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Principal Backend Architect
Latino Legends. Own backend architecture across the platform and lead incremental decomposition of a large monolith into maintainable services .
Tech Stack
Tools & technologiesAzureCloudPostgres.NET
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Own backend architecture across the platform and lead incremental decomposition of a large monolith into maintainable services
- Establish backend engineering standards, best practices, tooling, shared libraries, service templates, and platform capabilities
- Lead API and contract design, including versioning and backward compatibility
- Own event-driven architecture using Azure Service Bus, including delivery guarantees, retries, idempotency, and failure recovery
- Define scalable customer and partner integration patterns
- Collaborate with the Data Architect on data ownership, transactional boundaries, access patterns, and query performance
- Improve platform reliability, security, observability, and cloud cost efficiency
- Champion AI-assisted engineering practices and adoption of AI tools and workflows
- Mentor engineers, review critical pull requests, facilitate technical office hours, and document architectural decisions through ADRs
- Contribute to incident response, technical interviews, quarterly planning, and occasional customer-facing technical discussions
- Work with the Lead/Principal Architect, Principal UI Architect, and Data Architect to drive technical direction
Requirements
What you’ll need- 10+ years of backend engineering experience, including several years in architecture or technical leadership roles at the principal level
- Deep, hands-on expertise in C# and .NET
- Experience with Azure services, particularly Azure Functions, Azure Service Bus, and Azure Data Factory
- Experience with PostgreSQL, Cosmos DB, Snowflake, CI/CD pipelines, and DevOps practices
- Experience incrementally decomposing large monolithic systems
- Strong understanding of event-driven and asynchronous architectures, including message ordering, idempotency, poison messages, retries, and dead-letter queues
- Extensive experience with API design, service contracts, versioning, and backward compatibility
- Strong data-access fundamentals, including query optimization, zero-downtime migrations, and handling inconsistent or complex customer data
- Proven production ownership, including observability, alerting, incident response, and root-cause analysis
- Daily, hands-on use of AI development tools such as Claude, Claude Code, or comparable agentic engineering tools
- Practical experience building AI-powered solutions involving agents, reusable skills, MCP servers, or evaluations
- Excellent written and spoken English
- Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences
- Ability to provide concrete examples of personally owned architectural decisions, trade-offs, and measurable outcomes
- Pragmatic engineering mindset and strong judgment
Benefits
Comp & perks- Company hardware will be shipped to the selected candidate
- Full-time remote independent contractor engagement
- Working on local holidays may be possible by prior arrangement