Principal Architect

**Job Title - Principal Architect**

**Location - Bangalore**

At AliveCor, we imagine a healthier world powered by access to personalized intelligent information. We're on a mission to be the worlds heart health partner by enabling access to quality heart care for everyone. AliveCor has pioneered over-the-counter medical ECG devices and continues to lead the way in empowering consumers and patients to take care of their heart. Using our FDA-cleared medical-grade hardware and software, millions of users have taken more than 300 million heart health measurements and counting. Our vibrant team of people are attracted to AliveCor because they want to build something meaningful - and AliveCor delivers: every day, customers tell us that weve saved lives. Join us in our mission

**The Opportunity**:
AliveCor is the most clinically validated personal ECG technology, trusted and recommended by leading cardiology practices in the United States and around the world. We value research, working in collaboration with hospitals and research groups, and supporting internal research in artificial intelligence and machine learning.

The Principal Architect, with experience working with GoLang, Java, Docker/Kubernetes and AWS, will be an integral member of our engineering team, responsible for our platform architecture.

**Role and Responsibilities**
- Architect and design solutions in collaboration with product and engineering leadership
- Track record with integrating latest AI technologies (e.g. LLMs) to greatly enhance end to end customer experience.
- 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 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.

**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)**

**Perks and benefits**

We strive to make your life outside work as smooth as possible while you're at work, and we offer a long list of benefits to make that happen.
- Hybrid working model
- Flexible and generous vacation policy
- Maternity / Paternity Leave/ Adoption/ Commissioning leave
- Generous Medical Benefits Above market family floater medical insurance coverage including both parents
- Metro connectivity from office
- Complimentary lunch is provided in the office
- A supportive, collaborative group of people who understand that success depends on the team