Remote Solutions Architect & Technical Lead (AI/Web)

Bolder Apps; United States; Remote; USD 96,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Bolder Apps is a product development studio helping US-based startups and companies build AI-powered digital products. As a Solutions Architect, you will lead technical discovery, design scalable architectures for web, mobile and AI products, and guide engineering teams from kickoff to launch.

You’ll review code, define data models, and own technical quality for multi-tenant, privacy-conscious solutions. The role emphasizes non-coding leadership, clear trade-offs to founders, and close

Qualifications

• 5+ years in software engineering, with at least 2 years designing systems as a solutions architect, technical lead or similar
• Agency, consultancy or studio background. You've designed for several clients at the same time and you can switch context without losing quality
• You've owned the architecture of client products that went live with real users. Diagrams that never shipped don't count
• Strong backend and data fundamentals. You've designed APIs and relational data models (Postgres or similar) and you know where they break
• Cloud architecture experience on AWS, Azure or GCP, including containers, deploys and monitoring
• Real integration design experience. Third-party APIs, webhooks, SSO and OAuth, background queues and failure handling
• Hands-on AI architecture. You've designed LLM or RAG features with evaluation for production client products, and you know what they change about cost, latency and testing
• Strong code and architecture reviewer. You can read a pull request, spot when it drifts from the design and explain the fix to the engineer
• Comfortable running client-facing technical calls. You can explain a trade-off to a non-technical founder in plain words
• AI-augmented workflow. You use AI tools every day in your own design, review and writing work
• Excellent written and spoken English. Clients read your documents and hear your voice directly
• Available for live client calls during US Eastern business hours

Responsibilities

• Lead technical discovery with clients. Turn a rough idea into a clear solution design
• Design the system architecture for web, mobile and AI products and define hosting and communication
• Write the technical parts of proposals and scopes of work with estimates
• Design integrations with third-party APIs and vendors with retries, queues and monitoring
• Plan multi-tenant and white-label setups with proper data isolation and access control
• Build security and privacy into architecture including encryption and audit logs
• Design AI and LLM features for client products with model choice and retrieval (RAG)
• Plan in phases: lean MVP first and keep design ready for full build
• Review dev team code, PRs and technical approach; explain changes clearly
• Guide engineers, set technical standards and own delivery quality
• Keep architecture docs current for team context

Skills

Technical discovery

System design

Proposal writing

Third-party integrations

Multi-tenant architecture

Security & privacy design

AI / LLM architecture

Code review

Client communication

English proficiency

US Eastern availability

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

PostgreSQL

NestJS

React

Job description

Bolder Apps is a product development studio helping US-based startups and companies build AI-powered digital products. As a Solutions Architect, you will lead technical discovery, design scalable architectures for web, mobile and AI products, and guide engineering teams from kickoff to launch.

You’ll review code, define data models, and own technical quality for multi-tenant, privacy-conscious solutions. The role emphasizes non-coding leadership, clear trade-offs to founders, and close