Software Architect

Description

About Oriient

At Oriient, we are building the world’s most advanced and scalable Indoor GPS technology. We are a VC-backed company in a phase of hyper-growth with substantial market traction. Our platform powers indoor location experiences across retail, smart buildings, hospitals and healthcare centers, campuses, and emerging verticals. Oriient’s hardware-free, plug & play solution enables fast and cost-effective deployments at scale, unlocking new capabilities based on high-accuracy positioning, AI, and large-scale data processing.

Job Summary

As Software Architect, you will be the VP R&D’s right hand on technical direction. You will write technical designs and guide development teams through design and implementation.

You will stay hands-on: researching how our systems behave in production, analyzing cost, and owning the design of our data pipelines and how data is defined and kept consistent across sources.

You will report to the VP R&D and work closely with all R&D teams, the product team and our AI builders.

Key Responsibilities

• Write technical designs for new features and systems, and lead design reviews across R&D.
• Guide development teams from design through implementation, and review critical code to keep it aligned with the design.
• Research production behavior hands-on: dig into data, logs and metrics to understand how our systems behave under real customer traffic, and find the root cause of issues.
• Analyze cloud and infrastructure cost, find where we spend, and drive optimizations.
• Own the design of our data pipelines, from ingestion through processing to serving.
• Own data definitions and keep data consistent across our data sources, through shared schemas, data contracts and clear documentation.
• Work with the product team and AI builders to define data sources and schemas for new products and AI capabilities.
• Evaluate technologies and design options, explain the trade-offs, and lead technical decisions with the VP R&D.
• Define architecture principles, standards and reusable patterns, and mentor senior engineers and team leads.

Requirements

Qualifications and Experience

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, including several years as an architect, staff or principal engineer designing complex systems. Must.
• Experience with high-scale systems serving real customer traffic in production. Must.
• Hands-on GCP experience. Must.
• Strong BigQuery and PostgreSQL experience, including data modeling and query performance. Must.
• Proficiency in Node.js and Python. Must.
• Hands-on Kubernetes experience. Must.
• Experience designing batch and streaming data pipelines. Must.
• Proven ability to write clear technical designs and explain them to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Fluent English.
• Experience working with AI/ML teams or building LLM-based or agentic systems. Advantage.
• Experience with cloud cost optimization. Advantage.
• Experience with observability tools. Advantage.

What distinguishes the ideal candidate

• A sense of ownership for production: you build it, you run it, you make it better.
• Hands-on architect: writes designs and also writes queries, prototypes and code reviews, and isn’t satisfied until the design works in production.
• Leads through influence: helps teams make good decisions instead of making every decision for them.
• Data-driven: backs technical and cost decisions with evidence from production data.

What We Offer

• A high-impact role at the core of a rapidly growing technology company.
• Dynamic, collaborative team environment with strong ownership culture.
• Competitive salary and benefits.
• Hybrid work: 3 days in the office, 2 days from home.