Senior Software Architect

About this role

<p><strong>Please note that we will only be able to accept candidates who have the appropriate rights and documentation for employment in India.</strong></p> <p><strong>Who We Are.</strong></p> <p>Axi is a leading global provider of margin and deliverable Foreign Exchange, Contracts for Difference (CFDs), and Financial Spread betting. Our business has evolved into a world-class, multifaceted brokerage with offices in six regions. With heavy investment in the latest trading technology, Axi seeks to offer the most comprehensive end-to-end trading experience available, servicing traders of all levels from beginners to institutional-level clients.</p> <p><strong>Let's talk about the cool stuff you will do at Axi!</strong></p> <p class="" data-start="299" data-end="700">At <strong data-start="302" data-end="309">Axi</strong>, we’re looking for a passionate and forward-thinking <strong data-start="363" data-end="392">Senior Software Architect</strong> to lead the design and development of high-quality, scalable software solutions across our global platforms. You will play a key role in setting the architectural vision, guiding best practices, and enabling cross-team collaboration to ensure our systems are robust, secure, and aligned with business goals.</p> <p class="" data-start="702" data-end="1099">In this role, you’ll collaborate with technical leads and subject matter experts, shaping architectural blueprints and roadmaps, while also mentoring developers and promoting excellence in engineering practices. This is a hands-on position ideal for someone who thrives at the intersection of design and code—bringing architectural vision to life with clean, efficient, and maintainable solutions.</p> <p><strong>Your EDGE Assignment/You Will<br></strong></p> <ul> <li>Define and document target architecture blueprints and patterns for .NET Core microservices, React/React Native frontends, and Azure cloud infrastructure.</li> <li>Guide the design of high-availability, low-latency systems including API gateways, messaging architecture, caching strategies, and circuit breaker patterns for trading platforms.</li> <li>Establish observability standards: structured logging, distributed tracing, metrics, SLOs, and alerting practices across the organization.</li> <li>Lead architecture reviews, threat modeling, and Proofs of Concept for significant initiatives, evaluating technology choices and design trade-offs.</li> <li>Advise on Kubernetes (AKS) strategies, containerization, container registries, and deployment patterns (GitOps, blue-green, canary).</li> <li>Define infrastructure-as-code standards, CI/CD pipeline architecture, and DevOps tooling to enable safe, fast deployments.</li> <li>Guide data architecture decisions across SQL Server, Cosmos DB, Databricks, and data lake storage for transactional and analytical workloads.</li> <li>Partner with Security and Compliance teams on architectural security, regulatory requirements, and audit-friendly designs.</li> <li>Mentor senior engineers, architects in training, and technical leads to grow architectural maturity across the organization.</li> </ul> <p style="padding-left: 40px;"><strong>Technical Requirement<br></strong></p> <ul> <li>Deep knowledge of .NET Core microservices, Domain-Driven Design (DDD), Clean Architecture, CQRS, and event-driven design patterns.</li> <li>Expert-level Azure experience: App Services, AKS (Kubernetes), Service Bus, Event Grid, API Management, Cosmos DB, SQL Database, Key Vault, Storage, monitoring (Application Insights).</li> <li>Strong Kubernetes/AKS expertise: cluster design, networking, security (RBAC, network policies), resource management, autoscaling, and GitOps principles (FluxCD, ArgoCD).</li> <li>Solid understanding of DevOps: CI/CD pipelines (Azure Pipelines, GitHub Actions), infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, ARM templates), containerization (Docker), and deployment patterns.</li> <li>Experience designing resilient systems: circuit breakers, retries, bulkheads, timeouts, fallbacks, and chaos engineering practices.</li> <li>Strong grasp of observability: structured logging, distributed tracing (Application Insights, OpenTelemetry), metrics (Prometheus), and alerting (e.g., Azure Monitor, Datadog).</li> <li>Knowledge of security architecture: API security (OAuth2, JWT, mTLS), secrets management, encryption, and defense-in-depth strategies.</li> <li>Experience with data architecture patterns and considerations (OLTP/OLAP, relational/NoSQL, eventual consistency).</li> </ul> <p><strong>Are you the one?</strong></p> <ul> <li>7–14+ years of software engineering with significant architectural leadership and hands-on technical depth.</li> <li>Proven track record architecting and operating large-scale, distributed systems in production (ideally fintech, trading, or other mission-critical domains).</li> <li>Strong ability to communicate complex architecture and design decisions to both technical teams and executive stakeholders.</li> <li>Demonstrated influence over organizational practices, standards, and technology choices across multiple teams and geographies.</li> <li>Comfort with ambiguity and ability to evaluate trade-offs between innovation, performance, cost, and regulatory requirements.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Axi's bag of…