Senior Backend Architect – Order Management & Integrations

Factor Eleven; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Factor Eleven seeks a Senior Backend Architect to own the Order Management backend in a greenfield system. You will design the order lifecycle, document generation, contract library, and DocuSign or similar integrations.

You’ll set technical direction, craft scalable patterns, and guide engineers in a fast-paced environment. Partnering with Product and Engineering, you translate complex business and legal requirements into reliable services, prioritizing resilience, observability, and

Qualifications

• Extensive experience building and operating backend systems in production.
• Deep hands-on experience with event-driven architectures (Kafka).
• Strong Node.js backend expertise, including asynchronous programming.
• Experience with idempotency, event sourcing, and state machines.
• Ability to define technical direction in ambiguous, greenfield environments.
• Familiarity with compliance-sensitive domains like contracts or e-signature platforms is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own the Order Management backend architecture and lifecycle.
• Design and implement cross-system integrations (planning tools, DocuSign).
• Define architectural direction and patterns; review proposals.
• Drive reliability, observability, and production readiness.
• Collaborate with Product and Engineering to translate business requirements.

Skills

Node.js

Event-driven architecture

Kafka

Distributed systems

Backend architecture

Design docs/RFCs

DocuSign integrations

Tools

DocuSign

Microservices

Job description

Factor Eleven seeks a Senior Backend Architect to own the Order Management backend in a greenfield system. You will design the order lifecycle, document generation, contract library, and DocuSign or similar integrations.

You’ll set technical direction, craft scalable patterns, and guide engineers in a fast-paced environment. Partnering with Product and Engineering, you translate complex business and legal requirements into reliable services, prioritizing resilience, observability, and