Remote Senior Full-Stack Solutions Architect — Modernization

Productiv Team; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Productiv Team in the United States is seeking a Senior Full-Stack Solutions Architect to define target-state architecture, guide modernization, and stay hands-on to validate designs and resolve production issues. You will own solution architecture across UI, backend services, APIs and data stores, translate business needs into current-state, transition-state, and target-state designs.

This role requires mentoring engineers, leading design reviews, and communicating architectural decisions

Qualifications

• 12+ years in software/platform engineering, including 5+ years leading solution or enterprise architecture.
• Strong hands-on experience with PHP 7/8 using an MVC or singleton framework, plus a modern JavaScript framework -Vue.js 2 or 3 required
• Proven experience building and integrating RESTful APIs to OpenAPI standards
• Practical experience with MongoDB and Redis, including performance, replication, and data integrity considerations
• Core AWS knowledge (EC2, ECS), networking for application deployment, IAM, and Docker/container platforms
• Ability to produce clear architecture documentation and explain trade-offs, risks, and decisions to technical and nontechnical audiences alike
• Proven judgment balancing strategic architecture with incremental delivery, legacy constraints, and operational realities

Responsibilities

• Own solution architecture across UI, backend services, APIs/integrations, databases, cloud infrastructure, and security, translating business needs into current-state, transition-state, and target-state designs
• Design and guide modernization of full-stack applications built on PHP (7/8) with MVC or singleton frameworks, and Vue.js (2 or 3) on the front end
• Architect and develop RESTful APIs following OpenAPI standards, defining integration, authentication, versioning, and error-handling practices
• Design data and caching strategies using MongoDB and Redis, including schema design, performance, replication, and backup/restore
• Design and deploy secure, scalable AWS architectures using EC2 and ECS, with sound networking and IAM practices, containerized via Docker
• Establish observability, high-availability, and disaster-recovery patterns, and lead investigations into performance, security, and integration issues
• Mentor engineers, lead design reviews, and communicate architectural decisions clearly to both technical and executive stakeholders

Skills

Solution architecture leadership

PHP MVC frameworks

Vue.js 2/3

OpenAPI RESTful APIs

MongoDB/Redis

AWS EC2/ECS

Docker container platforms

Architecture documentation

Stakeholder communication

Security and networking

Tools

Docker

MongoDB

Redis

OpenAPI

AWS (EC2/ECS)

Vue.js

PHP 7/8

Job description

Productiv Team in the United States is seeking a Senior Full-Stack Solutions Architect to define target-state architecture, guide modernization, and stay hands-on to validate designs and resolve production issues. You will own solution architecture across UI, backend services, APIs and data stores, translate business needs into current-state, transition-state, and target-state designs.

This role requires mentoring engineers, leading design reviews, and communicating architectural decisions