Remote Tech Lead — Platform & API Owner

clasp-group; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental and vision coverage

401(k) match

Cash and equity compensation

Student loan repayment

Flexible paid time off

Job summary

clasp-group is seeking a remote Senior Software Architect to lead the technical direction of a shared-services team supporting a talent platform. You will balance hands-on development with architecture decisions and mentor engineers across product and domain teams.

The role emphasizes reliable foundations that enable other teams to deliver product work efficiently, with travel as needed and collaboration across Eastern/Central time zones.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in system design and API design, able to explain tradeoffs to nontechnical partners.
• Lead technical direction while contributing code and mentoring engineers.
• Experience with shared platform services, integrations, and operational ownership.
• Ability to work across product and engineering teams to define requirements and drive adoption.

Responsibilities

• Guide shared services for identity, authentication, access control, and notifications.
• Design partner data integrations using APIs, events, webhooks, or file exchanges with clear contracts and observability.
• Build reusable services, libraries, and patterns, and document them for adoption by other teams.
• Contribute code across front end and back end, review changes, and set standards for design, quality, and security.
• Coordinate with product, security, and compliance partners on identity, consent, and data handling needs.
• Plan milestones, balance platform investments with feature requests, and mentor engineers.

Skills

System design

API design

Technical leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

clasp-group is seeking a remote Senior Software Architect to lead the technical direction of a shared-services team supporting a talent platform. You will balance hands-on development with architecture decisions and mentor engineers across product and domain teams.

The role emphasizes reliable foundations that enable other teams to deliver product work efficiently, with travel as needed and collaboration across Eastern/Central time zones.