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Software Architect

Vendavo

Vendavo

IT
Indiranagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Posted on Feb 27, 2026
We’re a growing team, and as we scale, so does our need to expand our engineering team. You’ll be joining a people-focused company, and as a Software Architect. This role offers the opportunity to influence, improve architecture and engineering practices, and shape the future of a core Vendavo product while working on both modern technologies and robust services.

THE OPPORTUNITY

  • Architecture & Technical Leadership
  • Define and own the technical roadmap for the platform, aligning architecture decisions with business objectives and product strategy.
  • Design scalable, resilient microservices architectures using event-driven patterns (Event Sourcing, CQRS), message brokers (Kafka, Kinesis, SQS), and Data Mesh principles.
  • Champion event-driven development practices across teams, designing domain events, event schemas, pub/sub topologies, and asynchronous communication patterns for loosely coupled services.
  • Lead the architectural transformation from legacy monolithic systems to modern, event-driven, cloud-native services.
  • Establish and enforce architectural standards, design patterns, coding guidelines, and technology guardrails across engineering teams.
  • Conduct architecture reviews, threat modeling, and technical feasibility assessments for new features and platform initiatives.
  • Hands-On Development & Design
  • Write production-grade code in Node.js and Python, contributing to critical system components, proof-of-concepts, and performance-sensitive modules.
  • Design and optimize complex ETL pipelines and data workflows involving Amazon DocumentDB (MongoDB-compatible), MySQL on RDS, and other AWS-native data services.
  • Lead database schema design, query optimization, and data migration strategies across MySQL (RDS) and DocumentDB.
  • Architect CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, infrastructure-as-code, and deployment automation targeting AWS EKS (Kubernetes) and other managed services.
  • Drive the migration of legacy ETL processes (e.g., Talend) to native Python/Node.js-based data pipelines with improved reliability and maintainability.
  • Collaboration & Mentorship
  • Partner with the Engineering Manager to translate business requirements into implementable technical designs and sprint-ready work items.
  • Mentor and coach developers and QA engineers across both Scrum teams, raising the technical bar through design reviews, pair programming, and knowledge-sharing sessions.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, DevOps, Security, and other engineering teams to ensure cohesive platform evolution.
  • Drive technical decision-making through RFCs, ADRs (Architecture Decision Records), and collaborative design sessions.
  • Quality & Security
  • Champion engineering excellence: testability, observability, performance, and security-by-design.
  • Drive adoption of automated testing strategies (unit, integration, contract, and performance testing).
  • Lead security architecture reviews, penetration test remediation, and vulnerability management.
  • Establish SLOs/SLIs and monitoring/alerting strategies to ensure platform reliability.
  • AI driven development, Good To have
  • Lead the design and integration of Generative AI solutions including LLM-powered copilots (e.g., Claude Code), Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems, and Model Context Protocol (MCP)-enabled architectures.
  • Architect scalable and secure GenAI frameworks leveraging Amazon Bedrock, embeddings, vector databases, and advanced prompt orchestration strategies.
  • Establish governance, monitoring, and guardrails to ensure responsible, reliable, and cost-effective deployment of enterprise GenAI capabilities. Good To have

THE SKILL SET

  • 12 + years of professional software engineering experience with at least 3–4 years in an architect or senior technical leadership role.
  • Deep expertise in Node.js with hands-on experience building enterprise-grade backend services and APIs.
  • Strong proficiency in Python for data engineering, ETL pipelines, scripting, and automation.
  • Solid experience with Amazon DocumentDB (or MongoDB) and MySQL on AWS RDS, including schema design, indexing, and query optimization.
  • Demonstrated experience designing and implementing microservices architectures, RESTful APIs, and event-driven systems.

THE BENEFITS

  • Professional growth and Development opportunities.
  • Working within a team of friendly, skilled people where help is always within reach
  • Flexible working hours
  • 4 recharge days, where the entire company goes on a brief pause in all geographies for 1 day each quarter. This day can be spent in whatever way helps you recharge, to regain energy, and dive back into the next workday
  • High-end laptop (Dell or Mac)
  • Competitive pay and bonus
  • 18 vacation days in a year in addition to 15 days Sick Leave/ Casual leave per calendar year.
  • 16 hours of paid volunteer time off per year
  • Wedding gift and newborn gift allowance for employees.
  • 26 weeks of paid maternity leave and one week of paid paternity leave.
  • 12 wellness leaves for women employees
  • Health Insurance of up to 7 lacs for self, spouse, 4 dependent children, and parents. 100% of the premium is paid by Vendavo and it covers the employee, spouse, children, and their parents.
  • Group Term Insurance coverage up to three times of their Annual CTC . Dependents are not covered.
  • Group Personal Accident coverage up to three times of Annual CTC. Dependents are not covered.
  • Provident fund contributions
THE VENDAVO STORY
Vendavo partners with the world’s leading companies to accelerate growth and profitability, advance innovation, and build more prosperous communities. Our powerful, cloud-based, AI-powered pricing, selling, and prescribing solutions empower global manufacturers and distributors to manage, optimize, and digitize their end-to-end commercial processes. But we offer so much more than software. Our proven, repeatable process, and passionate, experienced people accelerate value and drive profitable, unrivaled business outcomes for our customers. We are passionate about helping our customers deliver the right products, at the right prices, at the right time, for the right people.
OUR SAAS PRODUCTS
Our B2B pricing and selling solutions include Vendavo Intelligent CPQ, Margin Bridge Analyzer, Profit Analyzer, Business Risk and Sales Alerts, Vendavo Sales Optimizer, Deal Price Optimizer, Vendavo Pricepoint, and Rebate & Channel Manager. You can learn more about our products here.
OUR FUNDING
We are backed by two of the top high-tech private equity firms in the world, have excellent financial health, and boast the top SaaS retention in our space.
OUR CULTURE & YOU
We collaborate with our customers unlike any others in our industry. Anchored in our values (Move with Integrity, Be Clear, Win as One, Solve for the Customer, Build What’s Next), we are growing, constantly innovating, and consistently driving sustainable outcomes for our clients and partners.
Unlocking opportunities for our customers would not be possible without our employees. When you are part of Vendavo, you’re part of a company that’s committed to your growth and invested in your career. Diversity, inclusion, and celebration of community are at our core, and we come together to learn from each other and honor our commitments.
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OUR TEAM IS GROWING. YOU WILL TOO.