior engineers and tech leads.
Represent Navi at various engineering forums and engage as Navi's brand ambassador in the tech community.
Requirements:
First principle thinking, strong problem solving, and analytical skills.
9+ years of software engineering engineering experience with at least 2+ as a senior team lead/principal/ staff engineer.
Prior experience in modeling complex domains and architecting extendable and scalable systems.
Technically hands-on with excellent coding skills (Java / Kotlin / Go), and a good understanding of the runtime, security, network, and infra components (like databases and messaging queues).
Previously demonstrated excellence in engineering practices and mentoring.
Ability to influence and collaborate with various technical (engineers, managers, directors, program managers) and non-technical stakeholders.
Previous experience and ability to elegantly solve highly ambiguous problems spanning across teams and functions.

Experience
13-17 yrs