Associate Architect

(Full Stack)

Experience: 7–10 Years

About the Role

Mpokket is looking for a hands-on Associate Architect to design, build, and evolve scalable,

resilient, and secure enterprise applications. The ideal candidate should possess solid backend engineering expertise, solid system design skills, and experience building cloud-native distributed systems. The role requires balancing architecture, hands-on development, technical leadership, production excellence, and mentoring engineers.

Key Responsibilities

- Design scalable, resilient, and highly available distributed systems.
- Define solution architecture and drive technical design discussions.
- Design and review microservices, REST APIs, and event-driven architectures.
- Collaborate with engineering teams to build secure, high-performance applications.
- Review architecture, design, and code to ensure engineering best practices.
- Identify and address scalability, reliability, performance, and security challenges.
- Drive production readiness through observability, monitoring, and operational excellence.
- Mentor engineers and promote engineering best practices.
- Work closely with Product, Engineering, DevOps, and SRE teams to deliver high-quality

software.
- Stay current with emerging technologies and modern software engineering practices.

Must Have Skills

Backend Development

- Strong programming experience in Java (17+)
- Hands-on experience with Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Data, Spring Security
- Strong understanding of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP), SOLID Principles, and

Design Patterns
- Experience designing and developing RESTful APIs
- Experience building scalable, high-performance backend applications

System Design & Architecture
- Strong understanding of Microservices Architecture
- Experience designing scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant distributed systems
- Strong knowledge of:

High Availability (HA)

Scalability

Event-Driven Architecture

API Gateway

Caching

Load Balancing

Rate Limiting

Circuit Breaker Pattern

Retry Mechanisms

Idempotency

Distributed Transactions

Performance Optimization

Secure Application Design





- Experience participating in architecture reviews and technical design discussions

Databases
- Strong experience with:

MySQL

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Redis

- Experience with:

Database Design

Query Optimization

Indexing

Transactions

Performance Tuning

High Availability and Replication

Messaging & Event Streaming
- Hands-on experience with:

Apache Kafka

RabbitMQ

- Experience building asynchronous and event-driven systems
- Understanding of:

Producer/Consumer patterns

Consumer Groups

Dead Letter Queues (DLQ)

Retry Strategies

Message Ordering

Message Durability

Cloud & Platform
- Hands-on experience with AWS and/or GCP
- Experience with cloud-native application development
- Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes
- Understanding of container orchestration, deployment strategies, scaling, and production

operations Frontend (Architecture & Operations)
- Working knowledge of frontend application architecture from a deployment and

operations perspective
- Understanding of frontend frameworks such as React, Angular, or Vue.js
- Experience with frontend deployment, CDN/Web Server configuration, authentication

flows, API integration, monitoring, and production troubleshooting
- Ability to collaborate effectively with frontend engineering teams to design end-to-end

solutions Observability & Production Engineering

Hands-on experience with one or more of:

- Datadog
- New Relic
- ELK Stack
- Grafana
- Prometheus

Experience with:
- Application Monitoring
- Distributed Tracing
- Log Analysis
- Alerting
- Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
- Performance Monitoring
- Production Incident Management

Technical Leadership
- Experience leading architecture and technical design discussions
- Experience mentoring engineers
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities

Nice to Have Programming & Platform
- Python




- OpenTelemetry
- Elasticsearch
- CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI)
- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation)

AI / ML
- Basic understanding of AI/ML concepts and practical enterprise use cases
- Experience building or integrating AI-powered applications
- Exposure to AI/LLM frameworks such as:

LangChain

LlamaIndex

Spring AI

CrewAI

AutoGen

Semantic Kernel

- Familiarity with:

Large Language Models (LLMs) Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)

AI Agents

Vector Databases

MCP (Model Context Protocol)

- Experience using AI-powered developer tools such as Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Claude

Code, or similar

Architecture

- Domain Driven Design (DDD)
- Clean Architecture
- Hexagonal Architecture
- API Gateway platforms
- Service Mesh
- Feature Flag platforms

Domain Experience Experience in one or more of the following domains:
- FinTech
- Digital Lending
- Payments
- Banking
- Financial Services

Candidate Profile
- 7–10 years of software engineering experience with a strong backend engineering

background.
- Proven experience designing and building large-scale distributed systems in production.
- Hands-on engineer with an architectural mindset.
- Passionate about solving complex engineering problems and improving system

reliability.
- Strong ownership, collaboration, and mentoring skills.
- Comfortable working across architecture, development, production support, and

engineering excellence initiatives.

Recruiter Screening Checklist

Mandatory

- 7–10 years of experience
- Java & Spring Boot
- Microservices Architecture
- System Design
- MySQL / PostgreSQL
- MongoDB
- Redis
- Kafka
- RabbitMQ
- AWS and/or GCP
- Docker & Kubernetes
- Datadog / New Relic / ELK / Grafana / Prometheus
- Experience designing scalable distributed systems
- Working knowledge of frontend deployment and operations
- Experience mentoring engineers or leading technical initiatives

Preferred
- Python
- AI/ML exposure
- LangChain / LlamaIndex / Spring AI / CrewAI / AutoGen
- Cursor / GitHub Copilot / Claude Code
- OpenTelemetry / Elasticsearch
- FinTech / Payments / Banking / Digital Lending experience

📌 Associate Architect (Bengaluru)
🏢 Mpokket Financial Services
📍 Bengaluru