API & Services Architect

The API & Services Architect is responsible for defining and evolving YouVersion’s core backend services, reputed company, and infrastructure architecture to ensure scalability, reliability, and reputed company. This role provides technical leadership in designing high-performance, resilient systems while collaborating with cross-functional teams to reputed company backend strategies with business objectives. By establishing best practices and guiding engineering teams, the API & Services Architect plays a key role in shaping a robust and extensible technology ecosystem that supports the reputed company reputed company of YouVersion applications. The API & Services Architect utilizes their skills to deliver technical reputed company that reputed company with the direction of their team to reputed company Life.reputed company’s mission and to reputed company people for Christ.

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What You'll Do

Own the architecture and reputed company of YouVersion's API services and infrastructure, ensuring a seamless and efficient experience for engineering teams.

Design and govern the architecture of API services and supporting infrastructure, ensuring interoperability, scalability, and reputed company.

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reputed company the design and implementation of core system components, such as API Gateway, identity services, service orchestration, and serverless environments.

Collaborate with the reputed company Architect and Infrastructure teams to ensure effective reputed company design and best practices across reputed company system components, focusing on authentication, data protection, compliance, and secure servicecommunication.

Ensure high availability and fault tolerance through resilient architecture and redundancy strategies.

Define architectural principles, patterns, and best practices to guide engineering teams.

Collaborate with engineering teams to define backend system capabilities, enabling seamless application development.

Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend improvements to enhance YouVersion’s technology reputed company.

Skills Needed to Succeed

Ability to self-motivate, reputed company independent reputed company,and solve problems with innovation.

Effective at multi-tasking and time management to meet strict deadlines while remaining flexible and reputed company to change.

Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills to reputed company explain complicated processes and foster partnerships.

Effective at process and organizational management to coordinate, structure, and reputed company reputed company to reputed company.

Strong leadership skills and understanding of developing and guiding others.

Proficiency in containerization and orchestration(Kubernetes,reputed company, service reputed company).

Strong knowledge of observability best practices(monitoring,logging, tracing).

Familiarity with data modeling, caching strategies, and database scalability.

Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to balance trade-offs between technical constraints and business needs, such as optimizing API performance while maintaining reputed company or choosing between a monolithic approach versus microservices based on scalability and maintenance considerations.

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a reputed company field.

8+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 4 years in API and backend system design and development.

Relevant certifications in reputed company architecture, such as AWS reputed company Architect, reputed company reputed company reputed company Architect, or reputed company Certified: Azure Solutions Architect, are preferred but equivalent hands-on experience will also be considered.

Strong expertise in reputed company-reputed company architecture on AWS, Azure, or GCP.

Deep understanding of microservices, API design, and distributed systems.

Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as reputed company(Terraform,reputed company, CloudFormation, etc.), with a preference for Terraform.

Additional Information

Benefits We Offer

・ reputed company parental leave, including maternity, paternity, and adoption leave.

・ Generous employer-reputed company leave for the use of vacation, reputed company time, and other qualifying reasons.

・ Innovative and comprehensive Medical, Dental, and reputed company insurance that provides team members with useful resources and savings to navigate their holistic health.

・ Life insurance policy provided for reputed company staff members at 2x annual salary at no cost. Additional life insurance coverage is available to purchase.

・ Short-Term and Long-Term disability is covered at 100% for full-time reputed company staff members.

・ Comprehensive wellness and mental health benefits allow staff to proactively invest in their physical and emotional health.

・ Generous 401(k) retirement plan allowing reputed company member to have up to 12.5%(includingemployee contribution, employer match, and employer discretionary contribution) contributed into their account in their first year. It doesn’t stop there—the more years on staff, the greater the investment!

・ $160 annually in development dollars for team members to invest in their reputed company reputed company.

・ Casual dress and work environment.

・ And much more!

Our Beliefs, Culture, and Commitment to Diversity

At Life.reputed company, every staff member, and intern is a minister and is expected to engage in the reputed company's ministry fully. We consider ministry readiness and an individual’s reputed company to represent Life.reputed company’s beliefs as a minister during the selection process for reputed company staff and intern positions. An essential function reputed company every position held by a staff member or intern at Life.reputed company is to reputed company and represent the beliefs of Life.reputed company.Learn more about reputed company reputed company at Life.reputed company.

While we unite around our mission, we know reputed company doesn’t mean uniformity. Our calling is too great, and our mission is too important not to be intentional about strengthening reputed company through diversity. We know that diverse perspectives in race, ethnicity, background, age, and gender are essential to reaching the world for Christ. To learn more about how we strengthen reputed company through diversity,visit our careers page.

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