Software Architect

What You'll Do

• Define and drive the architectural vision for core systems, ensuring scalability, reliability, and long-term maintainability
• Lead the design and evolution of complex, distributed systems across the full stack (application, data, infrastructure)
• Identify system-level gaps or inefficiencies and introduce architectural improvements that elevate performance, quality, and developer velocity across teams
• Influence without direct authority, building alignment across teams and bringing others along through change
• Partner with engineering, product, and leadership to align technical strategy with business goals and long-term roadmaps
• Guide teams through high impact technical tradeoffs across performance, scalability, cost, and complexity
• Lead cross-team initiatives as platform modernization, cloud migration or system re-architecture initiatives
• Establish and promote best practices, standards, and patterns that scale across teams and domains
• Mentor senior and staff engineers, helping raise the overall technical bar and architectural thinking across the organization
• Evaluate and introduce new technologies, frameworks, and approaches that drive meaningful improvements at the organizational level

Who You Are

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including leadership at staff level or above
• Proven experience designing and scaling complex, distributed systems across multiple teams or products
• Deep expertise in system design, architecture patterns, and modern engineering best practices
• Strong experience with backend systems, APIs, and data modeling
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS or Azure) and modern infrastructure patterns
• Proficiency in modern development stacks, including C#/.NET and frontend frameworks such as Angular
• Experience working relational databases such as SQL Server or Postgres
• Strong ability to evaluate and communicate tradeoffs across scalability, performance, cost and maintainability
• Strong track record of influencing technical direction and driving alignment across teams
• Excellent communication skills, with ability to translate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Compensation

Salary Range: $180,000 - $200,000. Compensation is just one component of a comprehensive total rewards package that also includes benefits, flexibility, and growth opportunities.