Architect

Faro Health Platform Architect

Faro Health aims to improve lives by helping life sciences companies design optimal clinical trials. Our AI-powered software platform optimizes and orchestrates complex clinical development by providing powerful insights about trial design and outcomes. Faro empowers researchers to design more intelligent trials, reducing development costs and reaching milestones faster with better patient experiences.

Faro is a mission-driven company seeking world-class people who share our passion for improving drug availability and patient outcomes through better clinical trial design. We pride ourselves on our vibrant, inclusive, and growth mindset oriented culture. Faro offers competitive compensation and benefits, generous vacation and parental leave, and flexible working hours.

We are a hybrid workplace where San Diego employees work from their homes as well as in our stunning main headquarters enjoying a gym with classes, outdoor lawn work area, and steeply discounted food hall. Remote employees work from home and visit the main office for group events and in-person collaboration.

In this role you'll design and build the platform capabilities that Faro's product teams build on top of. Your consumers are internal engineering teams and business stakeholders, so the work is measured by adoption as much as delivery. The systems you design succeed when other teams choose them. You'll stay hands-on — expect to spend a meaningful share of your time in code, prototyping your own designs and building reference implementations of the patterns you're asking teams to adopt.

The platform is your domain, and you own its architecture end to end. Beyond it, you'll provide architectural oversight across product development, participating in architecture reviews and partnering with feature leads to guide their technical designs into alignment with the wider system. Working alongside other architects and engineers, you'll own trade-offs that cross team boundaries and help steer modernization already in flight. It's a role with unusual leverage: a good decision here compounds across every engineering team in the company.

Responsibilities:

• Own System Design: Lead the design of large-scale, cross-team platform capabilities from ideation to release, ensuring business requirements are gathered and met.
• Own Non-Functional Requirements: Ensure that all non-functional requirements, including performance, scalability, reliability, security, observability, and cost are met across your domain.
• Sequence Architecture Into Delivery: Partner with engineering managers and product to break your designs into increments teams can actually ship, so no team is blocked waiting on a design that doesn't exist yet.
• Architectural Review: Write, critique, and defend designs (your own and others'), including identifying and validating reversible-vs-irreversible decisions.
• Build-vs-Buy Evaluation: Evaluate and make recommendations on build-vs-buy decisions for new or aging features and capabilities.
• Hands-On Innovation: Contribute directly to the architecture and development of high-complexity features, tackling challenging problems.
• Champion Best Practices: Be a driving force in establishing and promoting engineering best practices, partnering with our Principal Architect to turn what works in your domain into standards the whole organization can adopt.
• Mentor & Lead: Mentor engineers across the organization, helping to accelerate the realization of our product roadmap while fostering a collaborative learning environment.
• Drive Adoption With Internal Customers: Deliver an exceptional experience for the engineering teams and business stakeholders who build on your systems, understanding their needs deeply enough that they choose your platform rather than route around it.
• Represent Architecture Externally: Present our architecture to strategic customers and engage their technical leadership directly — including on limitations and our roadmap.