Software Architect

Role Overview:
As an architect, your primary mission is to architect current backend, frontend and mobile landscape from multiple overlapping producs into a more unified, modular platform.

You will define which capabilities should become shared platform services and which should remain product-specific.

Key Responsibilities

• Define a long-term platform architecture and modernization roadmap.
• Identify duplicated domains across backends and convert them into shared services.
• Leverage AI-assisted engineering and design tools (e.g., Claude Code, Codex, or similar) to accelerate system design, code generation, refactoring, and documentation workflows.
• Decide which domains should remain product-specific, such as sport sessions, shot data, reports, leaderboards, simulations, games, and tournaments.
• Define service boundaries, API contracts, ownership models, and migration patterns.
• Establish architecture standards.
• Guide migration using safe patterns such as strangler fig, dual-write, feature flags, and backward-compatible APIs.
• Mentor engineers and review major technical designs.
• Evaluate and recommend technologies, frameworks, and tools to support the development process.
• Work closely with DevOps to improve CI/CD, deployment, monitoring, and service operations.
• Create technical documentation, architecture decision records, and service ownership maps.
• Allocate a significant portion of working time to hands-on design review, code review, and active coding, serving as the technical quality gatekeeper across development teams.
• Contribute directly to codebases — writing, refactoring, and optimizing code — ensuring architectural decisions are validated through hands-on implementation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• At least 7+ years of proven experience as a Software Architect or a similar role in software development.Strong experience architecting and modernizing complex backend systems.
• Proven experience decomposing monoliths or fragmented services into modular platforms.
• Deep knowledge of microservices, modular monoliths, service-oriented architecture, and domain-driven design.
• Strong backend development experience with Go (Golang) and/or Node.js.
• Proven experience object-oriented programming languages (e.g., C#, Java, Kotlin),
• Proven experience with FrontEnd frameworks ( React, Vue )
• Strong database design experience with PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or comparable systems.
• Experience with Cloud Platforms ( GCP, AWS )
• Experience designing APIs, service contracts, authentication flows, and integration patterns.
• Experience with cloud-native architecture, Docker, queues, object storage, and distributed systems.
• Experience leveraging AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Claude Code, Copilot, Cursor, or similar) in engineering workflows.
• Ability to balance ideal architecture with incremental delivery and business risk.
• Excellent communication skills with engineering, product, DevOps, QA, and leadership teams.

Nice to Have

• Experience with Kafka.
• Experience creating shared platform services for multiple products.
• Experience in sports technology, hardware-connected platforms, IoT, device management, or data-heavy systems.
• Strong understanding of authentication, authorization, identity providers, OAuth/OIDC, JWT, and SSO.
• Experience with migration strategies for production systems with active users.
• Experience defining engineering standards across multiple backend teams.
• Experience with payment systems, device platforms, notifications, or subscription systems is a strong plus.