Software Architect - Configura

About the company
At Configura we always aim high. We’re already the leader of space planning solutions in the commercial interiors industry in North America, and we are now aiming to become the leading solution provider for communities who design spaces globally. Our rules-based solutions are used by designer, salespersons and engineers all over the world to design interior spaces. We primarily work within the commercial interiors, kitchen and bath, and material handling industries where we provide an open ecosystem for companies that sell highly configurable products. To do this, we always engage with simplicity and deliver with power.

Configura is headquartered in Linköping (Sweden) with four wholly owned subsidiaries in Grand Rapids (Michigan, USA), Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), Shenzhen (China) and Berlin (Germany). With more than 300 professionals globally, we are ready to take on unique challenges anywhere in the world.

At Configura, we are team players who always help each other! Our atmosphere is very friendly with committed Configurans who strive towards our goals together. We love problem solving and to find innovative solutions. We are expanding fast and with our growth plan you will have many exciting opportunities to grow and develop your skills in a high-tech environment.

Job description
Configura is in an exciting growth phase where Cloud Services will play a central part. Our ambition is to develop new cloud-based products and to do so we need a new cloud-based application platform. We aim to create a new scalable cloud native infrastructure with a tightly integrated web application framework.

We are creating a new cloud native platform for Configura to build our next-generation cloud-based products on. We have a clear development process and structured development methodology where it´s the project team that owns the project and makes the important decisions.

We offer a chance to be part of creating this, those who join now will have the opportunity to help guide the process and help shape the platform that we will work with over the next decade and beyond. We want our engineers to lead, take initiative, and push technology forward.

You will be one of the members of the Architects group that drives?Configura’s?technical product development.? ? ?

You will build strong relationships?across the company?and?understand multiple points of view and drive a process to conclusions in a timely and respectful manner. You create a supportive, cooperative fearless atmosphere where every team member can achieve?their?maximum potential and continuously grow?their?skill set.?


Your profile
You will be the talented Principal Developer?with extensive?experience and?overall knowledge of the system. We believe you will excel at design and programming at all levels and specifically at user empathy, user-interface design, naming and conventions, program structure, performance, general quality and long-term consequences.?

As a software architect, you could lay out a path across many versions guided by long-term strategic goals?and?participate in and support initiatives outside?the?main?area of responsibility.?

To be successful as a Software Architect, you should be a communicative and mature person who takes pride in your work and is driven to deliver with quality.

We believe you are someone who:

- Cares about performance/stability/scalability.
- Has experience working with scalable cloud services and/or distributed systems with high performance.
- Is communicative and have strong collaboration skill and can lead other developers to success.

WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR

- Bachelor degree and above in Computer Science or equivalent with a minimum of 10 years of relevant work experience
- Document databases, preferably DynamoDB.
- Distributed systems / eventual consistency.
- Cloud environments, preferably AWS.
- "Infrastructure as Code" tools, preferably Pulumi.
- Typed programming languages, preferably Rust.
- Modern JS frameworks, ex. React/Next.js
- Core web technologies, ex. HTML, CSS

We see our offices as hybrid offices where we combine office-based work with work remotely. The work takes place depending on the needs that prevail for the day, sometimes it is best to work from home and sometimes at the office.

Application process
In this recruitment Configura collaborates with Skill. We apply continuous selection which means we might close the process before the set ending date.

If you have any questions regarding the position or the recruitment process, please contact Pehr Gilén at pehr.gilen@skill.se or 013- 473 20 65.