Software Architect (.NET) - Europe

About Smartcat

Smartcat is on a mission to become the wall-to-wall Language AI platform, addressing the diverse needs in multilingual content for various user personas within global enterprises. 

Smartcat is uniquely positioned within the $100+ billion multilingual content industry, which is currently served by tens of thousands of agencies. This results in a highly fragmented and inefficient supply chain, high costs, unacceptable turnaround times, and quality issues. Using highly qualified internal resources to translate or create multilingual content (insourcing) solves the quality problem for enterprises, but if done manually, it can't solve for scalability, high cost, and slow turnaround.

Smartcat changes the ROI equation in favor of insourcing with its Language AI platform for enterprise end-users. It delivers high-quality, instantaneous AI translations or generates new content in any language by tapping into a customer-specific multilingual content library. The AI output is further refined through human editing by the client's internal reviewers or experts from the Smartcat's embedded global marketplace of linguists and content editors. This AI output continuously improves through the editing feedback loop, ensuring consistent and customer-tailored results.

More than 1,000 global companies including ~20% of the Fortune 1,000 trust Smartcat to communicate their innovations and ideas all over the world.

As a dynamic Series C company, Smartcat is growing at 130% YoY, thanks to the high and quick ROI it delivers to global enterprises. It's well-funded by notable VCs, and is capital efficient, offering a unique blend of hyper-growth potential with downside protection and the capacity for long-term planning and strategy.

Mission

Smartcat is growing rapidly in the enterprise segment. Your mission will be to lead and improve the system's code and architecture to provide greater efficiency, platform’s performance and innovation. 

Outcomes 

• Scalability and Performance: Formulate strategies to boost Smartcat's system scalability and performance, ensuring it can handle x10-x100  increase in demand of our users.
• Codebase Enhancement: Champion improvements in the codebase, applying best practices (including AI first development) to improve readability, maintainability, and overall code quality.
• Process Optimization: Define and fine-tune architectural processes and practices, simplifying workflows for efficiency, consistency, and smooth integration of architectural changes into the development lifecycle.
• Monolith Codebase Decomposition: Direct the strategic initiative to break down Smartcat's monolithic architecture, aiding the shift towards a more modular and scalable system.
• Security focused approach: Drive the improvement of security best practices in architecture and code creation.

Requirements

Must-have

• Extensive experience with .NET Core development for designing and building scalable and performant web applications.
• Frontend architecture experience.
• Ability to pinpoint and rectify performance bottlenecks in .NET Core applications.
• Strong communication skills to convey architectural decisions and solutions.
• Proven experience in decomposing monolithic applications into microservices for improved scalability and maintainability.
• Upper-Intermediate English proficiency: both written and spoken.
• A data-driven approach with the ability to justify decisions using concrete metrics.
• Experience with one of the Cloud infrastructure providers (AWS/Azure/GCP).
• Experience with Secure development practices and understanding of security frameworks (OWASP, SSDF or equivalent).

Highly Desired

• Strong proficiency in MongoDB database design and administration is a plus.
• Industry security certifications (CISSP, CompTIA Security+, NCSF) 

Our technologies

• PL: .NET Core
• DB: MongoDB, PostgreSQL
• AWS as a main cloud solution
• Elasticsearch, ELK (EFK) for logging, Victoria metrics, Prometheus and Grafana for metrics and monitoring

Why joining Smartcat might be your best move so far

• Fully remote team
  We are a global team of 200+ enthusiastic people spread across 30+ countries. We have been fully remote since 2020, with some locations populated with more Smartcaters than others, such as Boston, NYC, SF, the Bay Area, London, and Lisbon.
• Innovating a $100 Billion industry
  Smartcat’s innovative approach towards multilingual content, taps into a $100B industry. Our platform enables enterprise end users to stop using traditional outsourcing methods, and start enjoying an easy-to-use, AI-powered SaaS, that delivers immediate high-quality results, at a fraction of the cost.
• High impact role enabling innovation and inclusion in organizations
  You will enjoy building with us. You will drive changes in how an old-fashioned global language industry operates while improving how hundreds of thousands of people work and millions of people exchange knowledge and ideas worldwide. 
• Join the rocketship to scale-up 10x and beyond together
  We are looking for someone to become an integral part of our team and play a crucial role in the most exciting part of our journey: transitioning from a post-Series C startup to a company exceeding $100M in ARR and $1B in valuation. Our journey isn’t for the faint of heart. We are growing at 130% YoY, thanks to our strong product-market fit and high-performing team, and plan to accelerate from here. 
• Smartcat Culture: Where Diversity Meets High Performance
  At Smartcat, we are committed to building a culture that highlights respect and appreciation for each individual's unique background and perspective, while maintaining a strong focus on results and clear, honest and direct communication. We believe in welcoming everyone and fostering an inclusive environment where team members can be their authentic selves at work. Our commitment to diversity and inclusion is steadfast, and we stand firmly against discrimination and harassment.