Marketing Systems Architect (Vibe Coder)

Azarian Growth Agency; Glendale (CA); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive base salary

Performance bonuses

Access to AI tools and courses

Flexible location and hours

Job summary

Azarian Growth Agency is seeking a Marketing Systems Architect to manage and enhance our marketing technology stack. In this hybrid role, you will design, implement, and maintain systems that facilitate data-driven marketing strategies across various platforms.

Ideal candidates will have strong backend development skills and an understanding of marketing funnels, as well as experience with various integrations and automations in a team environment.

Qualifications

• Building or maintaining REST APIs and backend systems.
• Ability to build or change UIs for internal tools.
• Debugging production and improving documentation.
• Understanding awareness to conversion metrics.
• Using analytics to decide optimizations.
• Proposing automation to streamline processes.
• Communicating technical details to non-technical teams.

Responsibilities

• Design and ship new features for marketing systems.
• Own reliability and maintain backend performance.
• Propose and implement new services for marketing.
• Train marketing team on automation and APIs.

Skills

Backend experience

Frontend comfort

Ownership

Full-funnel awareness

Data-driven

Prompting and AI tools

Systems thinking

Translation

Tools

Node.js

React

PostgreSQL

Docker

Git

Job description

Hybrid | Full-Time | Technical + Marketing Leadership

About Azarian Growth Agency

Azarian Growth Agency was founded in 2020 by Hamlet Azarian, specializing in data-driven, full-funnel growth marketing strategies. We combine serious engineering with AI agent workflows to build marketing systems that run 24/7 across content, PPC, integrations, and analytics.

We’re not just running campaigns – we’re building reusable, observable, self-optimizing systems. You’ll work on the same stack that powers our content engine, PPC engine, integrations, and website analysis – and help extend it.

About the Role

You are the technical owner of our marketing systems: you build new features and services, maintain production backends and automation, and grow the platform so the team can scale from campaign execution to system orchestration.

You’ll work in our real codebase: TypeScript microservices (Express, Prisma, PostgreSQL, Redis, BullMQ), Next.js/React frontends, Docker, and observability (OpenTelemetry/SigNoz). You’ll also design and improve automation (e.g., n8n, AI agents) that sits on top of these systems. Success means our marketing team can rely on a stable, documented, evolving infrastructure – and you can ship new capabilities without constant firefighting.

What You’ll Do

Build

• Design and ship new features across our services (e.g. content-engine, ppc-engine, integration-service, website-analysis-service)
• Add and maintain API integrations (WordPress, Google Analytics, CRMs, ad platforms) and document them
• Build internal tools, dashboards, and automation (n8n, scripts, MCP) that use our APIs and data
• Implement and refine job queues (BullMQ), background workers, and event-driven flows where they add value

Maintain

• Own reliability: debugging production issues, improving error handling, logging, and alerting
• Run and evolve database migrations (Prisma), env/config, and deployment (Docker, scripts)
• Keep dependencies, security, and performance in check across repos
• Document systems, runbooks, and onboarding so others can operate and extend the stack

Grow

• Propose and implement new services or connectors that support marketing use cases
• Improve observability (traces, metrics, logs) and use it to drive optimization
• Train and enable the marketing team on automation, APIs, and “system thinking”
• Align technical choices with marketing outcomes (conversion, attribution, scalability)

Our Stack (What You’ll Work In)

You don’t need every item on day one, but you should be able to get productive and grow into the rest.

Integrations & automation Custom connectors (WordPress, Google Analytics, etc.), webhooks, OAuth; n8n for workflow automation; Claude Code / AI-assisted development in daily use.

Observability & ops SigNoz (OpenTelemetry), Winston logging, health checks, env-based config.

What You Bring

Technical Skills (Required)

• Backend experience : Building or maintaining REST APIs, databases (SQL/ORM), and background jobs or queues. Experience with Node.js + Express (or similar) and PostgreSQL is a strong plus
• Frontend comfort : Ability to build or change UIs (e.g. React/Next.js, HTML/CSS/JS) for internal tools, landing pages, or dashboards
• Integrations : Connecting systems via REST, webhooks, OAuth; dealing with third-party APIs and failure modes
• Ownership : You’ve debugged production, written runbooks, and left codebases better than you found them
• Git & collaboration : Normal professional habits: branching, PRs, clear commits, and working in a multi-repo setup

Marketing Knowledge (Required)

