Software Architect

About this role

<div class="content-intro"><p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Arionkoder is an AI consulting firm helping companies build, embed, and own AI systems that drive real business outcomes. We combine Product Development, Artificial Intelligence, and Team Augmentation to craft digital products and solutions that create lasting impact — guided by a human-centric approach and a commitment to pushing the boundaries of what technology can do.</span></p></div><p data-renderer-start-pos="224" data-local-id="94caaf12ea4a"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">We're hiring a Staff Software Architect to own the end-to-end design of a complex software product. The role spans the full architectural surface — data, services, integrations, infrastructure, security, reliability — and sits at the intersection of engineering, product, and the customer environments the product runs inside. The right person treats constraints like multi-tenancy, legacy interoperability, cost, and regulatory exposure as first-class design inputs, not afterthoughts.</span></p> <p data-renderer-start-pos="712" data-local-id="b9428a94328e"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>This is a hands-on architect role, not a diagrams-and-handoffs role </em>— but diagrams and decision records are part of the job. You communicate architecture clearly through C4 models (context, container, component) and lightweight ADRs that capture decisions, context, and trade-offs so the team doesn't re-litigate them six months later. You also write code on critical paths, review designs and PRs, take ownership when the parts you designed misbehave in production, and push back when a feature request would compromise the architecture. You're equally comfortable working in the abstract (RFCs, system models, trade-off analysis) and in the concrete (debugging a memory leak, profiling a hot path, rewriting an integration that's silently drifting).</span></p> <p data-renderer-start-pos="1465" data-local-id="8d88c477cf1e"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">You're comfortable in ambiguity. You can join a product mid-flight, form a sharp view of what's load-bearing and what's incidental, and propose a direction the team can rally behind. You treat <em class="Highlight hta149d95c-8d5d-4f04-8890-24a99d3757aa">AI</em>-augmented engineering as a force multiplier you wield with judgment — neither a gimmick nor a substitute for thinking.</span></p> <p data-renderer-start-pos="1465" data-local-id="8d88c477cf1e">&nbsp;</p> <p data-renderer-start-pos="1465" data-local-id="8d88c477cf1e">&nbsp;</p> <p data-renderer-start-pos="1465" data-local-id="8d88c477cf1e"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong data-renderer-mark="true">Required Qualifications</strong></span></p> <p data-renderer-start-pos="1465" data-local-id="8d88c477cf1e">&nbsp;</p> <ul class="ak-ul" data-local-id="de75b0f4-bbe2-493d-a40f-562e20866d4a" data-indent-level="1"> <li style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> <p data-renderer-start-pos="4366" data-local-id="21cb88ff6b3b"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong data-renderer-mark="true">10+ years</strong> building production distributed systems, with at least <strong data-renderer-mark="true">3 years in a Staff, Principal, or Architect role</strong></span></p> </li> <li style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> <p data-renderer-start-pos="4483" data-local-id="d71663326567"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Track record of <strong data-renderer-mark="true">owning architectural decisions</strong> end-to-end and being on the hook when they fail — not just authoring RFCs</span></p> </li> <li style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> <p data-renderer-start-pos="4607" data-local-id="e6dc5c8ba4b5"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Demonstrated fluency communicating architecture through <strong data-renderer-mark="true">C4 models</strong> and capturing decisions in <strong data-renderer-mark="true">ADRs</strong> (or equivalent decision-record discipline)</span></p> </li> <li style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> <p data-renderer-start-pos="4751" data-local-id="d1ef156d60f3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Strong fluency in <strong data-renderer-mark="true"><em class="Highlight hta149d95c-8d5d-4f04-8890-24a99d3757aa">JavaScript</em>/<em class="Highlight hta149d95c-8d5d-4f04-8890-24a99d3757aa">TypeScript</em> and <em class="Highlight ht42b2d969-b7c3-4430-a3d6-bfdc4d3aef3a">Python</em></strong>; comfortable reading and contributing across multiple languages and stacks</span></p> </li> <li style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> <p data-renderer-start-pos="4880" data-local-id="c0e16a323966"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong data-renderer-mark="true">Deep <em class="Highlight ht42b2d969-b7c3-4430-a3d6-bfdc4d3aef3a">AWS</em> architecture expertise</strong> — has designed and operated non-trivial multi-tenant systems across compute (ECS/EKS/Lambda), data (RDS, DynamoDB, S3), networking (VPC, ALB, PrivateLink), and identity (IAM, KMS, Secrets Manager); able to reason about cost, blast radius, and failure modes at the service level, not just the diagram level</span></p> </li> <li style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> <p data-renderer-start-pos="5221" data-local-id="a3205aa74982"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Production experience wit