Senior Product Architect

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

📋 Description

• Take ownership of the overarching technical architecture, platform vision, and system scalability for Storyblok's product offerings.

• Guarantee optimal performance, security, and developer experience across all systems.

• Collaborate with product managers, engineering leads, and platform teams to create scalable cloud-native architectures.

• Set architectural guardrails and steer the technical direction for enterprise-level features.

• Outline and implement long-term strategies for technical product architecture, system design, and platform scalability across cloud infrastructure and microservices.

• Establish architectural guidelines, design patterns, and standards for developing safe, high-performing, and resilient features.

• Lead architectural evaluations for significant product features, ensuring compliance with security, reliability, latency, and cost-efficiency standards.

• Work alongside Product, Security, DevOps, and Data teams to synchronize product capabilities with platform performance and business objectives.

⛳️ Requirements

• A Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a relevant field of practical experience.

• Over 7 years of experience in software architecture, principal engineering, or system design roles for large-scale distributed cloud applications.

• Proficiency in AI and the capacity to utilize AI tools to boost productivity, decision-making, and work quality while applying sound judgment and critical thinking.

• Extensive knowledge in cloud-native architectures, ideally AWS, API design, distributed systems, and multi-tenant SaaS platforms.

• Strong command of contemporary programming backend/frontend ecosystems and microservice communication patterns.

• Demonstrated ability to drive technical strategy and articulate complex architectural trade-offs to both engineering and executive leadership.

🏝️ Benefits

• Monthly remote work stipend to cover home internet and electricity expenses.

• Initial home office equipment package, including a laptop, keyboard, and monitor.

• Home office equipment upgrade for furniture and earplugs, or a membership to a local co-working space post-onboarding.

• Sick leave benefits.

• Parental leave.

• 25 days of annual leave in addition to local national holidays.

• Personal development fund for courses, books, conferences, and materials.

• Annual international team-building trip.

• Quarterly and monthly online gatherings.

• Flexible work schedules.

• Option for remote work or funded Storyblok co-working space.