Position: Senior Software Architect (Backend & Distributed Systems)
Location: Remote (Pakistan)
Job Type: Full-time
Work Hours: 09:00 AM – 05:00 PM PST (10:00 PM - 06:00 AM PKT)
Role Overview:
We're looking for a Senior Software Architect who can design resilient, scalable backend systems powering data-heavy applications. You will be responsible for architecting systems, making key technical decisions, and actively coding and building backend services that drive our core platforms. This role involves hands-on system design, translating complex requirements into robust architectures, and leading through execution with strong development expertise. It is a leadership-through-execution role, combining strategic architectural thinking with deep implementation and system design skills.
Key Responsibilities:
- Architect and evolve backend systems that support high-volume traffic and production workloads.
- Lead major architectural improvements across APIs, crawlers, data ingestion pipelines, and core services.
- Design distributed systems with a strong focus on scalability, reliability, and performance.
- Build new production systems from scratch while modernizing legacy components.
- Define system-level strategies for observability, failure handling, and long-term maintainability.
- Break down complex technical initiatives into clear, executable components.
- Drive performance optimization and infrastructure efficiency.
- Collaborate directly with leadership on long-term technical direction.
- Mentor engineers through architecture reviews, system design discussions, and engineering best practices.
Requirements:
- 10+ years of experience in backend engineering or system architecture.
- Proven track record designing and maintaining high-traffic production systems.
- Strong experience with APIs, distributed systems, and backend services at scale.
- Systems thinking mindset: concurrency, performance bottlenecks, scaling strategies, failure modes, and resiliency.
- Ability to independently make high-impact architectural decisions.
- Experience in data-heavy systems, crawling infrastructure, or network-related systems is highly valuable.
- Python experience is a plus.
- Comfortable using AI-assisted tools (Copilot, ChatGPT, etc.) to enhance engineering productivity.
Nice to Have:
- Experience evolving legacy systems.
- Background in data-heavy systems (feeds, crawlers, analytics pipelines).
- Infrastructure, scalability, and performance tuning experience.
- Mentoring mid- and senior-level developers.
Benefits & Perks:
- Fully remote work.
- Healthcare coverage for you a