Technical Architect

About this role

We are seeking a seasoned Technical Architect who has previously owned and governed backend architecture in production systems. The role focuses on defining long-term technical direction, ensuring architectural consistency across teams, and aligning system design with business and scalability goals. Strong experience in Java, Node.js, and modern cloud platforms—preferably Google Cloud Platform (GCP), with working knowledge of AWS—is required.

Roles and responsibilities

• Own system-level and cross-cutting architectural decisions across multiple teams and services, including trade-off analysis, long-term scalability, and cost considerations.
• Act as the final technical authority for system design, non-functional requirements, and architectural standards.
• Drive architectural trade-offs by balancing scalability, reliability, security, cost, and delivery speed.
• Establish and enforce architectural guardrails, patterns, and reference implementations across teams.
• Work with stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
• Design cloud-native applications with a focus on scalability, fault-tolerance, and performance.
• Lead architecture reviews, code quality checks, and performance analysis.
• Evaluate and recommend tools, frameworks, and platforms based on project needs.
• Ensure best practices around security, monitoring, CI/CD, and DevOps are followed.
• Collaborate with product, QA, DevOps, and other cross-functional teams.