Staff Platform Architect: AI‑Powered System Design

Scentbird; Norway; Remote; NOK 1,200,000 - 1,700,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive base compensation

Bonus program

Paid Time Off

Wellness Days Off

Job summary

Scentbird is seeking a Staff Platform Architect to shape our evolving platform and drive AI-enabled capabilities across engineering. You will own platform architecture, set engineering standards, and guide cross-team decisions while leading a small platform team.

The role demands hands-on system design, architectural conviction, and fluency in English to communicate complex concepts across technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience with platform architecture focus.
• Deep Java expertise including modern JVM performance and concurrency.
• Experience with distributed systems, APIs, and cloud patterns on AWS.
• Hands-on AI-powered systems design and tool integration.
• Strong data modeling, async messaging (Kafka), and caching at scale.

Responsibilities

• Own platform architecture and AI enablement across the company.
• Lead design of platform services, APIs, data contracts, and patterns.
• Identify and implement AI opportunities to boost productivity and outcomes.
• Set cross-team standards and shape long-term technical direction.
• Directly mentor a small platform team and ensure production readiness.

Skills

Extensive software engineering

Java JVM expertise

Distributed systems

AI-powered systems

System design

API design REST/GraphQL

Kafka/messaging

AWS cloud

Leadership/mentoring

English communication

Tools

Micronaut

Spring Boot

Kubernetes

GraalVM

Job description

Scentbird is seeking a Staff Platform Architect to shape our evolving platform and drive AI-enabled capabilities across engineering. You will own platform architecture, set engineering standards, and guide cross-team decisions while leading a small platform team.

The role demands hands-on system design, architectural conviction, and fluency in English to communicate complex concepts across technical and non-technical stakeholders.