Bold. Results. Rauxa is the full-service agency helps brands such as Verizon, Alaska Airlines and Audi to grow and thrive through Personal Digital Transformation. Founded in 1999 and with a uniquely independent spirit, Rauxa is powered by a team of over 300 creators, technologists, scientists and practitioners with locations in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Orange County and Dallas. Rauxa is part of Publicis Media, one of four solution hubs within Publicis Groupe.

Rauxa is seeking an experienced, hands-on Architect who has a passion for designing and working on complex, enterprise software solutions. The right candidate for this position is a full stack developer with extensive experience in both front end and back end concepts. This person has great communication and technical skills, as well as experience working in an agency environment on enterprise grade projects.

While we are currently working remotely, this role would ideally be located in our Irvine or Santa Monica, California offices once we reopen.  This is a freelance/temporary position.

What You’ll Do:

• Be responsible for guiding, delivering and leading software solutions that address business/technical needs or challenges for our clients
• Be a seasoned veteran on technology consulting, cloud application design, implementation as well as leading teams and projects, and will have multiple successful implementations
• Be responsible for mentoring and delivering development teams that are in-house, near-shore or offshore
• Make occasional meaningful contributions to the code base
• Lead and provide expertise in one or more technical work streams critical to the overall product
• A champion of coding best practices, this person provides the development team with direct support, technical oversight and helps to resolve team impediments
• Lead architecture and design of high impact projects
• Provide hands-on development support to in-house, near-shore or offshore project teams.
• Review code for best practices, readability, and functional alignment with stated business goals.
• Work with business analysts and product owners to ensure technical translation of functional and non-functional requirements while balancing the needs for performance, scalability, reliability, time to market and overall timeline
• Articulate conceptual, logical and physical solutions on behalf of Rauxa for the development of a proposed solution
• Provide accurate estimates of effort required to develop and deploy a proposed technical solution
• Participate in client meetings and presentations to set expectations and to discuss client responsibilities, requirements, initiatives and concepts
• Maintain a strong understanding of industry and enterprise-wide trends and best practices
• Identify and manage risk on projects
• Contribute technical requirements to stories against the product roadmap
• Maintain architectural backlog of stories to improve business value in the product
• Help business teams assess feasibility and provide technical POV on stated goals
• Take ownership of process and execution of release and regression delivery cycles

Who You Are:   

• You have a bachelor’s degree in concentrations of computer science, management information systems, computer engineering or equivalent work experience preferred
• You have 6 or more years of work experience in multiple technology disciplines, software development, application architecture and deployment strategies
• You have 6 or more years working in an agile environment delivering software at scale
• You have experience in coding and debugging in one or more of the following:  Javascript/NodeJS, Java, Python, Bash (required)
• You have experience with NodeJS frameworks like Express or Sails (required)
• You have experience with one of the following: Vue, Angular or React (required)
• You have experience in building and leading technical teams
• You have excellent communication skills and ideally client-facing experience; digital or marketing agency preferred
• You have a background with distributed systems, databases and performance analysis
• You have experience with web technologies and AWS cloud services. Eg: API Gateway, Lambda, EC2, SQS, SNS etc.
• You have deep understanding of front-end concepts and popular languages/libraries
• You have experience with unit and load testing methodologies
• You are familiar with infrastructure as code, experience with Terraform is a plus
• You have excellent communication and client management skills, with the ability to be a good listener, and fully understand a client business problem
• You have general knowledge of Business Intelligence software packages
• You have a deep understanding of front-end concepts and popular languages/libraries.

Sound like you? We'd love to hear from you!

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.