Senior Platform Architect & Tech Lead

Terradepth; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Terradepth is seeking a Lead Principal Software Engineer, Lead to drive architecture and execution of the Absolute Ocean platform. You will remain hands-on in code while mentoring a high-performing team, guiding architectural tradeoffs, and delivering scalable geospatial data pipelines.

You will lead end-to-end platform design across cloud and on-prem environments, set coding standards, and push for high reliability and security compliance as the company scales.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, ideally within high-growth SaaS environments.
• Strong full-stack or heavy backend/data expertise utilizing AWS, Python, Go, React, PostgreSQL, and Swagger/OpenAPI.
• Deep experience defining and building event-based microservice architectures within containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Demonstrated experience as a technical lead, architect, or player-coach responsible for mentoring developers and driving core system designs.

Responsibilities

• Actively code and build across the full stack, implementing front-end interfaces, back-end microservices, APIs, and the core data pipelines for geospatial and bathymetric processing.
• Deliver robust, high-impact code and lead by example to ensure on-time, predictable software commitments tied directly to business goals.
• Architect and drive the technical design of the end-to-end Absolute Ocean (AO) SaaS platform across public cloud, private cloud, and on-premises environments ensuring high reliability, scalability, and performance.
• Mentor and develop a world-class team of software engineers, conducting comprehensive code reviews and guiding collaborative design alignment.

Job description

Terradepth is seeking a Lead Principal Software Engineer, Lead to drive architecture and execution of the Absolute Ocean platform. You will remain hands-on in code while mentoring a high-performing team, guiding architectural tradeoffs, and delivering scalable geospatial data pipelines.

You will lead end-to-end platform design across cloud and on-prem environments, set coding standards, and push for high reliability and security compliance as the company scales.