Job Description

Our Company
Pampered Chef, a Berkshire Hathaway company, was founded in 1980 by Doris Christopher to inspire confidence and creativity in the kitchen. The company provides innovative, high-quality kitchen tools and cooking solutions that make everyday meal preparation easier and more enjoyable. Pampered Chef empowers home cooks with its product line, which includes cookware, bakeware, cutlery, small appliances, pantry items, and kitchen gadgets designed with functionality and style.
Operating through a direct sales model, Pampered Chef works with a network of independent consultants who host cooking experiences in person and virtually. These experiences showcase the brand's products and provide valuable tips and inspiration for creating memorable meals. This model fosters personalized customer engagement and creates a strong sense of community.
As a purpose-driven organization, Pampered Chef is committed to sustainability and social responsibility. The company integrates eco-friendly practices into its products and operations, actively reduces waste, and supports charitable initiatives to positively impact local communities.
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Purpose of the Role:
The Software Architect plays a critical role in ensuring our systems are scalable, maintainable, and aligned with long-term business goals. By combining deep technical expertise with hands-on leadership, they guide sprint teams through complex delivery while setting architectural direction. Their dual role as architect and team lead accelerates decision-making, reduces technical debt, and ensures consistent execution across projects.
Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of 3-5 software engineers, providing guidance, mentorship, and technical leadership to ensure the successful delivery of projects.
• Collaborate closely with product managers to define project requirements, ensuring alignment between business objectives, customer needs, and technical constraints.
• Work closely with engineering managers to identify areas for improvement and implement strategies to enhance team efficiency and effectiveness.
• Interface closely with other architects to establish system-wide engineering best practices, driving quality, scalability, performance, and maintainability across all projects.
• Drive the design and development of high-level architectural solutions, considering technical feasibility, scalability, security, and performance requirements.
• Conduct architectural reviews and provide technical guidance to development teams, ensuring adherence to architectural principles and best practices.
• Leverage proficiency in the MERN/MEAN tech stack and utilizing microservices and RESTful APIs to architect and develop scalable and resilient software solutions.
• Maintain uptime of production software and systems through on-call support activities, collaborating with the operations team to promptly address and resolve incidents.
• Stay current with industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in software architecture, and apply this knowledge to drive innovation and continuous improvement within the organization.
• Act as a technical leader and advocate for engineering excellence, fostering a culture of collaboration, learning, and innovation within the team and across the organization.

Measures of Success:

• Establish and maintain high code quality standard
• Contribute to team improving velocity
• Contribute to team reducing the average ticket cycle time from IN PROGRESS to RESOLVED
• Contribute to team delivering more business value
• Contribute to team reducing the amount of interruptions
• Work with team to deliver at least 90% story completion in a sprint

Education and Experience:
Required: BS in Computer Science, or related field. Minimum 7 years of software development experience required, with 1-3 years of previous lead experience.
Compensation, benefits, and logistics:
The anticipated salary range for this position starts at $140,000 annually, depending on experience and qualifications. This role is eligible for performance-based bonus based on individual and company performance.
This position includes a comprehensive benefits package, which includes:

• Medical, dental and vision insurance
• Company-paid life insurance with additional voluntary coverage options
• Disability insurance
• Additional voluntary benefits
• 401k match
• Flex PTO
• Paid Parental leave
• 30%+ discount on Pampered Chef Products and product giveaways

Pampered Chef currently follows a hybrid schedule at the headquartered office in Addison, IL. The expectation is for employees to be in the office on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday every week.
Equal Opportunity Employer: Pampered Chef is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.

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