Senior Software Architect in Atlanta, Georgia at FinQuery

Leads the technical vision for at least one product line and provides ongoing direction and feedback across teams to advance that vision

Establishes quality standards and drives system design decisions that prevent defects, leading material improvements that eliminate recurring classes of problems

Serves as the team's expert resource on AI-driven development practices and LLM usage, advocating for and driving adoption of AI-assisted development tools across the engineering organization

Leads participation in the full development life cycle, including requirements gathering, analysis, and design, taking ownership of significant components

Evaluates business risk and customer impact to make strategic technical trade-off decisions

Mentors engineers in technical decision-making, including risk evaluation and trade-off analysis

Proactively identifies and resolves complex problems, implementing sustainable solutions that prevent recurrence

Defines, communicates, and owns architectural decisions, including tenancy models, service boundaries, performance and cost tradeoffs, extensibility, and safe upgrade paths, to meet current and future needs for scaling, performance, security, and reliability

Identifies and implements process improvements across the engineering organization

Creates and reviews system designs, applying appropriate architectural patterns, idioms, and data structures

Takes full ownership of assigned work and team deliverable quality, including advancing test automation strategy and implementation, and is highly accountable for how software performs in production

Ensures comprehensive documentation across all development phases and guides others in producing it

Contributes directly to code on an ongoing basis using approved AI-assisted development tools

Leads post-acquisition technical integration efforts, including data migration planning, security assessments, and compliance evaluation

Partners regularly with Product, Professional Services, and Sales to align technical execution with business and customer requirements

Conduct all business in accordance with FinQuery policies and procedures

All other duties as assigned

Typically requires a minimum of 10 years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree; or 8 years and a Master's degree; or a PhD with 6 years' experience; or equivalent experience with a typical range of 12-15 years

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or related field preferred

History of architecting and delivering enterprise-scale software systems in production environments

Background in mentoring or leading technical direction in an individual contributor capacity, without formal people management responsibility

Track record working within an AI-augmented software development workflow, such as Claude Code or comparable agentic development tools

Recent work with AWS, C#, Containerized workloads, ORMs, and GitHub Actions

Postgres and React knowledge is a plus