The Role:

As a Senior Software Architect, you will be responsible for designing and implementing technical solutions that meet the needs of our business and stakeholders, including external clients. You will work closely with stakeholders to understand their requirements, assess new and emerging technologies, and develop scalable, maintainable, and secure solutions. Additionally, you will lead technical projects, provide guidance and support to project teams, lead development teams, create proof-of-concepts (POCs), and act as a subject matter expert for all things technology. You will also work closely with external clients to understand their needs and lead demos to showcase the solutions you have developed.

What you'll do:

• Work with stakeholders to understand their business requirements and translate them into technical solutions
• Develop and maintain a holistic view of the organization's technology architecture, ensuring that it aligns with the overall business strategy
• Collaborate with development teams to ensure that solutions are designed, developed, and delivered in accordance with architectural standards
• Evaluate new and emerging technologies and assess their potential impact on the organization's technology architecture
• Lead the development of proof-of-concepts (POCs) to demonstrate the feasibility of new technologies
• Develop, maintain, and communicate technical standards and best practices for the organization
• Act as a technical advisor to project teams, providing guidance and support as needed
• Lead development teams and manage technical projects to ensure successful delivery
• Work closely with external clients to understand their needs and lead demos to showcase the solutions you have developed

Required Skills:

• Excellent written and oral communication and cross-organizational skills 
• Experience with multi-cloud environments, particularly AWS, Azure or GCP.  
• 5+ years of cloud engineering experience
• Hands-on software architecture experience across both backend and frontend systems, including technologies such as JavaScript/TypeScript, Node.js, React (or similar modern frameworks).
• Strong experience designing and building RESTful and/or GraphQL APIs, service boundaries, and scalable application architectures.
• Experience designing high-performance, scalable web applications with clear separation of concerns between presentation, application, and data layers.
• Thrive in a highly innovative, fast-paced, evolving, and ambiguous environment.
• Able to work well in a team environment and building strong partnerships across different groups
• Experience with designing complex cloud architectures
• Possess excellent communication, organizational and time-management skills
• Should be very comfortable with learning new languages and being proficient in it in a short time
• Hands-on experience with DevOps tools and practices, including CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and automation.
• Proficient in creating detailed architectural diagrams and documentation to communicate design solutions.
• Strong ability to learn new languages and technologies quickly, with a commitment to continuous learning and improvement.

Nice-to-have Skills:

• Familiarity with containerized applications (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience working with high-traffic, large-scale applications and distributed systems.
• Demonstrated experience architecting distributed systems, including event-driven or message-based architectures (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ, Kinesis, or similar).

Education & Certifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or relevant years of work experience

What we offer:

• Flexible Work Hours
• Unlimited PTO
• Competitive Salaries
• Health + Dental + Vision + Life Insurance
• Long Term disability + 401k Match

Work Schedule:

• Must be flexible working various US time zones (depending on client needs)

Expected Compensation:

• $180k-210k USD/ year

*Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time