Technical Lead – Architect

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

📋 Description

• Take ownership of the comprehensive architecture of the product, encompassing data, services, integrations, infrastructure, security, and reliability.

• Convey architectural concepts using current C4 diagrams and create as well as manage Architectural Decision Records (ADRs).

• Establish architectural guardrails, which include boundaries, contracts, and Service Level Agreements (SLAs).

• Make decisions regarding build/buy/integrate strategies and define the product’s canonical schema, versioning framework, and essential abstractions.

• Write production-level code for critical paths, lead design review sessions, evaluate pull requests, prototype challenging problems, and ensure the stability of production systems.

• Oversee deployment, data residency, auditing, access control, permissions, and the architecture of audit logs.

• Lead responses to systemic reliability issues and incident postmortems, transforming insights into architectural enhancements and roadmap updates.

• Collaborate with engineering leadership and Product teams to translate architecture into deliverable increments.

• Guide engineers in systems thinking, trade-off analysis, and achieving design clarity.

• Represent the product architecture to enterprise clients during technical assessments and security reviews.

• Utilize AI engineering tools on a daily basis and establish team practices for specification-driven development, evaluation gates, and AI-assisted code reviews.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 10 years of experience in building production distributed systems, including a minimum of 3 years in a Staff, Principal, or Architect capacity.

• Proficient in JavaScript/TypeScript, React, and Node.js; capable of reading and contributing across a variety of programming languages and technology stacks.

• Extensive expertise in AWS architecture, including services such as ECS/EKS/Lambda, RDS, DynamoDB, S3, VPC, ALB, PrivateLink, IAM, KMS, and Secrets Manager.

• Ability to analyze cost implications, blast radius, and failure modes at the service level.

• Proven experience in writing code on critical paths, reviewing designs and pull requests, and managing production-related issues.

• Familiarity with Python.

• Experience in communicating architecture using C4 models and lightweight ADRs.

• Hands-on production experience with at least one AI/LLM-powered system, including retrieval, prompt/context design, cost considerations, and failure modes.

• Experience integrating with at least three significant third-party platforms in a production environment.

🏝️ Benefits

• Monthly USD Service Fee.

• 20 business days of paid Agreed Time Off—Annual + 6 Local Holidays.

• Caregiver Time Off.

• A vibrant remote work culture, allowing you to work from anywhere!

• An entrepreneurial environment.