Solutions Architect

<h3>Accountabilities:</h3><ul>
<li>Share ownership of technical strategy, architectural standards, engineering priorities, and technology direction.</li>
<li>Own technical and product roadmaps for internal products, prioritizing initiatives according to user needs and business value.</li>
<li>Bring a product-focused approach to client projects by challenging requirements, identifying better solutions, and prioritizing work that delivers meaningful business outcomes.</li>
<li>Design solution architectures for new client projects and internal products from discovery through delivery.</li>
<li>Participate in sales and pre-sales discussions, helping scope projects, estimate effort, and translate business goals into actionable technical plans.</li>
<li>Review and challenge architectural decisions across engineering teams and provide hands-on support for critical or high-risk technical problems.</li>
<li>Evaluate build-versus-buy decisions, technology choices, and AI adoption based on cost, risk, scalability, and expected return on investment.</li>
<li>Represent engineering in discussions with executive leaders and client stakeholders, including C-level audiences.</li>
<li>Mentor tech leads and senior engineers while raising standards for code quality, security, architecture, and delivery practices.</li>
<li>Contribute directly to engineering work through code reviews, prototypes, technical investigations, and hands-on problem solving.</li>
<h2>Requirements:</h2>
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<li>10+ years of professional software development experience, including at least 3 years in an architect, principal engineer, or technical leadership position.</li>
<li>Current hands-on coding ability, with confidence reviewing pull requests, prototyping solutions, and contributing to complex technical work.</li>
<li>Experience with AI-powered engineering and AI adoption within the software development lifecycle, including knowledge of modern AI and agent capabilities.</li>
<li>Proven experience designing distributed, cloud-native, scalable systems.</li>
<li>Demonstrated product ownership experience, taking products or major features from problem definition through launch and subsequent iteration using user feedback and performance metrics.</li>
<li>Strong hands-on experience with Node.js, React, and Next.js.</li>
<li>Strong knowledge of Python for scripting, data processing, backend services, or related applications.</li>
<li>Proven experience working directly with clients or executives on project scope, budgets, technical trade-offs, and delivery expectations.</li>
<li>Strong business judgment and the ability to clearly explain how technical decisions influence cost, timelines, risk, and revenue.</li>
<li>Experience estimating and scoping software projects.</li>
<li>Excellent written and spoken English.</li>
<li>Availability to work within the PST time zone.</li>
<li>Previous experience working effectively within remote, distributed teams.</li>
<li>Strong communication, mentoring, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.</li>
<h2>Benefits:</h2>
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<li>Fully remote work environment with the flexibility to work from a location and schedule that suit you.</li>
<li>Flexible working hours, provided you maintain a stable internet connection and meet role expectations.</li>
<li>Opportunity to work with modern technologies and contribute to challenging, innovative software projects.</li>
<li>Paid training and professional development opportunities.</li>
<li>Consistent access to engaging and technically challenging work.</li>
<li>Annual pay increases based on strong performance.</li>
<li>Hourly compensation with a starting rate negotiated according to skills and experience.</li>
<li>Monthly contractor payments via wire transfer.</li>
<li>Opportunity to collaborate with an international, distributed team of software professionals.</li>
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