Senior Software Architect
HybridLondon, England, United Kingdom
Job Summary
Senior Software Architect at TeamViewer responsible for shaping the architectural direction of scalable, secure software solutions aligned with business goals. This hands-on role requires architectural judgment, guidance across engineering teams, and advancing AI-aware capabilities to improve product capability, developer productivity, operational efficiency, and customer value. Key duties include designing enterprise-grade architectures, supporting full software lifecycles, conducting design reviews, mentoring senior engineers and architects, applying AI-driven tooling to improve code quality and workflows, maintaining clear architectural documentation, and collaborating with engineering, product, operations, and support teams to ensure architectural alignment and delivery.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, including significant experience designing and evolving complex software architectures across multiple domains.
- Proven ability to deliver hands-on, real-world solutions, actively supporting implementation, troubleshooting, and technical decision-making.
- Strong understanding of designing enterprise-grade systems that are scalable, secure, cost-conscious, and maintainable.
- Strong expertise in at least one modern back-end programming language, such as C#, Java, or C++, with the ability and willingness to learn new technologies as needed.
- Solid experience with data systems, including SQL and NoSQL databases, data modelling, performance considerations, and operational behaviour at scale.
- Practical awareness of how modern AI capabilities can be applied in software engineering and product architecture, while remaining anchored in maintainability, security, scalability, and business value.
- Regular hands-on use of AI-assisted engineering tools such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, or comparable tools, with an understanding of how to use them effectively in real engineering workflows.
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain complex architectural concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, multi-platform development, non-functional requirements, and requirements engineering.
- Ability to document complex technical systems and concepts in a structured, accessible, and standardized manner.
- A pragmatic, outcome-focused mindset that balances technical excellence with business needs and delivery timelines.
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