Solutions Architect - Ship Fast, Scale Microservices

Strategic Advantage; Federal Way (WA); On-site; USD 64,000 - 97,000; Full time

Job summary

Strategic Advantage in Federal Way, WA is seeking a Solutions Architect who can explain Tailwind CSS to a skeptic and still ship by Friday. You’ll trade mentoring and 1 year of experience for a $64,000–$97,000 salary with a clear growth ladder.

You’ll tackle legacy Tailwind CSS modules, optimize performance, and translate product wishes into shippable PostgreSQL services, while building Nginx dashboards and helping the team measure real outcomes at scale.

Qualifications

• Proven track record delivering results as a junior Solutions Architect.
• Hands-on technology experience that holds up to follow-up questions.
• The grit to debug at 4pm on a Friday without complaint.
• Proven follow-through, measured in shipped things rather than good intentions.
• Strong time-management skills and a bias toward action.
• Working familiarity with full-time schedules and team norms at Strategic Advantage.

Responsibilities

• Reach into legacy Tailwind CSS modules and leave them cleaner than you found them.
• Optimize application performance, latency, and resource utilization at scale.
• Translate fuzzy product wishes from Strategic Advantage stakeholders into shippable PostgreSQL services.
• Build Nginx dashboards so Strategic Advantage's technology team stops asking engineers for numbers.
• Land Microservices performance wins Strategic Advantage can measure in WA retention numbers.
• Walk technology stakeholders through Flask tradeoffs in language Strategic Advantage execs grasp.
• Harden Strategic Advantage's Nginx auth so the WA audit comes back clean.
• Sketch Mentoring sequence diagrams that make the technology flow obvious to everyone.

Skills

Tailwind CSS

Solution architecture

PostgreSQL

Nginx

Flask

Microservices

Job description

Strategic Advantage in Federal Way, WA is seeking a Solutions Architect who can explain Tailwind CSS to a skeptic and still ship by Friday. You’ll trade mentoring and 1 year of experience for a $64,000–$97,000 salary with a clear growth ladder.

You’ll tackle legacy Tailwind CSS modules, optimize performance, and translate product wishes into shippable PostgreSQL services, while building Nginx dashboards and helping the team measure real outcomes at scale.