Architect

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Define and enhance the overall system architecture for the platform, ensuring it is scalable, high-performing, and resilient.

• Set architecture standards, design principles, and best practices for engineering teams.

• Lead design reviews and provide technical governance for key initiatives.

• Promote the use of modern architectural patterns such as microservices, event-driven systems, and API-first design.

• Ensure strong security, compliance, and data privacy practices across all systems.

• Offer technical leadership across various teams, mentoring senior engineers.

• Serve as the primary expert for complex technical issues and escalations.

• Shape engineering culture by advocating for engineering excellence, code quality, and innovation.

• Collaborate with engineering leadership on long-term platform strategy and capacity planning.

• Work alongside DevOps and SRE teams to guarantee efficient deployment and operational excellence.

• Lead initiatives in AI integration, automation, and intelligent workflows.

• Continuously enhance development velocity and system performance.

⛳️ Requirements

• 12–15+ years of experience in software engineering and system architecture.

• Strong expertise in Ruby on Rails (or similar dynamic backend frameworks), React or modern frontend frameworks, and distributed systems and microservices architecture.

• In-depth knowledge of relational databases (preferably PostgreSQL) and data modeling.

• Significant experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred), CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, and containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).

• A Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related discipline is required.

🏝️ Benefits

• Health Coverage Choices: Three medical plan options, along with dental and vision, allowing you to select what suits you best. Employees enrolled in our HDHP plan also receive employer contributions to the HSA.

• Retirement Savings: 401(k) plan featuring a 100% match on the first 3% and 50% on the next 2% of employee contributions.

• Time Away: Flexible paid time off, 7 sick days, and 9 paid company holidays each year.

• Family Support: Generous paid leave for birth parents, non-birth parents, and caregivers. Onit also provides reimbursement for surrogacy and adoption.

• Income Protection: Life and disability insurance fully covered by the employer.

• Additional Coverage Options: Voluntary benefits including hospital indemnity, critical illness, accident, and even pet insurance.

• Tax-Advantaged Accounts: Healthcare FSA, HSA, and dependent care FSA.

• Community Engagement: One paid volunteer day annually to contribute to the community.