Principal Software Architect

Geidea Established in 2008, Geidea epitomizes customer focused empowerment and commercial success through continuous innovation.

Geidea makes best in class digital payment solutions available for all by attracting and leveraging the best creative & entrepreneurial talent in the market

Our solutions give any business the chance to get ahead and reach for more no matter their size or maturity.

Our technology mirrors our people - Smart, Innovative & Forward Thinking

www.geidea.net

To maintain a competitive advantage as we grow, we are currently looking for a new "Principal Software Architect"

Job purpose:

Follow and practice System Design principals for Geidea’s core backend and platform components at Group level.

The role is responsible for the design and evolution of distributed systems, backend services, and platform components, introducing and governing key patterns and performance benchmarks, and ensuring that Geidea’s internal platforms are scalable, reliable, observable, secure, and maintainable across markets.

The System Designer works closely with product and engineering teams to align system capabilities with business goals, and with infrastructure, DevOps and SRE teams to ensure that systems are robustly deployed, monitored, and continuously improved.

Responsibilities:

Owns and undertakes System Design practice for backend & platform

• Translate the Group architecture and technology strategy into concrete system design standards, patterns, and guidelines for distributed systems and backend services.
• Maintain shared design templates, documentation standards, and guardrails to ensure consistency across squads and markets.

Design and evolve core system components

• Assess and performs the low-level designs and drafts the supporting documents and diagrams as well as the evaluation of key platform components and backend services, from ideation and prototyping through detailed design, implementation guidance, deployment, and observability.
• Balance trade-offs between scalability, reliability, maintainability, performance, and delivery speed, escalating structural decisions when required.

Introduce patterns and performance benchmarks

• Define reusable design patterns, performance benchmarks, and reference implementations aligned with Group architectures.
• Work with engineering teams to ensure high-throughput, low-latency, and fault-tolerant designs for payment and transactional platforms.

Partner with Product, Infrastructure, DevOps, and SRE

• Collaborate with Product and Infrastructure teams to align system capabilities with business goals, capacity plans, and regulatory constraints.
• Partner with DevOps and SRE to ensure system designs support robust CI/CD pipelines, roll-back strategies, observability, and disaster recovery approaches.

Owns in house and 3rd party assessments that involves systems under the corresponding engineering team accountability

• Represent engineering at TDA.
• Owns 3rd party assessments and solution agreement / alignments with EA.

Drive performance diagnostics, observability, and fault tolerance by design

• Lead performance diagnostics and design-level root cause analysis for major incidents or bottlenecks.
• Ensure observability (logging, metrics, tracing) and resilience patterns are embedded in designs.

Evaluate and integrate emerging technologies

• Evaluate emerging technologies, tools, and frameworks relevant to backend, platform, and observability, and make recommendations that improve scalability, reliability, security, or developer productivity.
• Pilot selected technologies with engineering teams and document best practices.

Qualifications:

• 10+ years in backend/software engineering, with hands-on experience building and operating distributed systems or high-throughput services.
• 4+ years in technical leadership, system design, or system architecture, guiding teams through complex design decisions and owning outcomes across multiple squads or services.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field is required.
• Master’s degree or relevant certifications (e.g., TOGAF) is a big plus

Must Have:

• Strong understanding of system architecture principles, design patterns, and software engineering best practices
• Strong knowledge of enterprise integration, APIs, microservices, and distributed systems
• Solid grasp of networking fundamentals, firewalls, load balancers, and security protocols
• Solid understanding of cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible)
• Experience with performance tuning, observability, and system reliability engineering

Preferred:

• Exposure to frontend technologies and UI/UX collaboration
• Experience in regulated industries (e.g., finance, healthcare) with compliance-aware architecture

Our values guide how we think and act - They describe what we care about the most

C ustomer first - It’s embedded in our design thinking and customer service approach

O pen - Openness allows us to constantly improve and evolve

R eal - No jargon and no excuses!

B old - Constantly challenging ourselves and our way of thinking.

R esilient – If we fail, we bounce back stronger than before.

C ollaborative - We know that we can achieve a lot more as a team.

We are changing lives by constantly striving for a better solution.