• Full-funnel awareness : You understand awareness → consideration → conversion → retention and how metrics map to each stage
• Channel experience : Hands-on work in at least 2–3 of: paid social, SEO, PPC, email, content, or outreach
• Data-driven : You use analytics and experiments to decide what to build or optimize; you’re at ease with GA4 or similar
• Automation mindset : You’ve used marketing automation (HubSpot, Klaviyo, ActiveCampaign, etc.) or built workflows that replace manual, repetitive work

AI & Systems Thinking (Required)

• Prompting and AI tools : You use LLMs and AI-assisted coding (Claude, Cursor, etc.) to ship faster and clarify requirements
• Systems thinking : You spot repetition and bottlenecks and propose automation or productized solutions, not one-off scripts
• Pragmatic “vibe coding” : You’re willing to prototype quickly, learn from usage, and refactor when the right abstraction is clear

Communication (Required)

• Translation : You explain technical constraints and options to non-engineers and translate marketing needs into clear specs
• Documentation : You document as you go so others can maintain and extend your work
• Async and cross-functional : You work well in Slack, Asana, Loom, and with distributed teams (e.g. Armenia, Colombia, US)

Bonus Points

• Experience with Prisma , BullMQ/Redis , or OpenTelemetry
• n8n , Make, or Zapier at “power user” or “designer” level
• Model Context Protocol (MCP) or AI agent frameworks
• Docker and basic cloud/infra (AWS/GCP, envs, secrets)
• Agency or multi-tenant product experience (multiple clients or brands in one system)

What We Offer

• Ownership : You’re the person we rely on to build, maintain, and grow our marketing systems
• Real stack : Work in a modern TypeScript/Node/React stack with observability and clear separation of services
• Autonomy : We care about outcomes and reliability; how you get there is up to you
• Learning : Access to AI tools, courses, and a team that values both marketing and engineering
• Compensation : Competitive base salary and performance bonuses tied to system impact and client results
• Remote-first : Flexible location and hours, async-first communication
• Impact : Your work directly scales client growth and agency revenue
• Team : Collaborate with a 30+ person international team
• Growth path : Clear path to Senior Marketing Systems Architect, Head of Automation, or CTO-track roles

30-60-90 Day Plan

Phase 1: Foundation & Ownership (Days 1–30)

• Master the vibe marketing stack : Deep dive into our current tools (TypeScript, Node 18+, Express.js, REST, PostgreSQL, Prisma ORM, JWT, OpenTelemetry, Docker, React, Tailwind, TipTap, Zustand, Lucide, Playwright, Python, Next.js, n8n, Google Analytics, Asana, Slack) and understand how they connect to create marketing systems
• Learn the system : Run key services locally (content-engine, auth-service, integration-service), follow existing docs, and map how data flows between services
• Stabilize : Fix or document 3–5 known pain points (errors, missing docs, confusing config)
• Automation baseline : Deliver 2–3 reusable n8n (or equivalent) workflow templates for common marketing tasks and document how they call our APIs
• Team enablement : Run 1–2 sessions on “how our systems work” and how to request new automation or integrations
• Standards : Contribute to or create a short “how we build and deploy” guide (branching, envs, logging, PR expectations)

Phase 2: Build & Integrate (Days 31–60)

• Ship a feature or connector : Implement one meaningful change (e.g. new integration-service connector, content-engine feature, or reporting pipeline) from spec to deploy
• Reporting and data : Build or improve at least one automated reporting path (dashboard or workflow) that pulls from our APIs and/or external tools
• Quality : Add or improve tests, error handling, or observability in one critical path
• Upskill : Help 3–5 team members use our systems and automation for their day-to-day work

Phase 3: Scale & Roadmap (Days 61–90)

• Orchestration : Design or implement one “orchestration” improvement (e.g. multi-campaign logic, agent workflows, or better queue usage) that makes the system easier to scale
• Reliability : Put in place clearer monitoring, runbooks, or alerts for at least one production service
• Knowledge base : Leave a small internal library: workflow catalog, troubleshooting notes, and “how to add a new connector/feature.”
• Strategy : Propose a 6-month technical roadmap (new services, tech debt, automation) aligned with marketing goals

Our Philosophy: From Campaign Execution to System Orchestration

Traditional Mindset Our Mindset

“I need to run a campaign.” “I need to build a system that runs campaigns.”

“Should we test A or B?” “How do we test many variants systematically?”

“I need a designer/copywriter/analyst for this.” “I need to design the workflow and data flow.”

“This will take 3 weeks to launch.” “I can validate this idea in a few hours.”

“I’m an executor.” “I’m an orchestrator.”

As our Marketing Systems Architect, you’re the technical enabler of this shift: you build the systems that make it possible, keep them running, and grow them over time.