Staff Engineer – Application Architect

Facility Grid; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

High autonomy in a key role

Modern infrastructure stack

Opportunity to shape engineering practices

Job summary

A leading SaaS company is seeking a Staff Engineer to architect their application platform. The ideal candidate has over 8 years of experience with deep PHP/Laravel expertise and strong Angular skills. Responsibilities include owning application architecture, driving API design, and mentoring engineers. This hands-on leadership role offers high autonomy and influence on technical direction. Join to shape the future of a growing SaaS platform in the construction and facilities management space.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Deep expertise in PHP/Laravel with understanding of framework internals.
• Proven track record of designing application architectures at scale.

Responsibilities

• Own the application architecture across backend and frontend.
• Drive API design decisions and establish coding standards.
• Mentor mid-level and senior engineers through code reviews.

Skills

PHP/Laravel expertise

Angular or TypeScript frameworks

RESTful API design

Containerized deployments (Docker, ECS, or Kubernetes)

Strong written communication

Job description

We are seeking a Staff Engineer to serve as the application architect for FacilityGrid’s SaaS platform. This role owns the technical direction of our application layer — a PHP/Laravel backend, an Angular/TypeScript frontend, and supporting microservices — while maintaining working familiarity with the underlying cloud infrastructure and deployment platform. You will be the technical decision-maker for how our application systems evolve, ensuring architectural coherence across a growing codebase and team.

FacilityGrid is an AI‑first company. We expect every team member to actively leverage AI‑based tooling to work faster and solve problems more effectively. Candidates who already incorporate AI into their development workflow will stand out.

This is a hands‑on leadership role. You will write code, review designs, mentor engineers, and drive the technical strategy that enables FacilityGrid to scale its construction and facilities management platform.

Key Responsibilities

Architecture & Technical Leadership

• Own the application architecture across backend, frontend, and service layers
• Evolve and maintain the layered patterns and conventions that govern the codebase
• Drive API design decisions across versioned REST endpoints
• Author and maintain Technical Design Documents for significant system changes
• Evaluate build‑vs‑buy decisions and technology adoption proposals
• Establish and enforce coding standards, testing strategies, and review practices

Application Development

• Contribute production code in PHP/Laravel and TypeScript/Angular
• Design data models, migrations, and schema evolution strategies
• Architect integration patterns for external platforms and third‑party APIs
• Design frontend state management and data‑intensive UI patterns
• Optimize application performance across the full stack (caching, queues, CDN)
• Collaborate with platform engineering on deployment architecture and container orchestration
• Understand containerized build and CI/CD pipelines well enough to troubleshoot application‑layer issues
• Participate in infrastructure design reviews involving GitOps workflows and infrastructure‑as‑code
• Contribute to observability strategy and application‑level instrumentation
• Mentor mid‑level and senior engineers through code review, pairing, and design discussions
• Raise the technical bar across the engineering organization
• Translate business requirements into technical roadmaps and decomposed deliverables
• Bridge communication between product, engineering, and infrastructure teams

Qualifications

Required

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Deep expertise in PHP/Laravel — you understand the framework internals, not just the API surface
• Strong experience with Angular or comparable TypeScript SPA frameworks
• Proven track record of designing and evolving application architectures at scale across multiple teams
• Experience with relational database design, query optimization, and migration management
• Familiarity with RESTful API design, OAuth2 authentication flows, and multi‑tenant SaaS patterns
• Experience with containerized deployments (Docker, ECS, or Kubernetes)
• Strong written communication — you can author clear technical design documents and ADRs
• Willingness to use AI-based development tools as a core part of your workflow

Preferred

• Experience with construction, facilities management, or field‑service SaaS domains
• Familiarity with construction management platform integrations (e.g., Procore)
• Experience with GitOps workflows and infrastructure‑as‑code tooling
• Background with RBAC systems and enterprise SSO/SCIM provisioning
• Experience with observability platforms and distributed tracing
• Experience leading large‑scale platform migrations — merging separate applications, consolidating data models, or unifying multiple systems onto a single platform
• Systems thinking — you see how changes ripple across layers and teams
• Pragmatic decision‑making — you choose the right level of abstraction, not the most clever one
• Strong ownership — you drive outcomes, not just write code
• Effective communicator across technical and non‑technical audiences
• Continuous improvement mindset with a bias toward simplicity

Why Join Us

• Define the technical direction of a growing SaaS platform in the construction/facilities space
• High‑autonomy, high‑impact role with direct influence on architecture and engineering culture
• Modern infrastructure stack with investment in developer experience and automation
• Opportunity to shape engineering practices and team growth from a senior technical position