Job description
Job Title: Lead Architect (.NET Full Stack with AI)
Key Skills: .NET Core, Angular 8+, C#, SQL, Azure, Microservices, Development Using AI Tools/Services (not AI model development)
Location: Work From Home - Remote Opportunity - Anywhere from India can apply.
Working Hours: 11:00 AM – 8:00 PM IST
Employment Type: Full-time | Regular Employment
Job Summary:
The Lead Product Architect owns the strategic direction of product architecture for our suite of solutions built using Microsoft Technologies and Azure. This role partners with senior leadership team.
We expect the Architect to maintain active engagement with coding to stay close to the realities of the codebase. Coding may not be the primary responsibility, but hands-on development is essential to retain technical insight and credibility.
Beyond coding expertise, the Architect must bring deep knowledge of applying modern AI technologies—such as LLMs—across the entire software development lifecycle. This includes leveraging AI tools for requirements analysis, technical documentation, development planning, and understanding their limitations.
We’re seeking a leader who has significant practical experience designing and maintaining complex distributed systems. The Architect must be deeply familiar with concepts such as eventual consistency, event-driven architecture, loose coupling, and separation of concerns, with the ability to foresee and prevent the pitfalls of tightly coupled or overly complex systems.
An understanding of DevOps and CloudOps is equally critical. Architects must know how applications behave in production, how to troubleshoot, and how to design systems for operational excellence.
We want someone who has worked on multiple significant projects and who brings not just technical knowledge, but the wisdom gained from diverse real-world architectural challenges. The ideal candidate is open-minded, collaborative, and capable of constructive debate to reach the best solutions.
Job Responsibilities
- Product Architecture Leadership: Lead the design and implementation of product architectures using Microsoft technologies and Azure services, ensuring solutions meet performance, scalability, security, and maintainability requirements.
- AI Across the SDLC: Expertly utilize large language models (LLMs) such as GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, or Claude not merely for code generation but across the entire software development lifecycle—including requirements analysis, preparation of technical documentation, development planning, and optimizing workflows while being aware of AI limitations.
- DevOps & CloudOps Integration: Collaborate closely with DevOps and CloudOps teams, ensuring that architectural decisions account for deployment pipelines, monitoring, performance, reliability, and operational excellence in production environments.
- Hands-On Development: Maintain active involvement in coding to stay connected to the evolving codebase, particularly for complex features, prototypes, and architectural proofs-of-concept.
- Team Leadership: Lead a team of Product Architects, Development Managers, and Software Engineers, ensuring that all projects are executed with technical excellence and delivered on time.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with Product Managers, Designers, DevOps/CloudOps, and QA Engineers to ensure alignment between product vision and technical execution.
- Optimization & Best Practices: Champion development best practices including CI/CD, unit testing, code reviews, performance optimization, and modern DevOps techniques. Architects should understand how the application operates in production and be prepared to solve issues that arise there.
- Distributed Systems Architecture: Design and lead the implementation of distributed systems that are modular, scalable, maintainable, and loosely coupled. Demonstrate deep understanding of concepts such as eventual consistency, event-driven architecture, domain-driven design, and avoiding tightly coupled, mixed-responsibility systems.
- Continuous Improvement: Stay current with emerging trends in Microsoft technologies, cloud computing, distributed systems, and AI, and integrate new tools and methodologies into the product lifecycle.
- Stakeholder Communication: Present technical solutions and architectural strategies to senior leadership and other stakeholders, ensuring alignment between business goals and technical implementation.
- Mentorship: Provide guidance and mentorship to junior architects and engineers, fostering a collaborative and growth-oriented environment.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- 12+ years of hands-on experience in software architecture for SaaS solutions with Microsoft Technologies, including C#, ASP.NET, Web Services, MS SQL, Web API, and Visual Studio.
- Substantial experience working on multiple significant projects involving complex distributed systems, with exposure to different architectural drivers and decision-making contexts. We value breadth of exposure over simply long tenure in a single environment.
- Deep expertise in distributed systems architecture, including:
- Eventual consistency
- Event-driven architecture
- Loose coupling and separation of concerns
- Awareness of potential pitfalls in distributed system design (tight coupling, mixed responsibilities, maintainability challenges)
- Strong understanding of DevOps and CloudOps practices, with clear insight into how applications behave in production environments, including monitoring, troubleshooting, and performance optimization.
- Hands-on expertise in front-end technologies such as JavaScript, jQuery, Angular (2+), Bootstrap, CSS, and HTML. (Note: Node.js is not required.)
- Deep Azure architecture expertise, including services like App Services, Azure Functions, Cosmos DB, Azure DevOps, and Active Directory.
- Expertise in applying AI-driven technologies—including LLMs—for tasks beyond coding, such as requirements analysis, documentation, and planning.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, capable of articulating technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Proven ability to lead and mentor a cross-functional team of architects, developers, and engineers.
- Open-minded and collaborative mindset, with a willingness to engage in constructive discussions and explore alternative solutions.
Preferred Qualifications
Many of these are strongly required for success in this role rather than purely optional.
- Significant experience designing and maintaining distributed systems and cloud-native applications on Azure.
- Experience with microservices architecture and understanding its trade-offs and benefits.
- Familiarity with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
- Strong understanding of modern DevOps practices, including infrastructure as code, automated deployments, and monitoring.
- Previous experience developing and managing enterprise-level web applications and distributed systems.
- Contributions to open-source projects or published research in AI, cloud architecture, or software engineering.
About the Company
We are a global team of innovators and advocates transforming how financial data is captured, stored, and manipulated with our comprehensive suite of automation technology. Our platform seamlessly integrates with your existing ERP for an unrivaled end-user experience. We do the heavy lifting so accounting, procurement, and fundraising teams can do their best work.
PairSoft’s aspires to be the strongest procure-to-pay platform for the mid-market and enterprise, with close integration to Microsoft Dynamics, Blackbaud, Oracle, SAP, Acumatica and Sage ERPs.
At PairSoft, we are passionate about innovation, transparency, diversity, and advocating on behalf of our customers and communities we support. We offer exciting career opportunities and a collaborative culture that allows individuals to learn, grow, and create meaningful impact. We are expanding and seeking team players who are eager to jump in and contribute to our rapid growth!
PairSoft is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status or any other protected status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please email us at: [email protected].
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