Senior Platform Architect, AI-Driven Legal Tech

Onit; United States; On-site; USD 156,000 - 216,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

401(k) with match

Flexible PTO

Family leave

Life & disability insurance

Voluntary benefits

HSA/FSAs

Volunteer day

Job summary

Onit is redefining legal operations with an AI-centric platform. We seek an Architect to drive the technical architecture for the OnitX AppBuilder and related products, leading front-end and back-end direction while mentoring engineers.

The role focuses on scalable, secure systems in a Rails/React stack deployed on AWS, with emphasis on automated testing, governance, and architectural excellence across teams.

Qualifications

• 12–15+ years of software engineering and system architecture experience.
• Strong expertise in Ruby on Rails, React, and distributed systems.
• Experience with PostgreSQL, AWS, CI/CD, Docker and Kubernetes.
• Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve the overall system architecture for the platform.
• Establish architecture standards, design principles, and best practices.
• Lead design reviews and technical governance for major initiatives.
• Drive adoption of modern architectural patterns (microservices, event-driven, API-first).
• Ensure security, compliance, and data privacy across systems.
• Provide technical leadership across multiple teams and mentor engineers.
• Collaborate with DevOps/SRE for efficient deployment and operations.
• Influence engineering culture and drive velocity and performance.

Skills

Ruby on Rails

React

Distributed systems

Microservices

PostgreSQL

AWS

CI/CD

Docker

Kubernetes

Education

Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science/Software Engineering

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Rails (Ruby on Rails)

PostgreSQL

Job description

Onit is redefining legal operations with an AI-centric platform. We seek an Architect to drive the technical architecture for the OnitX AppBuilder and related products, leading front-end and back-end direction while mentoring engineers.

The role focuses on scalable, secure systems in a Rails/React stack deployed on AWS, with emphasis on automated testing, governance, and architectural excellence across teams.