Principal Architect

**Lead / Principal Architect**

AliveCor, the pioneer of the smartphone EKG, with millions of EKGs from a large and growing user base, seeks a Principal Architect. You will be an integral member of our engineering team working.
**Responsibilities**
- Architect and design solutions in collaboration with product and engineering leadership
- Hands-on software Engineer working in the following environment**:Go**, **Java**, **Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, AWS.**:

- Create and maintain tools used by internal teams for customer service, monitoring, and R&D.
- Maintain and continuously improve our backend infrastructure to remedy technical limitations before they become an issue.
- Actively participate in development along with team members for as much as 50% of your time, creating modules & systems that can then be treated as a working reflection of the best practices.
- Driving code reviews, design reviews, and architecture discussions.
- Experiment with new & relevant technologies and tools, and drive adoption while measuring yourself on the impact you are able to create
- You will be the primary owner of the architecture of your suite of products and will also be responsible for getting it reviewed, and making sure the system is built accordingly.

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Qualifications and Skills*
- Excellent problem-solving skills for complex & large-scale problems.
- Technical Breadth - Exposure to a wide variety of problem spaces, technologies.
- Very strong System design skills with a nifty ability to craft clean interfaces and operate at the right levels of abstraction.
- Solid coding skills with the ability to drive teams through massive refactoring exercises & improve coding standards across large codebases.
- Deep knowledge, understanding & experience of working with a large variety of multi-tier architectures. Awareness of pitfalls & use cases for a large variety of solutions.
- Deep understanding & experience of high-performance web-scale & real-time response systems with - Experience & expertise in a variety of large scale persistent systems including large databases.
- Exposure to complete product development cycles - From inception to production to scaling up, supporting new requirements, re-architectures - the Architects should have seen it all and ideally in multiple cycles. Should have been part of scalable product development cycles with either large data handling or large transaction processing exposure for 5+ years.
- Hands-on software engineer with **15+ years of relevant experience**:

- Strong experience working with **Go **and **Java**:

- Strong knowledge of **AWS** & **Kubernetes**:

- Knowledge or interest learning **Ruby on Rails** would be an added advantage
- Experience implementing **Service Oriented Architecture** or **Microservices**:

- Product instincts, work with our product and design teams to understand customer pain points, come up with solutions, and then prototype, iterate, and launch frequently
- Eagerness and willingness to learn new technologies
- Experience with build process automation and **CI/CD (Gitlab, Travis)**

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About Us*
AliveCor is on a mission to define modern healthcare through data, design and disruption. We’ve pioneered the creation of FDA-cleared machine-learning techniques, transformed wearable medtech to put proactive heart care at everyone’s fingertips. Kardia is the most clinically validated mobile EKG technology. AliveCor was named as one of the Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Health for 2017 by Fast Company as part of the publication’s annual ranking of the world’s Most Innovative Companies. AliveCor was awarded the 2015 Tech Pioneer by the World Economic Forum and one of the 50 Smartest Companies in 2015 by the MIT Technology Review. AliveCor recently announced a collaboration with Mayo Clinic that will result in new machine learning capabilities to unlock previously hidden health indicators in EKG data, potentially improving heart health as well as overall health care for a variety of conditions. AliveCor is a privately held company headquartered in Mountain View, CA.
AliveCor is an equal opportunity employer and will not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of age, colour, disability, gender, national origin, race, religion, sexual orientation, or any other classification protected by federal, state, or local law.
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