Technical Lead – Architect

Arionkoder

. Own the end-to-end architecture of the product across data, services, integrations, infrastructure, security, and reliability .

Posted 10/31/2026full-timeRemoteSeniorWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates extensive expertise in building production distributed systems, with a strong focus on AWS architecture and AI engineering tooling. Capable of leading architectural decisions, mentoring engineers, and communicating complex designs effectively.

Highest-signal resume keywords

AWS Architecture ExpertiseJavaScript/TypeScript ProficiencyC4 Model CommunicationAI/LLM-Powered Systems ExperienceProduction Code Ownership

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Hard Skills

Distributed Systems DevelopmentProduction Code WritingDesign ReviewSystems ThinkingTrade-Off AnalysisCritical Path CodingIntegration with Third-Party PlatformsVersioning Model DefinitionSchema DesignIncident Postmortem Analysis

Soft Skills

MentoringCommunicationCollaboration

Tools & Technologies

AWS ECSAWS EKSAWS LambdaAWS RDSAWS DynamoDBAWS S3AWS VPCAWS ALBAWS PrivateLinkAI Engineering Tooling

Industry Keywords

Architectural GuardrailsService Level AgreementsAudit ControlData ResidencySecurity Reviews

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSDistributed SystemsDynamoDBJavaScriptNode.jsPythonReactTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own the end-to-end architecture of the product across data, services, integrations, infrastructure, security, and reliability
Communicate architecture through current C4 diagrams and author and curate ADRs
Set architectural guardrails, including boundaries, contracts, and SLAs
Make build/buy/integrate decisions and define the product’s canonical schema, versioning model, and core abstractions
Write production code on critical paths, lead design reviews, review PRs, prototype difficult problems, and stabilize production systems
Drive deployment, data residency, audit, access control, permissions, and audit-log architecture
Lead systemic reliability responses and incident postmortems, converting findings into architectural and roadmap improvements
Partner with engineering leadership and Product to translate architecture into shippable increments
Mentor engineers on systems thinking, trade-off analysis, and design clarity
Represent the product architecture to enterprise customers during technical evaluations and security reviews
Use AI engineering tooling daily and set team patterns for spec-driven development, evaluation gates, and AI-assisted code review

Requirements

What you’ll need

10+ years building production distributed systems, with at least 3 years in a Staff, Principal, or Architect role
Strong fluency in JavaScript/TypeScript, React, and Node.js; comfortable reading and contributing across multiple languages and stacks
Deep AWS architecture expertise, including ECS/EKS/Lambda, RDS, DynamoDB, S3, VPC, ALB, PrivateLink, IAM, KMS, and Secrets Manager
Ability to reason about cost, blast radius, and failure modes at the service level
Experience writing code on critical paths, reviewing designs and PRs, and owning production issues
Experience with Python
Experience communicating architecture through C4 models and lightweight ADRs
Hands-on production experience with at least one AI/LLM-powered system, including retrieval, prompt/context design, cost, and failure modes
Experience integrating with at least three meaningful third-party platforms in production

Benefits

Comp & perks

Monthly USD Service Fee
20 business days of paid Agreed Time Off—Annual + 6 Local Holidays
Caregiver Time Off
A dynamic remote work culture. You can work from anywhere!
An entrepreneurial environment.