Remote Solutions Architect for AI-Driven, Secure Systems

Bolder Apps; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 96,000 - 165,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Hourly contract

Fully remote (US)

Direct client interactions

Ownership over design

Job summary

Bolder Apps is seeking a Solutions Architect to lead the design of systems behind our web, mobile, and AI products for US-based clients. This role is a contract, hourly, fully remote position open to anyone in the United States.

You will own the technical quality from kickoff to launch, guide the dev team, review code and architecture, and ensure everything ships as designed. Expect to work across multi-tenant setups, third-party integrations, and strong privacy and security requirements.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in software engineering, with systems design experience
• Agency/consultancy or studio background delivering for multiple clients
• Owned architecture of client products deployed to real users
• Strong backend and data fundamentals; API design and relational modeling
• Cloud architecture experience on AWS/Azure/GCP with containers and monitoring
• Hands-on AI architecture thinking with production-ready considerations
• Strong code and architecture review skills; ability to explain trade-offs clearly
• Excellent written and spoken English for client communications

Responsibilities

• Lead technical discovery with clients to shape a clear solution design
• Design system architecture for web, mobile and AI products and define data models
• Write technical parts of proposals, scopes of work, and estimates
• Design integrations with third-party APIs, plan retries, queues, webhooks and monitoring
• Plan multi-tenant and white-label setups with proper data isolation and access control
• Incorporate security and privacy from day one: encryption, audits, data residency
• Design AI/LLM features including model choice, RAG, guardrails and production testing
• Plan in phases; ship lean MVP first and prepare for full build
• Collaborate with sales and PMs on scope, timelines and risk
• Review dev team code and architecture; guide engineers to align with design
• Keep architecture docs current for onboarding and context

Skills

Software engineering

System design

Technical leadership

API design

Cloud architecture

AI architecture

Code review

Client communication

Tools

PostgreSQL

AWS

Azure

GCP

NestJS

React

Job description

Bolder Apps is seeking a Solutions Architect to lead the design of systems behind our web, mobile, and AI products for US-based clients. This role is a contract, hourly, fully remote position open to anyone in the United States.

You will own the technical quality from kickoff to launch, guide the dev team, review code and architecture, and ensure everything ships as designed. Expect to work across multi-tenant setups, third-party integrations, and strong privacy and security requirements.