Senior Backend Architect & Tech Lead (Remote)

Jobgether; United States; On-site; USD 147,000 - 199,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical plans

Dental & Vision

401(k) with matching

Flexible work arrangements

Paid time off & holidays

Fully remote environment

Job summary

Jobgether seeks a Principal Software Engineer (Back End) in the United States, a fully remote senior technical leader crafting modern software engineering practices across a large organization. You will shape architecture, deliver scalable web applications, and mentor engineers while collaborating with product managers, designers, and executives to drive measurable value.

This role emphasizes leadership, architectural direction, and hands-on development across the tech stack, with a strong focus

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience, combined with approximately 10+ years of relevant software engineering experience.
• Demonstrated success leading large-scale technical initiatives and delivering multiple production-ready applications in complex environments.
• Deep expertise in modern web development, including React and/or Angular, JavaScript/TypeScript, web platform APIs, CSS architecture, responsive design, and cross-browser compatibility.
• Strong knowledge of frontend architecture and engineering practices, including build tooling, bundling, deployment pipelines, component libraries, design systems, and shared infrastructure.
• Practical experience with accessibility standards such as WCAG 2.1 AA and Section 508, including accessibility linting and automated validation within CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong understanding of automated testing approaches, including unit, component, and end-to-end testing using technologies such as Jest, Vitest, React Testing Library, Angular Testing Library, Playwright, Cypress, or similar tools.
• Experience with web performance optimization, Core Web Vitals, frontend monitoring, CDN strategies, asset optimization, progressive enhancement, and cloud-based application deployment.
• Knowledge of REST and/or GraphQL API integration, state management, asynchronous data handling, and backend service integration.
• Experience establishing CI/CD pipelines incorporating automated testing, accessibility checks, and code-quality controls.
• Strong product mindset with the ability to translate user needs and business requirements into practical, accessible, and technically sound solutions.
• Excellent communication and executive presence, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to engineers, designers, product leaders, executives, and external stakeholders.
• Proven ability to mentor engineers, influence technical culture, establish engineering standards, and lead without relying solely on formal authority.
• Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities and make pragmatic technical and business trade-offs.
• Must be a U.S. citizen and able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust 6C clearance.
• Ability to work remotely with approximately 0–10% business travel.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the strategic direction for modern software engineering practices, architecture, tooling, and technical capabilities across the organization.
• Lead the design and delivery of production-ready, scalable, accessible, and high-performance web applications, with a strong focus on customer experience.
• Serve as a technical authority on engineering architecture, development standards, code quality, testing, performance optimization, accessibility, and deployment practices.
• Design and implement modern application architectures, development pipelines, deployment infrastructure, component libraries, design systems, and shared engineering capabilities.
• Partner with product managers and designers to balance user needs, business priorities, technical constraints, and implementation effort while delivering measurable value.
• Modernize technology stacks and identify opportunities to improve developer productivity, application quality, engineering velocity, and operational efficiency.
• Establish and champion best practices covering responsive design, accessibility, automated testing, performance optimization, CI/CD, and code quality.
• Lead large-scale technical initiatives from strategy through production, influencing architectural decisions and outcomes across multiple teams.
• Work across the technology stack when required to solve complex problems end-to-end and integrate frontend applications with backend services and APIs.
• Mentor and coach engineers at different levels, helping establish career development pathways and strengthening organizational engineering capabilities.
• Act as a strategic advisor to engineering, product, design, and executive stakeholders, clearly communicating complex technical concepts and strategic priorities.

Skills

React/Angular

JavaScript/TypeScript

Web APIs

CSS Architecture

CI/CD tooling

REST/GraphQL

Testing (Jest, Playwright, etc.)

Mentoring/Leadership

Communication with executives

6C clearance prep

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Jest

Vitest

Playwright

Cypress

React Testing Library

Angular Testing Library

Job description

Jobgether seeks a Principal Software Engineer (Back End) in the United States, a fully remote senior technical leader crafting modern software engineering practices across a large organization. You will shape architecture, deliver scalable web applications, and mentor engineers while collaborating with product managers, designers, and executives to drive measurable value.

This role emphasizes leadership, architectural direction, and hands-on development across the tech stack, with a strong focus