Remote Lead Platform Architect: Build Scalable SaaS Core

Worky; United States; On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

KENTECH Consulting Inc. is seeking a Lead Platform Architect / Technical Lead to design and personally help build the technical foundation of a new enterprise software platform. This is not a traditional enterprise architect role and not a management-heavy position.

The successful candidate will report to the Founder & CEO and will influence architecture, engineering standards, and the initial engineering team.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Experience as Staff/Principal Engineer, Lead Engineer, Platform Architect, or technical lead.
• Proven track record designing production SaaS applications and multi-tenant systems.
• Deep AWS experience designing secure production systems and CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Design a secure, scalable multi-tenant enterprise SaaS platform.
• Write production software alongside senior engineers.
• Establish domain and data architecture and API design.
• Define cloud, deployment, and infrastructure standards and processes.
• Help recruit and mentor the initial engineering team.

Skills

Staff Engineer / Principal Engineer

Lead Engineer

Platform Architect

Technical Lead

SaaS architecture

Backend engineering

API design

Security thinking

Cloud architecture (AWS)

CI/CD

Tools

PostgreSQL

AWS

Docker

Infrastructure as Code

Job description

KENTECH Consulting Inc. is seeking a Lead Platform Architect / Technical Lead to design and personally help build the technical foundation of a new enterprise software platform. This is not a traditional enterprise architect role and not a management-heavy position.

The successful candidate will report to the Founder & CEO and will influence architecture, engineering standards, and the initial engineering team.