Software Architect

Location: Holon (Hybrid)

About us:

Sapiens International Corporation (NASDAQ and TASE: SPNS) empowers the financial sector, with a focus on insurance, to transform and become digital, innovative, and agile. Backed by 40 years of industry expertise, Sapiens offers a complete insurance platform, with pre-integrated, low-code solutions and a cloud-first approach that accelerates customers’ digital transformation. Serving more than 600 customers in 30 countries, Sapiens offers insurers across Property & Casualty, Workers’ Compensation and Life markets the most comprehensive set of solutions, from core to complementary, including Reinsurance, Financial & Compliance, Data & Analytics, Digital, and Decision Management. Sapiens’ team of more than 5,000 employees operates through our offices in North America, the UK, EMEA and Asia Pacific.

Job Description:

The Digital R&D Group Software Architect main responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Own complete solutions across their entire cycle.
• Drive the overall architecture of solution and infrastructure within the team and across the organization, including the design scale-up, DevOps architecture, processes, and methodologies.
• Work closely across teams and disciplines to shape the solutions and make sure they provide value to Sapiens’ customers.
• Work with product strategists, product architects, and product management leaders, and end-users to understand and influence business strategy and support it with a technical platform strategy.
• Drive architecture and solution implementation across multiple feature teams.
• Debug and investigate live-site issues to ensure proper availability of our solution.
• Investigate and prototype new technologies, frameworks, security, industry standards and best practices.
• Foster a culture of agility, innovation, and customer-focus within the team.
• Lead by example; develop a high level of technical excellence globally (including but not limited to participating in the design, code, and test reviews).
• Mentor more junior team members professionally.

Requirements:

 Globally: 13 years experience.

• 3+ years experience frontend and backend systems architecture, owning complete solutions end to end and driving the overall solution/infrastructure architecture, including but not limiting to:
  • Proven track record of engineering large-scale, high availability, and consumer web applications.
  • Ability to understand unfamiliar codebases, debug client, and service side applications.
  • Strong product design & development experience in an Agile development environment. 
• 10+ years experience hands-on development and design experience in relevant technologies:
  • One or more frontend frameworks especially React.js., and HTML 5, CSS 3, JavaScript / jQuery.
  • Deep knowledge of ReactJS + ecosystem, practices, and commonly used modules.
  • Experience in Backend web development in NodeJs.
  • Experience with microservices architecture, preferably in cloud environments and backend architecture.
  • Knowledge and proven experience in continuous integrations and design of deployment (CI/CD), DevOps tools, and methodologies.

• As well as:
  • Excellent creative thinking together with debugging / troubleshooting / problem-solving skills.
  • Excellent communication and collaborative skills.
  • Ability to prioritize and handle multiple tasks independently and to generate clarity in ambiguous situations.
  • Strong leadership skills and a passion for mentoring junior professionals.

Educational requirements:

• BS or higher degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
   

Languages:

• Fluent English and Hebrew (verbal and written).

Sapiens is an E-Verified & Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, M/F/D/V.