Senior Architect Europe - Arcanys

Arcanys is a privately owned 300+ people company, with about 280 software engineers, QAs, PMs, BAs and designers in the Philippines.

While looking like just another technology outsourcing firm, Arcanys is at the forefront of the industry, both helping startups and mid-sized companies to scale their development team, and making meaningful financial investments in early stage startups with its Arcanys Ventures arm. With a pace of approximately 10 new investments per year, Arcanys currently has a team of five senior architects based in Europe and one in Sydney. With increasing demand, we are looking to hire an additional senior architect based in Europe. We are flexible with hiring someone part-time/hourly or full time. We care more about finding people with the right skillset and mindset, with a preference for full time. But if you can’t for now, part-time is a good way to start working together. What’s this role about?

We are investing in tech startups that need engineering teams. Our contribution is usually a whole team of 3-4 software engineers and a few part-time people, in exchange for equity.

Sometimes the companies have a strong tech lead and all we need to provide them with are developers and QAs, but in other situations, they are lacking a strong technical lead. That is where you would come in, essentially acting as a fractional CTO.

The role is challenging because you essentially would be interacting with the business people (most often the founders) and try to rein them in, protect the dev team, focus the needs of the business and translate them to the dev team. Sometimes they have a product manager, but not always, and you may need to partially fill that role (and we can have a business analyst and/or a UX designer assist you).

Ideally, you would act as a fractional CTO for 2 to 3 companies (working between 30 to 50 hours per month per company) with the remaining time collaborating with our architect team on improving Arcanys ’ internal functions (hiring, training, internal applications).

We might also need your help with:

Meeting an occasional founder / investment opportunity in person

Doing a technical code audit of a potential new investment

Consult on other projects regarding specific expertise you may have

What are the required skills/conditions?

Non-negotiables

Must be an expert in Microsoft C# .NET or Nodejs.

Mastery of React (Angular or Vue are nice to have).

Experience with Ionic & React Native would be a plus.

Other interesting languages covered in a minority of our projects: Python, Java

Other requirements

Minimum 15 years working experience in software development

Extensive RDBMS experience, such as MySQL, MsSQL, MariaDB, or PostgreSQL

Solid experience with Azure and AWS, good knowledge of DevOps is a plus

Nice to haves would be any of t