Remote Platform & API Architect Lead

signifyd95; United States; Remote; USD 190,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Performance bonus eligibility

Parental leave

Health insurance

Learning budget

Retirement matching

Job summary

signifyd95 is seeking a technical leader to set the direction for a retailer integration platform, including its public APIs and data ingestion services. You will guide architecture and long-term health across teams, turning ambiguous problems into durable foundations that support other engineering work.

You will define a multi-year vision, make architecture decisions, and own platform health, quality, testing, and operability, while mentoring engineers in AI tool usage and cross-team

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent with substantial software development experience.
• Ability to set technical direction across teams and deliver large initiatives.
• Strong architecture skills and well-designed interfaces.
• Experience owning long-term health of significant systems, including testing and operability.
• Background building distributed systems or large-scale public APIs; cloud platforms (AWS/GCP).
• Influence without formal authority; communicate with technical and nontechnical partners; AI tool usage reviewed for correctness, security, maintainability.

Responsibilities

• Define and deliver a multi-year technical vision for integration and ingestion systems across teams.
• Make architecture decisions, including technology selection and build-versus-buy tradeoffs.
• Own platform quality through health reviews, testing strategy, maintainability, and operability.
• Design foundational systems under ambiguity and improve interfaces used across teams.
• Partner with product, data, and engineering to align roadmaps around shared solutions.
• Identify technical debt, guide its reduction, review designs and code, and mentor engineers in AI tool usage.

Skills

Software development

Functional programming

Technical leadership

Architecture design

System health

Distributed systems

Public APIs

Cloud platforms (AWS/GCP)

AI tool usage review

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience

Tools

Java

SQL

gRPC

HTTP/REST

Kubernetes

Docker

Linux

Cassandra

Pub/Sub

Bigtable

Databricks

Job description

signifyd95 is seeking a technical leader to set the direction for a retailer integration platform, including its public APIs and data ingestion services. You will guide architecture and long-term health across teams, turning ambiguous problems into durable foundations that support other engineering work.

You will define a multi-year vision, make architecture decisions, and own platform health, quality, testing, and operability, while mentoring engineers in AI tool usage and cross-team