Senior AI-Driven Architect, Payroll & HR Platforms

Jobtailor; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 210,000 - 310,000; Full time

Job summary

Homebase is seeking a senior engineering leader to drive technical vision and architecture across Payroll, Scheduling, Time Tracking, and HR Management domains. You will define an architecture scalable to 100K+ SMBs and steer internal API strategy for speed and external integrations.

You will decompose core product systems into bounded services using domain-driven design and SOA, mentor engineers, and partner with leadership on roadmaps.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of software engineering experience and proven leadership across multiple domains.
• Deep expertise in domain-driven design, API design, SOA, and event-driven architectures.
• Active, high-leverage AI fluency with daily use of AI tools and teams adopting AI.

Responsibilities

• Drive technical vision and architecture across Payroll, Scheduling, Time Tracking, and HR Management domains.
• Lead decomposition of core product systems into well-bounded services using domain-driven design and SOA.

Skills

Senior leadership

Domain-driven design

API design

AI fluency

Distributed systems

SOA

Mentoring engineers

Communication

Influencing without authority

Technical strategy

Performance optimization

Test automation

Tools

Homebase API

Code generation tools

AI tools

Test automation tools

Job description

Homebase is seeking a senior engineering leader to drive technical vision and architecture across Payroll, Scheduling, Time Tracking, and HR Management domains. You will define an architecture scalable to 100K+ SMBs and steer internal API strategy for speed and external integrations.

You will decompose core product systems into bounded services using domain-driven design and SOA, mentor engineers, and partner with leadership on roadmaps.