Senior Technical Architect

Job description:

We're looking for a Senior Technical Architect to own the technical direction of our platform across web and backend systems. This is a hands-on leadership role: you'll set architecture standards, guide a team of 10-20 engineers, and run multiple concurrent initiatives without letting delivery timelines slip. You'll be expected to bring an AI-native mindset to how we build - using modern AI tooling to accelerate development, raise quality, and rethink how problems get solved.

What You'll Do:

• Define and own the end-to-end technical architecture across frontend, backend, and infrastructure, balancing scalability, performance, and cost.
• Lead a team of 10-20 engineers across multiple parallel projects, ensuring each ships on time and at quality.
• Prioritize the technical roadmap against business needs - making clear trade-offs on what to build, defer, or drop, and communicating the reasoning to stakeholders.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship: review designs, unblock engineers, set coding and review standards, and grow the team's capability.
• Drive an AI-native approach to engineering - integrating AI tooling into the SDLC (code generation, review, testing, documentation) and identifying where AI can improve the product itself.
• Partner with Product and Line of Business teams to translate requirements into sound, deliverable technical plans.
• Own project management discipline across teams: estimation, risk management, dependency tracking, and timeline ownership.
• Maintain engineering health - technical debt, system reliability, security, and observability.

Technical Stack & Expertise:

A strong candidate must demonstrate depth across the full stack:

Backend & Services:

• Strong server-side proficiency (Node.js / Java / Python / Go) and RESTful + event-driven service design.
• Microservices architecture, API gateways, and service-to-service communication patterns.

Data & Streaming:

• Apache Kafka - event streaming, producers/consumers, partitioning, and stream processing at scale.
• Clickstream data pipelines - capturing, processing, and analyzing high-volume user-event data.
• MySQL (and relational data modeling, query optimization, indexing, replication) - plus exposure to NoSQL stores (Redis, MongoDB, Cassandra/DynamoDB).
• Data warehousing and analytics pipelines (e.g. ClickHouse, BigQuery, Snowflake, or equivalents).

Frontend:

• Modern JavaScript/TypeScript frameworks (React / Angular / Vue) and responsive, performant UI architecture.

Cloud, Infra & DevOps:

• Cloud platforms (AWS / GCP), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and CI/CD pipelines.
• Caching, CDN, load balancing, and high-availability design for high-traffic consumer systems.
• Observability and monitoring (logging, metrics, tracing, alerting).

AI-Native Tooling:

• Hands-on use of AI-assisted development tooling across the SDLC, and a clear view on applying AI within the product.

What You Bring:

• 12+ years of software engineering experience, with a strong full-stack foundation across modern web frameworks, backend services, databases, and cloud infrastructure.
• Proven track record architecting and delivering large-scale, high-traffic systems.
• Demonstrated experience leading teams of 10-20 engineers and running multiple projects simultaneously without compromising timelines.
• Strong prioritization instincts - able to align technical decisions with business outcomes and defend trade-offs.
• Hands-on fluency with AI-native development tooling and a clear point of view on applying AI across the engineering lifecycle.
• Excellent leadership, mentorship, and stakeholder-communication skills.
• Solid project management capability (Agile/Scrum or equivalent).

Nice to Have:

• Experience in travel-tech, e-commerce, or high-scale consumer platforms.
• Experience setting up team-wide AI tooling, standards, or governance.

Skills

Architecture, Full Stack, Full-Stack, Go, Java, Node.js, Python