Tempo Software is seeking an Architecture Manager to join the team! You will lead the architecture team across all Tempo products to help build, communicate, and align the organization around a robust unified technical architecture and process. You will work with 160+ engineers across multiple teams to find and analyze current and anticipate future technical challenges with their projects or products. You will work in an entirely distributed company and help define an entirely new space while learning about how an organization scales on a hyper-growth trajectory!

What You'll Do - 

• Discuss, formulate, and document a vision for architecture and approaches in all Tempo software products
• Detail out and refine higher-level architecture decisions into a lower-level design
• Lead the implementation of technical and infrastructure initiatives to support architecture decisions
• Effectively communicate architecture decisions and recommendations to garner support, enhance visibility, and achieve alignment across the product and engineering teams
• Assist stakeholders in navigating diverse demands for the organic evolution of architecture
• Ability to lead and collaborate effectively within cross-functional teams, fostering a positive and inclusive working environment
• Provide overwatch and review the work of the teams to ensure that the architecture decisions are being executed and the teams are following coding standards and architecture guidelines
• Consult the engineering and product teams with ongoing projects
• Constantly develop yourself and the team in technology advancements, research new approaches, tools and best practices in the software architecture and design space
• Ensure technical knowledge sharing between development teams on related or similar projects
• Lead the research on specific topics, experiment with various technologies, and provide recommendations based on you and your team’s findings
• Proactively identify technical debt and product areas that require attention or improvement at the architecture level
• Suggest improvements to our technology stack to optimize it for strategic growth and the competitive advantage of Tempo
• Assist the architecture team members in collaborating, learning new architectures and methodologies, and growing professionally

Who You Are - 

• 2+ years experience defining system architecture and leading software architecture team(s)
• 8+ years of experience as a software developer with experience architecting and delivering large scale cloud-based systems in multiple settings, including legacy system modernization
• Experience in balancing academic principles with fast paced pragmatic engineering best practices to deliver software products
• Proven ability to lead and work within geographically distributed engineering teams
• Influence and mentoring skills and competencies, with an ability to transfer knowledge to junior and senior members of engineering teams
• Works well with others and is a skilled communicator both written and verbal 
• Experience with interacting with external customers, technology partners and executive teams to establish strong working relationships
• Experienced with shipping commercial products using agile software development methodologies
• Excellent time management skills, with the ability to prioritize and work under shifting deadlines with potentially ambiguous or nebulous requirements in a fast-paced environment
• Ability to quickly assess multifaceted problems and complex situations and recognize patterns to identify and resolve the root cause
• Ability to analyze new technologies, emerging standards and market trends, and understand how they affect products today and, in the future
• Balance various architecture qualities in proposals, encompassing security, maintainability, fault-tolerance, extensibility, backward compatibility, availability, confidentiality, integrity, usability, performance, and cost-reduction.
• Display a holistic understanding of short- and long-term implications of architectural choices.
• Extensive Experience in Java, Python and Go
• Experience working with or building SAAS systems and unified UI libraries
• Clear understanding of software design patterns and principles
• Experience with a variety of web application designs, including monolithic and SOA, understanding of service breakdown and communication principles
• Experience with Event Driven and MicroService based Architectures
• Commitment to quality; you take pride in everything you deliver as a reflection of yourself.
• Occasional international and regional travel
• Degree in Computer Science or equivalent studies would be an asset
• Command a strong grasp of public cloud technologies, experience with AWS is a plus
• Experience with Atlassian Marketplace Applications, preferred

What's In It For You - 

• Remote First Work Environment!
• Unlimited vacation in most of our locations
• Great benefits including health, dental, vision and savings plan
• Perks such as training reimbursement, WFH reimbursement, and more
• Diverse and dynamic teams with challenging and exciting work
• An opportunity to have a real impact on our business
• A great range of social activities (both in person and virtual)
• Optional in person meet-ups and the ability to travel to our international offices
• Employee referral program

Come join us as we continuously innovate our industry-leading products and expand to new ecosystems. We are looking for exceptional candidates who will bring their unique perspectives to our global teams.

As one of the largest, award-winning, and top-selling app vendors in the Atlassian Marketplace, supporting over 20,000 customers worldwide, we hire top talent who build with heart and succeed with others. Our product suite of road mapping, project portfolio management, time management, resource planning, and reporting insights provides solutions that enable organizations to manage large portfolios of work successfully from strategic planning to successful execution.  

At Tempo, we’re on a mission to help modern, forward-thinking product and engineering teams work better. Come join us as we continuously innovate our industry-leading products and expand to new ecosystems.

At Tempo Software, we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and are committed to creating an inclusive culture. As such all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.