Principal Architect

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States, +1 more country.

📋 Description

• Lead the Architecture team at Granum and spearhead the development of the technical roadmap.

• Act as a hands-on leader and coach, guiding a small team of architects while engaging in coding activities.

• Report directly to the CTO and collaborate with leaders from Platforms, Product, and feature pods.

• Oversee application and system architecture for Granum's diverse product portfolio.

• Plan and design platform upgrade tools and processes for Angular, .NET, and shared libraries.

• Mitigate technical debt across teams, ensuring a stable, secure, and scalable foundation for feature teams.

• Implement the technical roadmap by organizing visible tasks and pinpointing cross-team dependencies during quarterly planning.

• Establish architectural standards, guidelines, component patterns, and testing criteria.

• Coordinate major technology upgrades and assess new technologies.

• Create deployment patterns and provide shared CI/CD guidance.

• Advise on application security, identity and access management, and API exposure and security.

• Define interactions between humans and coding agents within the AI-native development framework.

• Lead, develop, and set the operational cadence for the Architecture Pod.

• Make architectural concepts comprehensible to engineers and coding agents through clear patterns, context, and documentation.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven experience as a hands-on architect leading the architecture of a complex, production SaaS platform.

• Demonstrated ability to advance a real codebase from its current status to its desired architecture.

• Competence in reading and writing code effectively.

• Extensive experience with .NET, including modernizing legacy .NET Framework systems.

• Familiarity with systems and integration architecture, including integrations, data flow, and deployment topology.

• Understanding of API architecture, including exposing, securing, versioning, and evolving APIs without disrupting dependent users.

• A security-first perspective on authentication, access management, and API exposure.

• Systems thinking and pragmatic approach; preference for well-established technology and community solutions rather than custom builds.

• Proficiency with AI-assisted and agentic coding tools as a primary mode of development.

• Experience collaborating closely with product managers and linking technical decisions to customer outcomes.

• Leadership experience in setting direction, mentoring team members, providing constructive feedback, unblocking engineers, and maintaining a healthy team rhythm.

• Familiarity with Angular, Azure, and AWS is advantageous.

🏝️ Benefits

• In the U.S., comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with various plan options.

• HSA/FSA accounts, as well as disability and life insurance for U.S. employees.

• In Canada, employer-funded HSA-based benefits plan that includes drug, dental, and mental health coverage.

• 401(k) matching available for U.S. employees.

• RRSP matching for Canadian employees.

• Customized career development discussions.

• Support for tools, courses, and resources aimed at professional growth.

• Unlimited Paid Time Off.

• Paid company holidays.

• Company-wide winter break from December 24 to January 1.

• A collaborative and supportive team culture.

• Work authorization support is not provided; candidates must possess authorization to work in Canada or the U.S. without sponsorship.