Remote Solutions Architect: Scalable Microservices & Cloud

Catapult Solutions Group; United States; On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work hours

Fully remote environment

Occasional travel for company meetings

Job summary

Catapult Solutions Group is seeking a Solutions Architect to design and evolve distributed software systems, with emphasis on event-driven microservices, cloud-native infrastructure, and secure, compliant mobile/backend integration.

You will lead architecture reviews, mentor engineering teams, define scalable architectures with Kafka, Docker/Kubernetes, AWS, and IaC, and ensure HIPAA and data privacy requirements are met in ongoing initiatives.

Qualifications

• BS/CS or related field required, 8+ years software engineering with leadership.
• Expertise in Java, Spring Boot, and reactive programming in large-scale systems.
• Experience with event-driven architectures, Kafka topics and schema management.
• Cloud-native design on AWS with Kubernetes and IaC tools.

Responsibilities

• Define scalable microservices architecture using domain-driven design and distributed systems principles.
• Lead architecture reviews, threat modeling, and code reviews.
• Design and implement event-driven architectures with Kafka and schema management.
• Oversee mobile/backend integration, offline sync, and BFF patterns.
• Standardize containerization (Docker) and Kubernetes deployments.
• Define cloud-native solutions on AWS (EKS, EC2, S3, RDS/Aurora, Lambda).
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, AWS CDK/CloudFormation) to support GitOps.
• Ensure HIPAA compliance through encryption, access controls, and audit logging.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

Reactive programming

Kafka

GraphQL

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform / IaC

Security architecture

Education

Bachelor's degree or above in Computer Science or related field

Tools

PostgreSQL

Redis

Kafka

Docker

Job description

Catapult Solutions Group is seeking a Solutions Architect to design and evolve distributed software systems, with emphasis on event-driven microservices, cloud-native infrastructure, and secure, compliant mobile/backend integration.

You will lead architecture reviews, mentor engineering teams, define scalable architectures with Kafka, Docker/Kubernetes, AWS, and IaC, and ensure HIPAA and data privacy requirements are met in ongoing initiatives.