As the Lead Product Architect, you provide technical leadership and architectural direction for our products. You lead the other architects through mentoring, hands-on assistance, and establishing a high bar for technical rigor. You have an insatiable curiosity. You’re a fast learner, deeply technical, and able to dig in on any problem with minimal direction to design and present logical solutions. You are a data-driven decision-maker who always supports his or her proposal with empirical evidence. You have an innate understanding that the technical environment should ultimately achieve business goals.

A Product Architect owns all technical matters related to his/her assigned products. This ownership includes: designing and orchestrating feature implementations; maintaining, guiding, and improving the architectural integrity and evolution of the products; and ensuring best practices and architectural guidelines are followed for the products.

In this role, there are two primary functional areas with a breakdown of duties as follows:

 Architecture & Development:

• Develop a deep understanding of the product code base through hands-on experimentation and exploration
• Assess and shepherd the technical delivery of products to ensure adherence with best practices
• Continually improve team development processes
• Collaborate with the Product Management Team and other stakeholders, contributing to the product roadmap, product requirements, and product release schedule
• Identify gaps in the technical aspects of the end user experience
• Estimate software development requirements and effort, propose alternatives, and prioritize development tasks for a given area

 Engineering Leadership & Mentoring:

• Serve as the team lead - mentoring other architects, building a culture of trust and rigor, and guiding global software development teams in developing the best technical designs and implementation approaches
• Participate in and initiate activities to improve process and product quality in pursuit of excellence
• Foster proactive collaboration among technical teams where  integration is required
• Propose and design better systems as feasible

• Willingness and capability to learn quickly with minimal direction
• Data-driven and relentless in researching options to ensure the very best outcomes
• Performance and efficiency obsessed
• Ample experience building successful production software systems
• Experience with software testing products, including TestRail highly desirable
• Deep understanding of team-based software development
• Track record of delivering high-quality, GA-ready software on time
• Ability to take raw product requirements and develop software architectures and designs to bring products to life
• Mastery of the tools of the trade, including a variety of programming languages

Key TestRail technologies include PHP, MySQL, Javascript

• Ability to work independently and collaboratively
• Strong communication skills with the ability to communicate details, designs, rationale, and build consensus
• Ability to prioritize and manage work to critical project timelines in a fast-paced environment
• Highly organized in a manner to achieve effective communication and drive successful results from self and team
• Excellent English verbal and written communication skills; able to explain technical issues to non-technical roles
• Desire to be challenged and deliver high-quality results in a successful technical and business environment