Senior Architect

Who We Are:

Beyond is a leading online furniture and home furnishings retailer, headquartered in the USA, with an innovative Software Development base, in Sligo that build and support the e-commerce platforms for our global retail sites.
 

What We Do:

We innovate to deliver simple, fast, secure, and delightful experiences for our customers, partners, and teams. Our software engineering teams thrive in our positive, open, excellence driven and innovative culture. Our team members play a critical role in keeping that magic.

​The Software Architect helps define the strategic direction for software development at Beyond, Inc., enables software development teams to deliver business value in a timely, sustainable fashion, and collaborates with software development teams to translate business needs into technical solutions to power shopping experiences for bedbathandbeyond.com, overstock.com, and zulily.com (coming soon). 

What you will do 

• Lead technical solutioning and design in collaboration with technology teams; writing detailed design documents and creating technical diagrams to establish and communicate a shared technical vision 
• Establish and document non-functional requirements for technical solutions 
• Identify and mitigate technical risks for software projects 
• Provide technical guidance and support to technology teams 
• Define and document enterprise-wide standards and recommended practices for technology teams 
• Stay current with emerging technologies and recommended practices in the industry 
• Evaluate and select third-party technology partners, including conducting proofs-of-concept for new technologies to evaluate how they fit into our ecosystem 
• Work with technology teams to explore improvements in techniques, patterns, and technologies used in application development, conducting training sessions as needed 

Skills required 

• 8+ years of practical experience in Software Engineering 
• 1+ years in a software leadership or staff engineer role or greater 
• Experience building high performance, scalable web applications, preferably e-commerce 
• Excellent communication skills, including organizational, interpersonal, written, and verbal communication 
• Deep understanding of non-functional requirements, including security, regulatory compliance, reliability, scalability, observability, etc., how to define them, measure them, and deliver them 
• Deep understanding of the entire software development lifecycle 
• Ability to work independently with little oversight 
• Ability to make tradeoffs for cost, scope/effort, risk, and quality 

What We Value: 

• Life/Work Balance
• Pride in Production
• Trust
• Challenge yourself, inspire others
• Success through diversity

Equal Employment Opportunity:

It is our commitment to ensure that all employment decisions are made without regard to gender, civil status, family status, sexual orientation, age, disability, race, religion and membership of the Traveller community, (protected characteristics under the Employment Equality Acts 1998-2011).