Platform Architect — Scalable Backend & DevTools

Wag Walking; Miami (FL); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Wag! Group Co. is seeking a senior platform engineer to drive core platform, infrastructure, and developer tooling behind Wag!

products. This role is both hands‑on and strategic: you will design and implement core systems, define the platform roadmap, and work across engineering teams to ensure we have a secure, reliable, and scalable foundation. You’ll report directly to the CTO and be trusted to identify problems, set direction, and execute solutions without day‑to‑day oversight.

Qualifications

• Significant backend software development experience.
• Familiarity with PHP and Python.
• Strong experience with containerization (Docker) and CI/CD pipeline design.
• Expertise designing and maintaining cloud infrastructure; ideally in AWS.
• Proficiency with Terraform (or equivalent IaC tools).
• Proven ability to design complex and reliable systems with minimal oversight.
• Experience driving cross‑team initiatives and influencing technical direction.
• Solid understanding of reliability engineering, monitoring, and incident management.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work with multiple engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement complex backend systems within the Wag backend application.
• Design cross‑platform and cross‑team system architecture.
• Design and implement build and deployment pipelines, containerization (Docker, GitLab CI/CD), and developer tooling.
• Incorporate AI powered solutions to support platform quality and developer productivity.
• Define and maintain the platform roadmap balancing reliability, productivity, debt and cost.
• Design incident response procedures including observability and on‑call tooling.
• Contribute infrastructure as code using Terraform.
• Mentor engineers on infrastructure and platform best practices.
• Ensure Security & Compliance in platform design with Security Manager.

Skills

Backend development

Cross-team collaboration

Reliability engineering

Monitoring

Incident management

Leadership/mentorship

Communication

Tools

Docker

CI/CD

Terraform

AWS

Job description

Wag! Group Co. is seeking a senior platform engineer to drive core platform, infrastructure, and developer tooling behind Wag!

products. This role is both hands‑on and strategic: you will design and implement core systems, define the platform roadmap, and work across engineering teams to ensure we have a secure, reliable, and scalable foundation. You’ll report directly to the CTO and be trusted to identify problems, set direction, and execute solutions without day‑to‑day oversight.