Lead Microservices Architect – Multi-Region System Integration

Silverline Labs

Contract · Remote · Flexible hours

About the role

Silverline Labs is revamping its flagship customer‑facing platform, codenamed "Nimbus Core", to achieve industry‑leading latency and uptime. As a Microservices Architect you will lead the performance and reliability overhaul, shaping the next‑gen service mesh that powers millions of daily transactions.

Key responsibilities

• Design and implement a resilient micro‑service topology using Spring Boot and gRPC to replace legacy monolith endpoints.
• Define service‑level objectives (SLOs) and establish automated health‑checks with Prometheus and Grafana.
• Refactor critical payment‑flow services into containerized workloads, optimizing CPU and memory footprints.
• Guide the migration to a Kubernetes‑based deployment pipeline, incorporating Helm charts and canary releases.
• Collaborate with the data engineering team to introduce caching layers via Redis for high‑throughput read paths.
• Conduct load‑testing campaigns with k6, delivering benchmark reports and remediation plans.

Must-have skills

• Deep expertise in micro‑services design patterns and event‑driven architectures.
• Proficiency with Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm for production deployments.
• Strong Java development background, including Spring ecosystem.
• Hands‑on experience building and securing REST and gRPC APIs.
• Track record of implementing observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger).

Nice to have

• Familiarity with AWS EKS or GKE managed services.
• Experience with chaos engineering tools such as LitmusChaos.