Senior Backend Software Architect

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🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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ImmunityBio, Inc.

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501 - 1000 employees

🏥 Healthcare

💼 Consulting

🏭 Manufacturing

Healthcare • Consulting • Manufacturing

ImmunityBio, Inc. is a biotechnology company focused on developing innovative immunotherapies to enhance the immune system's ability to fight cancer and infectious diseases. By harnessing the power of the body’s immune response, ImmunityBio aims to provide breakthrough treatments that can improve patient outcomes and longevity in challenging diseases.

📋 Description

• Drive technical excellence across the organization through hands-on software development, system architecture, and strategic technical leadership • Design scalable, resilient, secure, reliable, performant, and maintainable backend systems • Evaluate and select technologies, frameworks, and infrastructure based on scalability, security, and cost efficiency • Create and maintain architectural decision records, technical roadmaps, and system design documentation • Translate business objectives and technical requirements into architectural designs, implementation roadmaps, integration patterns, technical specifications, and acceptance criteria • Define system boundaries, service interfaces, data flows, and architectural standards for distributed systems, APIs, event-driven services, and enterprise integrations • Provide hands-on leadership through prototyping, critical-component development, code reviews, design reviews, and resolution of complex engineering challenges • Establish standards for API design, authentication, authorization, validation, error handling, versioning, and backward compatibility • Design data architectures supporting transactional integrity, efficient retrieval, consistency, protection, retention, and recovery • Incorporate security and privacy requirements throughout the software development lifecycle • Partner with DevOps, infrastructure, and security teams on automated pipelines, infrastructure as code, environment controls, and secure releases • Define observability and operational-readiness requirements, including logging, metrics, tracing, alerting, service-level objectives, runbooks, and disaster recovery • Collaborate with product management, frontend engineering, quality assurance, data engineering, cybersecurity, and business stakeholders • Mentor engineers and technical leads and promote consistent engineering practices • Support major production incidents through technical investigation, systemic-cause identification, and corrective-action recommendations • Review exceptions to architectural standards and communicate risks, trade-offs, and mitigation plans to leadership • Drive innovation initiatives, R&D projects, and emerging technology adoption • Create, edit, and adhere to Standard Operating Procedures, process improvements, and standardized templates • Perform ad-hoc and cross-functional duties or projects supporting business needs and development opportunities

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a computer science field with 10+ years of relevant experience is required • 10+ years of professional software engineering experience is required • 3+ years of experience in architecture or technical lead capacity is required • Advanced proficiency designing, developing, and supporting production backend applications • Advanced proficiency in one or more backend programming languages, such as Java, C#, Python, Go, or TypeScript • Deep understanding of distributed systems, concurrency, asynchronous processing, fault tolerance, idempotency, retries, caching, and consistency trade-offs • Strong knowledge of modular monoliths, microservices, service-oriented architecture, event-driven architecture, and domain-driven design • Expertise in RESTful APIs and enterprise integration patterns; familiarity with GraphQL, gRPC, webhooks, and message-based interfaces • Strong knowledge of relational and nonrelational databases, schema design, indexing, query optimization, transactions, replication, and data migration • Experience with message brokers, event-streaming platforms, background processing, and durable workflow orchestration • Proficiency with at least one major cloud platform—Microsoft Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud • Experience with containers, orchestration, serverless computing, infrastructure as code, source control, and CI/CD pipelines • Strong understanding of secure software design, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, role-based access control, least privilege, and sensitive-data protection • Experience implementing automated unit, integration, contract, end-to-end, performance, and security testing • Ability to define and assess availability, latency, throughput, recovery, and capacity requirements • Familiarity with operational monitoring, centralized logging, distributed tracing, incident management, and root-cause analysis • Ability to assess technology costs, licensing implications, vendor dependencies, and total cost of ownership • Excellent analytical, problem-solving, documentation, and communication skills • Ability to influence without direct authority, mentor engineers, resolve technical disagreements, and maintain alignment across multiple teams • Experience working in regulated or security-sensitive environments is preferred • Outstanding written and verbal communications skills • Outstanding analytical, mathematical, and creative problem-solving skills • Must possess mobility to work in a standard office setting and use standard office equipment • Ability to lift and carry materials weighing up to 20 pounds

🏖️ Benefits

• Professional development opportunities • Medical, Dental and Vision Plan Options • Health and Financial Wellness Programs • Employer Assistance Program (EAP) • Company Paid and Voluntary Life/AD&D • Short-Term and Long-Term Disability • Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts • 401(k) Retirement Plan with Company Match • 529 Education Savings Program • Voluntary Legal Services • Identity Theft Protection • Pet Insurance • Employee Discounts, Rewards and Perks • Paid Time Off (PTO) • 11 Holidays • Unlimited PTO for exempt employees • 10 Vacation Days for non-exempt employees • 56 Hours of Health Pay for non-exempt employees • 2 Personal Days for non-exempt employees • 1 Cultural Day for non-exempt employees • Flexibility within standard business hours with manager approval

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