Lead Software Architect

At n2y, we are the leader in the Special Education market. We help teachers and students both academically and behaviorally. If you want to help make a difference in shaping the future of education in a fun, fast-paced, supportive culture, come join us! We aim to build resources and solutions in which all learners see themselves represented, and doing this well requires people who care about the educators, students, and families we serve. As a rapidly growing company, we are also always looking for different approaches and unique perspectives to fulfill our potential.

You would be joining n2y at a very exciting time. Continuing to build on our success, we are looking to further innovate for impact to our end users. We are combining our deep in-house expertise with in-depth user research to rethink the classroom experience. You can help us figure out how to effectively bring together offline and online user experiences and technologies such as GenAI, machine learning, and predictive analytics to innovate in the classroom.

As Lead Architect, your experience and leadership will help guide the product engineering team to continue to evolve in all aspects of technical excellence. You will lead and mentor across our technical stack and end to end software development lifecycle, including DevOps. You will work cross-functionally with Product and Design peers to guide our technical roadmap and decision-making in bringing the best products and user experiences to life.

If you are a great software architect with extensive experience and are passionate about technology, people, and thoughtfully crafted products, we'd love to talk to you.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and oversee application architecture and software design for complex distributed systems and applications, with a particular emphasis on .Net-based cloud solutions
• Collaborate with senior members of the Engineering, Product, and Design teams to shape and drive our technical strategy and vision, leveraging Azure services, best of breed software, and engineering best practices
• Effectively communicate and collaborate across functions and groups to influence the strategic direction, driving improvements in the technology stack, user experience, and technical standards and practices
• Solve complex problems without overly complex solutions
• Provide expert technical leadership and mentor other architects and engineers
• Elevate engineering and operational excellence by setting and maintaining high standards and best practices in scalable distributed systems design
• Help ensure software meets all requirements of quality, security, modifiability, extensibility, and other best practices
• Foster a positive, collaborative, and empathetic culture that empowers team members to grow and succeed
• Operate in a rapidly evolving environment, adapting and prioritizing as needed to ensure success
• Be a business-minded and product-oriented technical leader, maintaining a focus on delivering outstanding products
• Understand strategic goals of the business
• Hands-on development where needed, including prototyping and technical spikes

Desired Skills and Qualifications:

• 15+ years of software development and design experience, with a strong background in .Net-based solutions and Azure services
• Extensive technical experience in designing and implementing SaaS products at scale, with a strong emphasis on quality, reliability, maintainability, and scalability
• A history of mentoring and coaching senior and junior engineers, fostering their technical potential and growth
• Demonstrated experience leading cross-team strategic efforts, influencing decisions to achieve cross-team alignment on major goals
• Proven expertise developing simple and efficient architectures to address complex problems
• Experience in designing modern event-driven architecture into the product utilizing cloud-native technologies
• Experience with large-scale database solutions, including relational databases and SQL
• Experience in building concurrent data streaming and real-time pub-sub systems (e.g., Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, Azure Storage Queues)
• Good verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to articulate and evangelize complex ideas simply and clearly
• Familiarity with Blazor or React a plus