Platform Architect & Tech Vision Leader

Love Brand Group; Málaga; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Love Brand Group is seeking an experienced Lead Software Engineer & Platform Architect to own the technical vision for a multi-tenant SaaS platform. You will define standards, guide internal and external teams, and shape the platform from the ground up while balancing business priorities with long-term maintainability.

You will directly influence architecture, cloud infrastructure, and DevOps practices, ensuring scalability, security, and reliability as the company grows.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience designing, building, and operating production SaaS platforms.
• Proven ownership of technical direction, architecture, and standards.
• Hands-on backend engineering with cloud, APIs, and distributed systems.

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, integrations, 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, balancing business priorities with long-term maintainability.
• Define the long-term technical roadmap, balancing product delivery, technical debt reduction, platform evolution, and business priorities.
• Evaluate technology choices and make pragmatic build-versus-buy decisions.
• Mentor engineers through design discussions, code reviews, and technical coaching.
• Collaborate with Product and stakeholders to translate business requirements into pragmatic technical solutions.
• Provide technical leadership and architectural oversight for external development partners, ensuring engineering quality and alignment with platform standards.
• Drive root cause analysis of complex production issues and continuously improve platform resilience.
• Identify technical risks early and establish practical migration and modernization strategies.
• Remain hands-on by contributing to critical implementation work when required.
• Own the production infrastructure and DevOps practices – including CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, environment management, observability strategy, and incident response.

Skills

PHP/Laravel

Symfony

Node.js

Go

Clean Code

Hex architecture

DDD

Domain Events

CQRS

AWS

Docker

Infrastructure as Code

Observability

API-first

ADR

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

CI/CD tools

Job description

Love Brand Group is seeking an experienced Lead Software Engineer & Platform Architect to own the technical vision for a multi-tenant SaaS platform. You will define standards, guide internal and external teams, and shape the platform from the ground up while balancing business priorities with long-term maintainability.

You will directly influence architecture, cloud infrastructure, and DevOps practices, ensuring scalability, security, and reliability as the company grows.