Software Architect

Description

Personetics is shaping the Cognitive Banking era, harnessing AI to help banks anticipate customer needs, provide actionable insights, and deliver intelligent financial guidance. Our platform continuously analyzes and leverages real-time transactional data, enabling banks to proactively support customers in managing their finances and reaching their goals.

As industry leaders - yes, we really are leaders - we partner with the world’s top financial institutions, empowering over 150 million customers monthly across 35 global markets from offices in New York, London, Singapore, São Paulo, and Tel Aviv.

About the position

We are looking for a Senior Software Architect to help define and evolve the architecture of our SaaS platform and core products. You will work closely with product, delivery, and engineering squads to design scalable, reliable systems, set technical direction, and guide teams in making high-quality architectural decisions that balance delivery speed with long-term sustainability.

This is a hands-on, senior technical leadership role: you will spend most of your time shaping architectures with teams, reviewing designs and critical code, and driving shared standards and patterns across the organization, all in an advance agentic environment.

Responsibilities

Architecture & technical leadership

• Define and evolve the architecture for key domains in our platform (APIs, services, data flows, integration, observability, security).
• Translate business and product requirements into clear, pragmatic technical designs and architecture roadmaps.
• Create and maintain architecture artefacts: diagrams, decision records (ADRs), reference implementations, and guidelines.
• Evaluate design options and technology choices, articulate trade-offs, and lead the decision-making process with stakeholders.
• Push forward the agentic mindset and implementation.

Working with squads (R&D)

• Partner with squad leads and senior engineers to design solutions, break down complex problems, and keep implementations aligned with the target architecture.
• Participate in design / tech reviews, ensuring non-functional requirements (performance, resilience, security, operability) are addressed early.
• Provide hands-on support where it matters most: spike and prototype critical flows, review complex pull requests, and help debug tricky production issues.

Partnering with Product

• Collaborate with Product to shape technical feasibility, sequencing, and scope for roadmap items and cross-squad initiatives.
• Communicate complex technical topics in simple language to non-technical stakeholders when discussing roadmap options and trade-offs.

Standards, reuse, and platform mindset

• Define and promote architecture principles, coding standards, and reusable patterns (modules, libraries, services) that reduce duplication and technical debt.
• Champion platform thinking: design services and components that can be safely reused across teams and products.
• Drive adoption of shared platform capabilities (observability, CI/CD, authentication, data, DevOps tooling) across squads.

Quality, reliability, and continuous improvement

• Ensure architectures are observable, operable, and resilient by design; partner with DevOps/SRE on deployment, monitoring, and incident response.
• Identify areas of high technical debt or architectural risk and lead structured remediation initiatives.
• Help define and track technical KPIs (e.g., performance, reliability, incident volume) tied to architecture decisions.

Mentoring and leadership

• Act as a technical mentor and sounding board for senior engineers and tech leads, helping them grow their architecture skills.
• Foster a culture of thoughtful design, documentation, and constructive technical debate.
• Lead by influence rather than authority: you help teams make better decisions instead of making every decision for them.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering, including several years in a senior / staff / architect role designing complex systems.
• Strong experience with modern backend and distributed architectures (microservices or modular monoliths, event-driven patterns, robust APIs).
• Solid understanding of cloud-native architecture (e.g., AWS/Azure/GCP), containers, and infrastructure-as-code practices.
• Proven ability to design for scale, performance, security, and reliability in production SaaS environments.
• Hands-on experience with at least one major language and ecosystem used in our stack (e.g., Java, Python, Node.js, or similar).
• Proven agentic experience - as hand-on experience and as architecting GenAI systems
• Comfortable reading and reviewing code, guiding implementation, and occasionally building prototypes or reference implementations.
• Experience working with product teams in an agile / kanban environment; able to balance long-term architecture with near-term delivery.
• Strong communication skills: can explain complex technical concepts clearly to engineers and non-engineers.

Nice to have

• Experience with financial services, B2B SaaS, or integrations with large enterprise customers (e.g., banks).
• Background in data platforms, analytics, or ML-adjacent systems.
• Familiarity with domain-driven design, event sourcing, or CQRS patterns.