Software Architect

Role Description

As we continue to scale our engineering organization, we are looking for a Senior Software Architect to serve as the technical backbone of our backend platform. This is a senior individual contributor role that sits at the intersection of engineering leadership and technical craft. You will not be managing a team directly, but you will have significant influence over how all of our backend teams build, design, and evolve their systems.

• Own the architectural direction for our backend platform including defining patterns, setting standards, and guiding teams through design decisions.
• Be a trusted partner to engineering leads and team managers across the company.
• Author and review technical design documents.
• Identify systemic risk across services.
• Help teams navigate complex trade-offs at critical moments in delivery.
• Work with an event-driven and distributed backend platform built on a microservices foundation.

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.
• Bonus points for .NET and JVM experience, especially in migrating from monolith to microservices.
• Hands-on experience with message queuing and event streaming systems such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, or equivalent.
• Proven track record of authoring and governing technical design documents across multiple teams.
• Experience defining API contracts, service boundaries, and data ownership patterns.
• Strong working knowledge of AWS infrastructure, containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), and CI/CD pipelines.
• Ability to identify architectural risk early and drive resolution across teams without direct authority.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to translate complex technical decisions for non-engineering audiences.

Requirements

• Understanding of Domain Driven Design, Modular Monoliths, and the Strangler Pattern.
• Experience with search or recommendation infrastructure (Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, or similar).
• Familiarity with MLOps or data platform architecture.
• Background in eCommerce, marketplace, or two-sided platform businesses.
• Experience working in a post-acquisition or platform consolidation environment.
• Experience on developer productivity tooling (libraries, templates, code generation, etc.) and infrastructure such as internal developer portals and platforms.

Benefits

• The pay range for this role is $170,000 to $185,000.
• Actual compensation packages are based on several factors unique to each candidate.
• The total compensation package may include annual performance bonus, stock, benefits and/or other applicable incentive compensation plans.