Solutions Architect

Ibotta is looking for a Solutions Architect to join our innovative team and contribute to our mission to Make Every Purchase Rewarding. As part of the architecture team, you will work with other architects, engineering directors, business development, and project managers to successfully onboard and launch our Ibotta Performance Network partners. We're looking for a self-motivated individual who has a real passion for integrating technologies, solving challenging problems, and helping other companies architect innovative solutions using our Rewards as a Service platform. Every Solution Architect has input into our product process and will have a real impact on the success and speed of partner onboarding.

This position is located in Denver, Colorado or with the option of full-time remote. Candidates must live in the United States.

What you will be doing:

• Work with a cross-functional team, including representatives from technology and the business, to design integration solutions and onboard retailer and publisher partners onto the Ibotta Performance Network (IPN).

• Analyze current interfaces used within the company and determine ways to improve, based on partner feedback.

• Work closely with the project management team(s) to successfully monitor the progress of our partner integrations.

• Provide detailed specifications for any custom proposed solution.

• Document and monitor requirements needed to institute proposed updates.

• Contribute to our Partner Dashboard, writing technical documentation that helps our partner onboard faster, and understand our systems better.

• Provide feedback to the Platform team on missing or nice-to-have functionality.

• Embrace and uphold Ibotta’s Core Values: Integrity, Boldness, Ownership, Teamwork, Transparency & A good idea can come from anywhere

What we are looking for:

• 8+ years of experience in software development.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field

• Clear, concise written and verbal communication skills and style for both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Someone with ideally a consulting or contracting background, who can communicate effectively and professionally with clients. 

• Comfortable consolidating ambiguous requirements into tangible action-items that can be relayed to the engineering and product teams.

• Comfortable with fast paced environments, ability to adapt to changing environments, and lead amidst ambiguity.

• Technical leadership skills are essential.

• Well-organized, resolute, and goal-oriented in terms of achieving objectives and key results while keeping the bigger organizational goals and successes in mind.

• Professional experience interacting with other companies and their high level executives

• Advanced knowledge of distributed systems.

• Advanced understanding of business analysis techniques and processes.

• Current understanding of best practices regarding system security measures.

• Working knowledge of asynchronous and event based architecture.

• Working knowledge of Unix/Linux.

• An understanding and knowledge of high throughput systems.

• Deep understanding of RESTful APIs.

• Comfort working within a cloud-based infrastructure, ideally AWS.

Some of the traits that we seek in great architects:

You….

• love to work with outside clients.

• love to be the point person from a technical perspective.

• love to teach and learn from your co-workers and clients.

• look for ways to continually challenge yourself and develop as an engineer.

• understand that communication is a huge part of your software engineering responsibility and practice it daily.

• respect diverse perspectives and like collaborating with other engineers to solve hard problems.

• trust your teammates, and embrace healthy conflict and debate. You are not afraid to voice your opinions, but you are okay with not always being right.

About Us:

Built in Denver, CO, Ibotta, Inc. ("I bought a...") is a free mobile shopping app that gives users cash back on groceries and more. Through our partnerships with brands and retailers like Procter & Gamble, Kraft Heinz, Kellogg, Amazon, Walmart, Target and Uber, we’ve delivered over $1.25B in cumulative cash rewards to our Savers. Guided by our values and our mission to make every purchase rewarding, we come to work energized by the business problems we get to solve, the technology we get to build, and the people we get to innovate (and have fun) with. Ibotta made Inc.’s 2020 list of the 5000 fastest-growing private companies in the U.S. for the third consecutive year. In 2019, we became the first mobile consumer technology company in Colorado to achieve $1B in valuation.

To learn more about what our Tech teams are doing day to day, visit Building Ibotta on Medium.com

Additional Details:

• This position is located in Denver, CO or with the option of full-time remote and includes competitive pay, flexible time off, benefits package (including medical, dental, vision), Lifestyle Spending Account, 401k match, and equity.

• Base compensation range: $160,000 - $180,000. Total compensation for this role also includes a variable component in addition to base compensation. This compensation range is specific to the United States labor market and may be adjusted based on actual experience.

• Ibotta is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Ibotta’s employment decisions are made without regard of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other legally protected status.

• Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.

• For the security of our employees and the business, all employees are responsible for the secure handling of data in accordance with our security policies, identifying and reporting phishing attempts, as well as reporting security incidents to the proper channels.

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