Remote Cloud-Native Backend Architect

Tech Mirrors; Newark (NJ); Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Tech Mirrors is seeking a Backend Architect to define and drive the architecture for scalable, cloud-native backend platforms in a remote setting.

The role focuses on API design, event-driven systems, and enterprise integrations across loyalty, identity, payments, and customer engagement. You will lead architectural decisions, governance, and platform modernization while collaborating with product and engineering leadership.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of backend engineering and architecture experience focusing on Python-based ecosystems.
• Deep expertise in FastAPI, REST API design, asynchronous programming, and distributed systems.
• Experience architecting large-scale event-driven platforms and cloud-native microservices on AWS.
• Strong understanding of data structures, distributed computing, and high-performance backend design.
• Experience defining CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), and observability practices.
• Leadership, stakeholder management, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Define and own backend architecture strategy for enterprise e-commerce and loyalty platforms.
• Architect scalable cloud-native and event-driven ecosystems using Python (FastAPI) and AWS services.
• Establish architecture standards, governance, and platform best practices across backend systems.
• Drive modernization, integration architecture, and reusable service design patterns.
• Define hub-and-spoke orchestration for loyalty, commerce, payments, CMS, identity, and engagement.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to backend teams.

Skills

Python FastAPI

REST API design

Distributed systems

AWS cloud

Event-driven architecture

Leadership

Stakeholder mgmt

Tools

Kafka

RabbitMQ

Terraform

AWS Lambda

Job description

Tech Mirrors is seeking a Backend Architect to define and drive the architecture for scalable, cloud-native backend platforms in a remote setting.

The role focuses on API design, event-driven systems, and enterprise integrations across loyalty, identity, payments, and customer engagement. You will lead architectural decisions, governance, and platform modernization while collaborating with product and engineering leadership.