About the job

Type: Full Time

Location: Hybrid

Minimum qualifications:

• Education & Experience: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience. 8+ years of hands-on experience in software engineering, including building production-grade applications using Java (Spring Boot, Hibernate) and related technologies.
• System Architecture: Proven experience designing and implementing complex distributed systems or microservices architectures. Strong ability to design and build RESTful APIs and service-oriented architectures that are scalable and maintainable.
• Database & Storage: Experience working with relational databases, especially PostgreSQL, including data modeling and performance tuning.
• Cloud, Containers & CI/CD: AWS (EC2, ECS, RDS, S3, CloudWatch), Docker/Kubernetes; Git/GitHub with GitHub Actions; IaC (Terraform or CloudFormation); strong CI/CD pipeline design.
• Agile Experience: Experience working in agile/Scrum teams, collaborating with cross-functional roles in a fast-paced development cycle. Comfortable breaking down epics into technical tasks and adapting to iterative feedback.
• Technical Leadership Skills: Ability to create high-level and low-level architecture diagrams and lead technical discovery/design sessions. Demonstrated experience guiding engineering teams through complex technical decisions without direct authority.
• Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Ability to effectively communicate complex technical concepts to both technical teams and non-technical stakeholders, and produce clear technical documentation.
• Analytical Problem-Solving: Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving abilities. Capable of performing root cause analysis on complex issues and guiding the team in troubleshooting efforts.
• Language: Fluent in English, with the ability to collaborate with an international team and articulate ideas clearly in discussions and documentation.
• Testing & Quality Assurance: Experience with unit testing, integration testing, and end-to-end testing frameworks to ensure code quality and reliability. Familiarity with test-driven development (TDD) practices is a plus.
• Security Best Practices: Knowledge of app‑sec and secure coding (OWASP), secrets management, least privilege; familiarity with compliance considerations.

Preferred qualifications:

• Domain Knowledge: Experience with purchasing systems, ERP software, or supply chain management in an industrial context. Familiarity with raw material sourcing or procurement processes is a strong plus.
• Front-End Exposure: Basic understanding of front-end web technologies such as JavaScript and React.
• Scalability & Architecture: Experience with global-scale, multi-region architectures is a plus. Comfort with concepts of load balancing, caching, and resiliency for enterprise-grade SaaS applications. Familiarity with NoSQL databases is a plus for designing flexible storage solutions.
• Certifications: Relevant industry certifications are a plus – for example, AWS Certified Solutions Architect, TOGAF (Enterprise Architecture), or SAFe Agilist.
• GRC & Observability: Awareness of NIST/ISO 27001/SOC 2/GDPR; familiarity with APM/monitoring practices.
• Methodologies: Prior experience with formal architecture review processes or frameworks, and familiarity with Agile at scale or DevOps culture.

About The Role

As a Technical Architect, you will serve as the crucial bridge between business and engineering teams. You will work closely with Business Analysts, Product Owners (PO), and the Product Strategy Lead to ensure that our platform’s technical design aligns with both the product’s functionality and the domain-specific needs of industrial procurement. Developing a deep understanding of Sourcing Value’s product features and the raw material procurement domain will be essential for making informed architectural decisions.

In this hands-on role, you will guide high-level architecture decisions with a focus on scalability, maintainability, and security. Senior IC role focused on architectural leadership and technical excellence (no line management). You will remain deeply involved in the technical implementation, collaborating with stakeholders to translate business use cases into architectural frameworks and detailed technical specifications for the engineering team to execute.

Responsibilities

• Business → Architecture: Turn epics/use cases into target architectures, HLD/LLD, and ADRs/RFCs; facilitate design workshops with BA/PO/CPO.
• System Design: Define service boundaries, REST APIs, data models, and deployment patterns for a cloud‑native microservices platform.
• Non‑Functionals: Set guardrails for scalability, availability/reliability, security, performance, and cost; align SLO/SLA and observability with DevOps.
• Integrations & Tooling: Evaluate 3rd‑party tools/services for data, performance, security, and governance; recommend fit‑for‑purpose options.
• Delivery Support: Lead critical design/code reviews; prototype where valuable; troubleshoot system‑level integration/performance issues.
• Planning & Risk: Provide sizing, impact, dependencies, and risk mitigation for roadmap items; prevent technical debt via early trade‑off calls.
• Stakeholder Alignment: Keep product, engineering, and CS/Sales aligned on client scenarios and integration constraints; publish concise ADRs/RFCs and Confluence updates.

About Us:

An Applied Invest company, Sourcing Value turns decades of raw-material sourcing know-how into a cloud-based enterprise decision platform, allowing businesses to automate sourcing needs to save time and money.

Sourcing Value is the first of its kind, strategic analytics software-as-a-service platform uniquely focused on raw material procurement for Fortune 500 industrial companies. It was founded on the belief that current digital sourcing solutions fundamentally do not go far enough to address raw materials, inform strategic decision-making, or empower users to rise above mundane data challenges. Sourcing Value carves out its competitive advantage by creating a self-sustaining data ecosystem that effectively replaces Excel and manual analysis while relentlessly saving both money and time for our users.

Created by veteran management consultants with decades of experience implementing world-class strategies and Excel-based tools for raw materials, Sourcing Value has a well-proven value proposition and industry reputation. By joining the Sourcing Value team, you will have the exciting opportunity to transform the way some of the world’s most influential companies procure their raw materials.

Our product development pipeline will support steel, plastics & resins, aluminum, copper, corrugate, and every major industrial material with well-defined solutions for category management, fact-based negotiations, and strategic initiatives execution.

About Applied Invest:

Applied Invest is the family office and social impact arm spun out of the Applied Value Group, focused exclusively on investing in and scaling high-potential businesses and purpose-driven initiatives. Rooted in a legacy of hands-on consulting, investments, and philanthropy, we apply a Lean Growth philosophy to create long-term value, both financial and societal.

Originally founded by Bruce Grant and Jan Stenbeck in 1997, the Group pioneered a results-first approach that blends strategy, execution, and ownership. Today, Applied Invest builds on that foundation, investing with an owner-operator mindset, deploying operational expertise, and driving impact beyond profit.