Application Architect – AI Native Startup

Responsibilities Collaborate with the team to find strong solutions to new types of problems in an AI-first architecture Drive a DevOps-style approach across the full specification → development → delivery lifecycle (inspired by the DevOps Handbook) Propose and implement approaches to make delivery faster and more reliable (e.g., improving flow, feedback loops, and recovery) Implement and evolve monitoring/observability across systems (metrics, logs, traces, alerting) so we can detect issues early and learn from production Coach and collaborate with junior developers on good development, design and architecture practices Collaborate with the team to develop an AI-driven development process from feature specs down to production deployment Plan & document backend architecture in the Arc42 framework Extend & communicate the domain model using DDD principles Manage and extend application infrastructure on Azure with Pulumi Requirements You are comfortable with architecture principles and practices, including: C4 modelling, Arc42 framework, Design patterns You are highly experienced in TDD and/or BDD You are opinionated and passionate about good design Experience with Domain Driven Design (DDD) Deep experience with Java and Spring Boot A strong DevOps mindset (the DevOps Handbook is your bible) and experience building: reliable CI/CD pipelines and release processes, production-grade monitoring/observability and incident response practices, continuous improvement loops (post-incident reviews, operational learning, and prioritizing reliability work) Experience leading and enabling development teams Absolute must-haves: SOLID principles & clean code, TDD, IntelliJ power-user, Claude Code (or comparable AI-assisted development workflows), Azure or AWS infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform, Bicep, or CloudFormation) Hard Skills Java Spring Boot TDD BDD DevOps CI/CD Domain Driven Design SOLID principles clean code architecture principles Soft Skills collaboration coaching leadership communication problem-solving design mindset organizational skills opinionated design #J-18808-Ljbffr