Design scalable, maintainable software systems
Software Architecture is a senior technical role focused on designing the high-level structure of software systems, making key technical decisions, and guiding development teams. As a software architect, you will design system architecture, choose technology stacks, define coding standards, ensure scalability and performance, conduct architecture reviews, and mentor developers. This comprehensive roadmap covers software design principles (SOLID, DRY, KISS), architecture patterns (microservices, event-driven, layered), system design, distributed systems, database design, security architecture, and cloud architecture. Software architects are highly valued senior positions requiring extensive development experience, deep technical knowledge, business understanding, and excellent communication skills. The role bridges technical implementation and business strategy, requiring both coding expertise and strategic thinking.
8-10 weeks
Single responsibility, open-closed, Liskov, interface segregation, dependency inversion
Creational, structural, behavioral patterns
Naming, functions, comments, formatting
Code smells, refactoring techniques
10-12 weeks
Presentation, business, data layers
Service decomposition, API gateway, service mesh
Event sourcing, CQRS, message queues
FaaS, BaaS, serverless patterns
10-12 weeks
Horizontal vs vertical, load balancing, caching
Redundancy, failover, disaster recovery
Optimization, profiling, bottlenecks
Design Twitter, Uber, Netflix
10-12 weeks
Consistency, availability, partition tolerance
Paxos, Raft, distributed consensus
Master-slave, multi-master, sharding
Kafka, RabbitMQ, event streaming
8-10 weeks
Normalization, indexing, query optimization
Relational, NoSQL, polyglot persistence
Authentication, authorization, encryption, OWASP
REST, GraphQL, gRPC, API versioning
8-10 weeks
Mentoring, code reviews, technical decisions
ADRs, architecture documentation
Choosing tech stack, POCs, tradeoffs
Understanding business, cost optimization