Platform Architect & Tech Lead (Hands-on) Spain

Love Brand Group; Valladolid; On-site; EUR 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Love Brand Group is seeking an experienced Principal Software Engineer to own the technical vision, architecture, and long-term evolution of our multi-tenant SaaS platform. This hands-on role combines leadership with direct coding contribution to shape the platform, ensure scale, security and reliability, and drive engineering culture.

You will define standards, lead architecture reviews, and collaborate with product and external partners to deliver pragmatic technical solutions aligned with

Qualifications

• Extensive experience designing, building, and operating production SaaS platforms.
• Proven experience owning the technical direction of a software platform, with responsibility for architecture, engineering standards, and technical decision-making.
• Strong backend engineering experience with modern application architectures.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems, APIs, asynchronous processing, event-driven architectures, and cloud platforms.
• Experience mentoring senior engineers and leading architecture reviews and engineering standards.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical vision, architecture, and long-term evolution of the platform.
• Define engineering standards, architectural principles, and software development best practices.
• Provide technical leadership across the platform, guiding architectural decisions and ensuring consistency across internal teams and external development partners.
• Design scalable, secure, resilient, and maintainable backend systems and cloud infrastructure.
• Lead architecture reviews, technical design discussions, and critical code reviews.
• Guide the evolution of APIs, data models, distributed services, and platform capabilities.
• Drive improvements in scalability, reliability, observability, security, performance, and operational excellence.
• Take ownership of the platform's technical health and long-term maintainability.
• Define the long-term technical roadmap balancing product delivery and platform evolution.
• Mentor engineers through design discussions and code reviews.
• Collaborate with Product to translate requirements into technical solutions.
• Provide architectural oversight for external partners and ensure engineering quality.

Skills

Architecture

SaaS platforms

AWS

Distributed systems

Mentoring

Code reviews

Job description

Love Brand Group is seeking an experienced Principal Software Engineer to own the technical vision, architecture, and long-term evolution of our multi-tenant SaaS platform. This hands-on role combines leadership with direct coding contribution to shape the platform, ensure scale, security and reliability, and drive engineering culture.

You will define standards, lead architecture reviews, and collaborate with product and external partners to deliver pragmatic technical solutions aligned with