Senior Software Architect & Team Lead — Remote

LanguageWire; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work option (FlexiWire@home)

Private health insurance

International company culture

Office presence in multiple cities

Job summary

LanguageWire Ltd is seeking a Senior Software Architect to set technical direction, lead through influence, and drive architecture decisions across the company. You will work with senior engineers and engineering leaders across teams and locations, shaping how we design, build, and evolve our platform.

You will be part of the Technical Enablement Team and collaborate with the Director of Engineering to define a global reference architecture.

Qualifications

• Proven experience developing complex software solutions and delivering high-quality software systems, preferably SaaS services.
• Proven architecture design & documentation experience.
• Proventrack recordof re-architecting existing systems in a successful way.
• Excellent knowledge of modern programming languages like C#, Python, Java.
• Deep experience with REST APIs and documentation of REST endpoints.
• Experience with Cloud Native development and microservices architectures.
• DevOps experience: CI / CD, automated pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, Containerization, Kubernetes.
• Ability to drive change and influence without authority.
• Excellent presentation and data visualization skills. You’re comfortable reporting and presenting to senior leadership as well as to development teams.
• Fluent English (reading, writing, speaking).

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve company-wide architecture and technology vision.
• Establish architectural principles, standards, and reusable building blocks.
• Drive adoption of standards across teams through collaboration not mandate.
• Act as a key contributor to global reference architecture initiatives.
• Guide and mentor 50+ engineers across multiple teams and tribes.
• Support senior developers and tech leads in architectural trade-offs.
• Act as a trusted advisor for cross-team initiatives.
• Influence change without formal authority.
• Ensure successful execution of large cross-team technical initiatives.
• Improve platform scalability, stability, and maintainability.
• Define pragmatic governance where needed without slowing teams down.
• Assess technical and leadership skills of senior engineers.
• Advise on learning, development, and training needs.
• Support hiring of senior technical roles in collaboration with People & Culture.

Skills

Software architecture

Architecture direction

C#

Python

Java

REST APIs

Cloud native

Microservices

CI/CD

Kubernetes

Change leadership

Presentations/data viz

Fluent English

Tools

Docker

Infrastructure as Code

Terraform

Job description

LanguageWire Ltd is seeking a Senior Software Architect to set technical direction, lead through influence, and drive architecture decisions across the company. You will work with senior engineers and engineering leaders across teams and locations, shaping how we design, build, and evolve our platform.

You will be part of the Technical Enablement Team and collaborate with the Director of Engineering to define a global reference architecture.