Software Architect
Location: Remote
Compensation: Salary
Reviewed: Fri, Sep 18, 2026
This job expires in: 30 days
Job Summary
As the first dedicated Software Architect in a fully remote capacity, the successful candidate will own the end-to-end architecture, lead cross-cutting architectural initiatives, and strengthen best practices across engineering teams, ensuring scalability and reliability as the company grows.
Key responsibilities
- Build and maintain a comprehensive end-to-end architecture picture, identifying risks and driving architectural changes
- Serve as the technical lead across the engineering organization, driving decisions and mentoring Staff-level engineers on system design
- Enhance design review practices and codify standards for observability, quality, and API evolution in collaboration with various teams
Required qualifications
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years as an Architect for a 100+ engineering organization
- Proven ability to lead through influence and drive adoption of architectural standards across teams
- Deep expertise in distributed systems and backend architecture, with experience in Go, Kubernetes, and AWS
- Experience designing public APIs and SDKs at scale, focusing on versioning and multi-surface consistency
- Exceptional written communication skills, with a focus on clear documentation and decision-making
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