Technical Architect

Photon; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Photon is seeking a Technical Architect to lead mobile native (Swift/Kotlin/Flutter) and web architectures, define strategies, and drive scalable, secure solutions across platforms.

You will mentor teams, govern design systems, oversee CI/CD, and collaborate with product, UX, QA, and DevOps to deliver enterprise-grade applications.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience.
• 5+ years in Architect/Lead Architect roles.
• Experience architecting large-scale Mobile and Web applications.
• Strong expertise in Native iOS, Android, and modern Web platforms.

Responsibilities

• Define architecture and technical strategy for iOS, Android, Flutter, and Web applications.
• Design scalable, secure, and high-performance solutions across mobile, web, APIs, and cloud platforms.
• Lead architecture reviews, technical governance, and best practice adoption.
• Drive implementation of design systems, reusable components, and modern application architectures.
• Collaborate with Product, UX, Engineering, QA, and DevOps teams to deliver enterprise solutions.

Skills

Mobile architecture

Web architecture

Leadership

Observability practices

API & microservices

Cross-functional collaboration

Architect/Lead experience

Tools

Kafka

Next.js

React

TypeScript

Design systems

CI/CD

Job description

Technical Architect - Mobile (Native) & Web

Key Responsibilities

• Define architecture and technical strategy for iOS, Android, Flutter, and Web applications.
• Design scalable, secure, and high-performance solutions across mobile, web, APIs, and cloud platforms.
• Lead architecture reviews, technical governance, and best practice adoption.
• Drive implementation of design systems, reusable components, and modern application architectures.
• Collaborate with Product, UX, Engineering, QA, and DevOps teams to deliver enterprise solutions.
• Define integration patterns for APIs, microservices, authentication, messaging platforms, and third-party integrations.
• Mentor development teams and provide technical leadership across projects.
• Lead performance optimization, observability, release management, and CI/CD initiatives.

Technical Expertise

• Mobile: Swift, SwiftUI, Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, Flutter, Dart, Native iOS & Android Architecture, SDUI, Atomic Design
• Web: React.js, Next.js, Angular, TypeScript, React Architecture, Reusable Component Libraries, Design Systems, Responsive & Component-Based Architecture
• Engineering Practices: Performance Optimization, Security, Observability, Agile Delivery

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience.
• 5+ years in Architect/Lead Architect roles.
• Experience architecting large-scale Mobile and Web applications.
• Strong expertise in Native iOS, Android, and modern Web platforms.
• Experience with Flutter and cross-platform mobile development.
• Hands-on experience with Kafka and Event-Driven Architectures.
• Experience with Next.js, React Architecture, and reusable component libraries/design systems.
• Experience with cloud-native, API-driven, and microservices architectures.
• Strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience implementing Server-Driven UI (SDUI) and Design Systems.
• Experience with BFF (Backend for Frontend) and Micro Frontends.
• Familiarity with Datadog, Dynatrace, New Relic, Splunk, or similar observability tools.
• Experience with Feature Flags, Infrastructure as Code, and cloud modernization initiatives.