Staff AI Platform Engineer — Architecture Lead (Remote)

Uptempo; Louisville (CO); Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Uptempo is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to set the technical direction for the engineering team. You will define how we build and establish the standard for AI-native development, serving as the senior technical voice in product and architectural decisions.

You will collaborate with the Director of Engineering, Product leadership, and every engineer to design scalable systems that enable 10x velocity through well-architected AI agent pipelines and strategic technical decisions.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience with at least 2–3 years in Staff/Principal level scope
• Led architecture of a platform or product with significant usage and tradeoffs informed decisions
• Deep expertise in distributed systems or data-intensive SaaS platforms
• Designed agent pipelines, production-scale model context handling, and evaluation frameworks
• Communicate through RFCs/ADRs and translate tech strategy into business outcomes
• Experience building public APIs and integrating public consumption
• Familiar with AWS, Java, and TS/React/Angular tech stack

Responsibilities

• Own major architectural decisions across the platform, including multi-tenancy, data modeling, API design, and scalability
• Design and operate an AI-assisted development system with agent orchestration, task decomposition, output evaluation, and QA pipelines
• Define engineering standards: code reviews, observability, deployment practices, and AI-delegation boundaries
• Uplift the team through pairing, design reviews, RFCs, and mentorship; help raise hiring bar
• Serve as the senior technical voice in product planning, translating customer problems into architectural approaches

Skills

Distributed systems

Data-intensive applications

Multi-tenant SaaS platforms

AI agent pipelines design

Model context windows at production

Evaluation frameworks for AI

RFCs/ADRs for engineers

Public API design

Team collaboration/leadership

Brownfield development

Tools

AWS

Java

TypeScript with React/Angular

Job description

Uptempo is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to set the technical direction for the engineering team. You will define how we build and establish the standard for AI-native development, serving as the senior technical voice in product and architectural decisions.

You will collaborate with the Director of Engineering, Product leadership, and every engineer to design scalable systems that enable 10x velocity through well-architected AI agent pipelines and strategic technical decisions.