Software Architect, Back-End

POSITION OVERVIEW TED delivers conferences and media that brings communities together around Ideas Worth Spreading and delivers those ideas to millions of people around the world. As Software Architect, Back-End, you will own the back-end systems and architecture that power TED’s media, identity, and associated systems. You will build and maintain large-scale systems in Ruby on Rails backed by MySQL. You will assure the reliable delivery of service to millions of people. This is an opportunity for your work to elevate the world’s most urgent ideas on a platform with global reach and a massive audience.   RESPONSIBILITIES Ensure the successful delivery of TED’s digital platform experience through rigorous engineering best-practices including coding to team-accepted standards, test-driven development practices, CI/CD enablement, observability and alerting implementation, and thorough documentation. Deliver a technology back-end that meets demanding SLAs 24/7/365 Collaborate with product managers, engineers and stakeholders to ensure clear and consistent expectations for delivery Engage fully in program management practices and ceremonies including team including scrum-style meetings, standups, wider department meetings, use of ticketing and tracking systems and other processes that may be prescribed  Promote pairing and conduct code reviews with engineers in order to provide support, feedback and encouragement. Foster growth and support other back-end engineers through constructive, collaborative code reviews Analyze user requirements and design solutions for new features Design tools and libraries that will be used by other back-end engineers and company-wide Manage and monitor back-end testing, performance, and code quality Influence and guide the direction of our conference products back-end  Experiment with new technologies and share discoveries with the team Enthusiasm for and usage of AI-enabled workflows to accelerate the team’s work Willingness to contribute however possible to ensure overall effectiveness of the position Other duties and special projects as may be assigned from time to time     10+ years Ruby on Rails experience, including gem development or rails engines 10+ years MySQL experience 12+ years overall professional experience in software development Experienced with DevOps technologies including containerization solutions with a preference for Docker/AWS Experience authoring and delivering APIs via GraphQL strongly preferred Demonstrated success in designing complex ecosystems of web services Demonstrated experience using AI technology to accelerate coding productivity without sacrificing quality  Experience with issues of scalability, uptime and quality of service Experience with data security and privacy Experienced in additional relational and document-based database technologies Strong focus on code-quality, documentation, test-driven…