Associate Architect

Job Description ?

Associate Architect
(Full Stack)

Experience: 7?10 Years

About the Role
Mpokket is looking for a hands-on Associate Architect to design, build, and evolve scalable,
resilient, and secure enterprise applications. The ideal candidate should possess strong
backend engineering expertise, solid system design skills, and experience building cloud-native
distributed systems. The role requires balancing architecture, hands-on development, technical
leadership, production excellence, and mentoring engineers.

Key Responsibilities
? Design scalable, resilient, and highly available distributed systems.
? Define solution architecture and drive technical design discussions.
? Design and review microservices, REST APIs, and event-driven architectures.
? Collaborate with engineering teams to build secure, high-performance applications.
? Review architecture, design, and code to ensure engineering best practices.
? Identify and address scalability, reliability, performance, and security challenges.
? Drive production readiness through observability, monitoring, and operational excellence.
? Mentor engineers and promote engineering best practices.
? Work closely with Product, Engineering, DevOps, and SRE teams to deliver high-quality
software.
? Stay current with emerging technologies and modern software engineering practices.

Must Have Skills

Backend Development
? Strong programming experience in Java (17+)
? Hands-on experience with Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Data, Spring Security
? Strong understanding of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP), SOLID Principles, and
Design Patterns
? Experience designing and developing RESTful APIs
? Experience building scalable, high-performance backend applications

System Design & Architecture
? Strong understanding of Microservices Architecture
? Experience designing scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant distributed systems
? Strong knowledge of:
? High Availability (HA)
? Scalability
? Event-Driven Architecture
? API Gateway
? Caching
? Load Balancing
? Rate Limiting
? Circuit Breaker Pattern
? Retry Mechanisms
? Idempotency
? Distributed Transactions
? Performance Optimization
? Secure Application Design
? Experience participating in architecture reviews and technical design discussions

Databases
? Strong experience with:
? MySQL
? PostgreSQL
? MongoDB
? Redis
? Experience with:
? Database Design
? Query Optimization
? Indexing
? Transactions
? Performance Tuning
? High Availability and Replication

Messaging & Event Streaming
? Hands-on experience with:
? Apache Kafka
? RabbitMQ
? Experience building asynchronous and event-driven systems
? Understanding of:
? Producer/Consumer patterns
? Consumer Groups
? Dead Letter Queues (DLQ)
? Retry Strategies
? Message Ordering
? Message Durability

Cloud & Platform
? Hands-on experience with AWS and/or GCP
? Experience with cloud-native application development
? Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes
? Understanding of container orchestration, deployment strategies, scaling, and production
operations

Frontend (Architecture & Operations)
? Working knowledge of frontend application architecture from a deployment and
operations perspective
? Understanding of frontend frameworks such as React, Angular, or Vue.js
? Experience with frontend deployment, CDN/Web Server configuration, authentication
flows, API integration, monitoring, and production troubleshooting
? Ability to collaborate effectively with frontend engineering teams to design end-to-end
solutions

Observability & Production Engineering
Hands-on experience with one or more of:
? Datadog
? New Relic
? ELK Stack
? Grafana
? Prometheus
Experience with:
? Application Monitoring
? Distributed Tracing
? Log Analysis
? Alerting
? Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
? Performance Monitoring
? Production Incident Management

Technical Leadership
? Experience leading architecture and technical design discussions
? Experience mentoring engineers
? Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
? Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities

Nice to Have

Programming & Platform
? Python
? OpenTelemetry
? Elasticsearch
? CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI)
? Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation)

AI / ML
? Basic understanding of AI/ML concepts and practical enterprise use cases
? Experience building or integrating AI-powered applications
? Exposure to AI/LLM frameworks such as:
? LangChain
? LlamaIndex
? Spring AI
? CrewAI
? AutoGen
? Semantic Kernel
?

Familiarity with:
? Large Language Models (LLMs)
? Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
? AI Agents
? Vector Databases
? MCP (Model Context Protocol)
? Experience using AI-powered developer tools such as Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Claude
Code, or similar

Architecture
? Domain Driven Design (DDD)
? Clean Architecture
? Hexagonal Architecture
? API Gateway platforms
? Service Mesh
? Feature Flag platforms

Domain Experience
Experience in one or more of the following domains:
? FinTech
? Digital Lending
? Payments
? Banking
? Financial Services

Candidate Profile
? 7?10 years of software engineering experience with a strong backend engineering
background.
? Proven experience designing and building large-scale distributed systems in production.
? Hands-on engineer with an architectural mindset.
? Passionate about solving complex engineering problems and improving system
reliability.
? Strong ownership, collaboration, and mentoring skills.
? Comfortable working across architecture, development, production support, and
engineering excellence initiatives.

Recruiter Screening Checklist
Mandatory
? ? 7?10 years of experience
? ? Java & Spring Boot
? ? Microservices Architecture
? ? System Design
? ? MySQL / PostgreSQL
? ? MongoDB
? ? Redis
? ? Kafka
? ? RabbitMQ
? ? AWS and/or GCP
? ? Docker & Kubernetes
? ? Datadog / New Relic / ELK / Grafana / Prometheus
? ? Experience designing scalable distributed systems
? ? Working knowledge of frontend deployment and operations
? ? Experience mentoring engineers or leading technical initiatives

Preferred
? ? Python
? ? AI/ML exposure
? ? LangChain / LlamaIndex / Spring AI / CrewAI / AutoGen
? ? Cursor / GitHub Copilot / Claude Code
? ? OpenTelemetry / Elasticsearch
? ? FinTech / Payments / Banking / Digital Lending experience

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