Senior Software Architect

Job Summary

To support a growing engineering organization, the full-time Senior Software Architect will own the architectural direction of the backend platform, guiding teams on design decisions and ensuring system reliability, scalability, and maintainability in a remote environment.

Key responsibilities

• Define architectural patterns and standards for the backend platform while influencing engineering teams' design decisions
• Author and review technical design documents, identifying systemic risks and navigating complex trade-offs during project delivery
• Collaborate with engineering leads to ensure effective API design, service boundaries, and operational readiness across distributed systems

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 3 years in an architecture, principal, or staff-level role
• Deep expertise in designing distributed, event-driven backend systems at production scale
• Strong familiarity with Go and/or Python in a microservices context
• Hands-on experience with message queuing and event streaming systems such as Kafka or RabbitMQ
• Proven track record of authoring and governing technical design documents across multiple teams