Senior System Architect: Design Scalable AI Automation

PromptPartner; Zürich; Hybrid; CHF 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote (Europe)

Hybrid in Zurich

Base + Performance Bonus

Equity package

Learning budget

Home office setup

Job summary

PromptPartner is building AI automation systems for European businesses. You design scalable architectures, decide on DBs and APIs, and balance speed with reliability. You will mentor engineers, document decisions, and help ensure systems grow without breaking.

The role emphasizes pragmatic architecture choices, collaboration with cross-functional teams, and hands-on contribution to design decisions that scale with AI-driven workflows.

Qualifications

• Experience designing scalable, reliable architectures for automation platforms.
• Ability to explain complex choices to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Mentor engineers on architectural thinking and best practices.

Responsibilities

• Design system architectures for automation platforms that scale
• Make technical decisions about databases, APIs, integrations, and infrastructure
• Balance trade-offs between speed, reliability, and complexity
• Review and improve existing systems to handle growth
• Document decisions so the team understands the why
• Mentor developers on architectural thinking

Skills

System design

Scale & reliability

Mentoring

Architectural decisions

Trade-off analysis

Communication

Tools

PostgreSQL

REST/GraphQL

APIs & Integrations

n8n/automation tools

Job description

PromptPartner is building AI automation systems for European businesses. You design scalable architectures, decide on DBs and APIs, and balance speed with reliability. You will mentor engineers, document decisions, and help ensure systems grow without breaking.

The role emphasizes pragmatic architecture choices, collaboration with cross-functional teams, and hands-on contribution to design decisions that scale with AI-driven workflows.